Themiami”marlins”are good:o

Yes, “one of the strangest franchises” (NYT) in MLB is thirteen games over .500 on July 9th after 91 games (still 9.5 games behind ATL in NL East but only .002 out of the wild card position, from which they won their two World Seriouses) .

Completing our coverage of baseball for this millennium, Cincinnati’s Elly De La Cruz is filling seats and thrilling fans of paint drying with his derring-do on the base paths. Yesterday Elly singled, then stole second base, then third and then, when the spooked pitcher momentarily turned his back to gather himself, stole home.