November 13
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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Marlins shortstop Hanley Ramirez can now use his Silver Slugger Awards as bookends. Thursday, Ramirez garnered his second for being the National League's best offensive shortstop as voted on by managers and coaches. He is the franchise's third two-time Silver Slugger recipient, joining Gary Sheffield (1993, 1996) and Miguel Cabrera, who won his first as an outfielder in 2005 and added another the following season as a third baseman. The only other Marlin to win a Silver Slugger was third baseman Mike Lowell in 2003. Shifting from leadoff to third in the batting order, Ramirez won the NL batting title (.342) and set career highs in RBI (106), on-base percentage (.410) and ..."
October 4
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By virtue of Albert Pujols going 0 for 4 Saturday and Hanley Ramirez going 1 for 2, the Marlins Get your Marlins Tickets now! will probably have their first batting champion. Ramirez, who entered the game 11 for his past 62, hit an RBI double in the first and lined out in the third before exiting with a right knee contusion suffered on a steal of third in the first inning. Ramirez raised his average to .342, 13 points ahead of Pujols. Pablo Sandoval began the day at .329. The Giant could finish 8 for 8 and still wouldn't catch Ramirez. "I know I was struggling, but I wasn't looking on the computer to see what they were hitting," Ramirez said. "I don't think I did it myself. Everybody gave ..."
September 9
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Hanley Ramirez and Cameron Maybin each hit a long two-run homer, and the Florida Marlins beat the New York Mets 4-2 on Tuesday night to keep up their surprising playoff push. Florida overcame an early exit by injured starter Rick VandenHurk and remained six games behind first-place Philadelphia in the NL East. The Marlins, who opened the season with a major league-low $37 million payroll, began the day 51/2 back of Colorado for the NL wild card. The Rockies hosted Cincinnati in a game that started later. Carlos Beltran returned to the Mets' lineup after missing 70 games and nearly hit a go-ahead grand slam in the seventh inning. His drive to right field was caught a step or two in front of ..."
August 30
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
columnist Ethan J. Skolnick
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Keith Hernandez did little pinch hitting during his illustrious career. Still, that didn't stop the Mets broadcaster from pinching a hitter two hours before Thursday's game. "Hey, batting champ," Hernandez said. "You got it." The unsuspecting Hanley Ramirez, who had been facing his locker, felt the tug at his shirt and turned his head. "Not yet," Ramirez said. "If I don't see you before it happens, congratulations," Hernandez said. Most South Florida sports fans haven't seen it while it's been happening, proven again by the anemic turnout for Thursday afternoon's 10-3 Marlins Get your Marlins Tickets now! loss. That's OK. That apathy hardly diminishes what Ramirez is accomplishing in his ..."
August 23
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Not to imply Hanley Ramirez alone has been carrying the Marlins Get your Marlins Tickets now! lately, but the way he's been swinging, if he doesn't solve the opposing pitcher, chances are his teammates aren't either. The Braves held Ramirez hitless in three at-bats, snapping his career-high hitting streak at 16, as they held off the Marlins 4-3 at Turner Field to even the three-game set. The Marlins totaled four hits and had one at-bat with the tying run in scoring position after making it a one-run game in the fifth. All the Braves scoring came in the first off starter Chris Volstad (9-10), who along with four relievers kept the Braves off the board the rest of the way. The Marlins did ..."
July 11
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The return of shortstop Hanley Ramirez was nearly overshadowed by the Marlins Get your Marlins Tickets now!' historic 10-run eighth inning that capped a wild 14-7 victory over the Diamondbacks early Friday morning. But not by his teammates, who marveled at his key at-bat in the marathon frame. Down 7-4 with runners on first and second, Ramirez, who was making his first appearance since last Saturday because of a right hip flexor, worked the count full against Juan Gutierrez and then broke his bat on a foul. Because the NL batting leader (.348) wasn't sure he'd be called on, Ramirez only had one of his personalized bats in the dugout, so Brett Carroll tossed him one of his, a similar model. ..."
July 6
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The last time Josh Johnson pitched in an All-Star game was 2005. He struck out the side in his lone inning and got the win as the North beat South in the Double-A Southern League. If not for a three-hit, four-RBI performance from Jeremy Hermida, Johnson probably takes home the MVP trophy. Johnson is back among baseball's best, this time on a much grander stage. For the eighth time in nine years, the Marlins Get your Marlins Tickets now! will have multiple representatives at the All-Star Game. In addition to Hanley Ramirez, who will start at shortstop for the second consecutive season, Johnson will join him on the National League squad. Ramirez becomes the first NL shortstop to start ..."
July 3
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He'd already hit three grand slams. What a perfect time for a fourth, in the seventh inning Tuesday with two out and his team down a run. The thought never crossed his mind. With left-hander Joe Beimel on the mound nibbling over the outer half, Hanley Ramirez slapped a two-run single to right. "I don't think two or three years ago you would have seen that," Marlins Get your Marlins Tickets now! hitting coach Jim Presley said. "He stayed inside the ball and hit the ball hard the other way. … He's made up his mind, 'I'm going to drive these runs in,' and instead of trying to put the ball in the seats in left field, he's hitting the ball to right-center field. That's the difference." The ..."
June 15
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What should have been a festive post-game clubhouse after the Marlins Get your Marlins Tickets now! swept a three-game series from the Blue Jays on Sunday deteriorated over a disagreement regarding the unwritten rules of baseball. The usually jovial Fredi Gonzalez erupted at reporters when told superstar Hanley Ramirez was disappointed the Marlins didn't respond after he was hit by a pitch with a runner on third and two outs in sixth. His team leading 8-3, Ramirez took a Dirk Hayhurst fastball off the left elbow. Ramirez had no doubt it was intentional. "Everybody knows," Ramirez said, to a group of reporters at his locker. "I think Fredi knows it. [Josh Johnson] knows it. [Hayhurst] was ..."
May 31
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Four ice bags covered the right side of Hanley Ramirez's battered body as he sat in the winning clubhouse Saturday afternoon and played DJ on the Citi Field boom box. Carefully covered were his throwing arm and shoulder as well as the right hand that was plunked with a pitch a month ago at this same park and, of course, the troublesome right groin that tightened up Tuesday in Philadelphia. With Wes Helms battling flu-like symptoms and the Marlins Get your Marlins Tickets now! already short on middle infielders, the franchise shortstop ignored the fact he was perhaps 80 percent healthy and went 2 for 5 in playing his first full game in five days. "At first it felt like I'd been off the ..."
May 28
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An injured groin kept Marlins shortstop Hanley Ramirez out of the lineup for Wednesday night's series finale against the Phillies, but he doesn't believe the injury is serious enough to linger. Ramirez, who did no baseball activity before Wednesday's game, is hopeful he could return by Friday night in New York. "It feels better, but it's still a little tight," Ramirez said. "It's day to day. We'll see how it feels Friday after the day off. When I come to the stadium on Friday, we'll decide if I'm going to play." Marlins manager Fredi Gonzalez said his franchise player has been dealing with "sore legs" for the past week, dating to a doubleheader with Arizona on May 20. Team trainer Sean ..."
May 27
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No, this definitely was not the sight the Marlins Get your Marlins Tickets now! wanted to see on a chilly 52-degree night at Citizens Bank Park. Here was Hanley Ramirez, their franchise shortstop, summoning assistant trainer Mike Kozak from the dugout and pointing with a grimace toward his right leg. A short conversation ensued, and by the time manager Fredi Gonzalez reached his best player, the decision was made. Ramirez left Tuesday's game with a tight right groin with two outs in the bottom of the third inning. He may have injured his leg beating out an infield single in the top of the inning. And that was only the worst thing that happened to the Marlins in a 5-3 loss to the reigning ..."
May 20
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Hanley Ramirez initiated the scoring with a sixth-inning home run and the Florida Marlins Get your Marlins Tickets now! added one more in the sixth for a 2-0 lead over the Diamondbacks Tuesday. The way Josh Johnson was pitching, it felt like 12-0. The big right-hander had retired 11 in a row and 13 of 14 when his offense broke the stalemate. Johnson looked great through six, striking out six and pumping in 96-mile-per-hour fastballs to prove the early departure for his previous outing in Milwaukee was indeed precautionary. "No problems, didn't feel tired," Johnson said. That's about the extent of what went right for the Marlins in what deteriorated into a 5-3 loss at Land Shark Stadium. ..."
May 14
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Hanley Ramirez has hit safely in 10 straight with the last six of those being multi-hit games. The last Marlin to record at least two hits in six in a row was Dan Uggla from May 10-16, 2008. This is the third time Ramirez has done it. Fast start: Nine pitches into Braden Looper's outing, the Marlins Get your Marlins Tickets now! had a 3-0 lead, due in part to Chris Coghlan's first major league homer, a two-run shot to right-center. Looper gave up two more runs, including a John Baker solo homer, during the remainder of his six-inning outing. Not so fast: Ross Gload thought he had a two-run, pinch-hit homer in the sixth inning to make it a one-run game. Umpires reviewed the play and ..."
May 2
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The Marlins Get your Marlins Tickets now!, who led by four early, could not hold off the Cubs and give Graham Taylor (five innings, two runs) his first major league win. Penn replacement Burke Badenhop gave up a Ryan Theriot grand slam that sent the Cubs to the series-evening 8-6 win in the Wrigley Field matinee. Three batters earlier, Penn suffered a mild ankle sprain after giving up a single to right with a man on in the sixth. Penn broke for first and slipped when he attempted to change direction and head to third to back up. "I could have thrown, but [manager] Fredi [Gonzalez] said there's no need to push it and that was it," Penn said. "I can put a little weight on it." The 5-11, ..."
April 28
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Shortstop Hanley Ramirez took a John Maine pitch off the right hand in the first inning Monday and left the Marlins' first ever game at Citi Field. X-rays were negative and Ramirez was diagnosed with a soreness. He is day-to-day. Ramirez could not elude the 3-2 offering, the eighth pitch of the at-bat, with one out and one on. Maine's threw a 94 mile per hour fastball that bore in on Ramirez. He immediately dropped the bat and started jogging toward the Marlins' dugout. In spite of the Marlins' seven-game losing streak, Ramirez has been hitting well. He began the night having hit safely in his last eight games and a .333 clip (11 for 33), raising his average from .256 to .289."
March 27
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
columnist Dave Hyde
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Hanley Ramirez, the lone Marlin with five stars to his resume, walked through Thursday morning's clubhouse with a message written across his chest in Sharpie. "I'm sick of this s---," it read. He was serious. "I'm angry," he said. A quiet day of spring was turning loud. "I want to be traded," Ramirez soon said. No, he doesn't. Not really. And by the end of this column the temperature will cool down. But it's never good when your best player entered Thursday's game batting .091 for the spring and blamed it on some silly organizational decrees. For a while, Hanley vs. Marlins Get your Marlins Tickets now! sounded like The Mane Event of spring. Ramirez, see, used to wear his hair in cornrows. ..."
March 3
Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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Dominican World Baseball Classic manager Felipe Alou proposed the following solution to his shortstop dilemma: Write Hanley Ramirez's name on one side of the bed and Jose Reyes' on the other. "Whichever side I wake up on, that's who is going to play," Alou said. Alou's task of finding a spot for both All-Star shortstops began Monday, when his squad gathered on the Cardinals' side of the Roger Dean Stadium complex for its first workout. The Marlins Get your Marlins Tickets now! will face Ramirez and his countrymen this afternoon in an exhibition here. Even without Albert Pujols, the Dominican Republic is one of, if not, the WBC favorite. The infield features David Ortiz, Robinson Cano, Alex ..."