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Its gaudiness amazed the team and coaching staff, with one saying that "it's supposed to be larger than life". Some school's results have been altered by retroactive NCAA penalties. As a matter of policy, Sports Reference only reports the results of games as played on the field. "So we worked closely with baseball for an alternate venue. The best and only solution was to play the games in Seattle." Attendance was capped due to staffing issues, with only the lower seating bowl open for the series opener . Stanton won the NL Player of the Month Award for August, leading the major leagues with 18 home runs, 37 RBI, 28 runs scored and .899 slugging percentage.
The Hurricanes were led by second-year head coach Mark Richt and played their home games at Hard Rock Stadium. They finished the season 10–3 overall and 7–1 in the ACC to finish in first in the Coastal Division. They advanced to the ACC Championship Game where they lost to Clemson, 38–3. They were invited to the Orange Bowl where they lost to Wisconsin, 34–24.
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Homers by Cody Ross, Chris Coghlan and Giancarlo Stanton powered the Marlins to a 10-3 win in the opener before the series was clinched the following night on Dan Uggla's two-out walk-off single. The season marked the last season under Jeffrey Loria's ownership of the team as Loria agreed to sell the team to a group led by Derek Jeter for $1.2 billion.
On September 8, Ichiro became the sixth player all-time to hit 2,500 career singles, as well as the eighth right fielder of all-time to record over 4,000 putouts at the position. Stanton hit his 57th home run and drove in four runs on September 23 versus Arizona, giving him 125 on the season, and passing Preston Wilson's franchise record of 121 set in 2000. In spite of Stanton's historic season, ESPN ranked Marlins Park as one of the six most difficult stadiums in which to hit a home run in 2017.
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On August 26, Ichiro set the Marlins' single-season franchise record for pinch-hits with his 22nd pinch hit. On August 27, Stanton became the first player since Chris Davis in 2013 to hit 50 home runs in one season. Stanton also became the sixth player in history to reach 50 home runs before the end of August. In the August 29 game versus the Washington Nationals, he hit his 18th home run of the month, tying Rudy York for his record of home runs in August set in 1937. Rankings from AP PollThe 2017 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Miami during the 2017 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was the Hurricanes' 92nd season of football and 14th as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
The Marlins were scheduled to host the Mariners for a three-game weekend series, but the games were moved to Seattle because of a scheduling conflict at Sun Life Stadium. U2's 360° Tour was due to stop by South Florida on June 29, so the Marlins had to vacate to allow sufficient setup time. A COVID-19 outbreak following the 2020 season's opening weekend forced the Marlins to spend 23 days on the road for a 12-game trip.
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"We obviously couldn't play at home, because we don't control the stadium. For one final season, we are tenants. The Marlins lost two of three to the Brewers, who were chasing the Cubs in the National League Central. Brian Ellington and Dustin McGowan combined to allow eight runs in the eighth as the Crew broke open a 2-2 score. Justin Bour and Derek Dietrich drove in two apiece in Miami's 7-4 win in Game 2, but another eight-run inning propelled Milwaukee to the series win in the finale. "Marlins Park stood ready to host the games, but we all agreed that burdening public service resources was not the proper course of action," then-Marlins president David Samson said in a statement.
"Following Hurricane Irma, the Miami Marlins realize that all of our employees, as well as our entire community, have other needs that must take a priority at this time." This strange year aside, the Marlins have had to play "home" games outside South Florida a handful of times in their history. Before the season Diaz suggested rewarding defensive players who recover fumbles or interceptions. Jeweler AJ "King of Bling" Machado created the Turnover Chain—a 36-inch, 5-5 pound, 10-karat gold Cuban link necklace with a large "U" charm covered with orange and green sapphires—in August 2017.
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The club would go on to play just 26 games at Marlins Park compared with 34 away from Miami during a truncated 60-game season. In order to make up a week's worth of matchups, the Marlins played seven doubleheaders. The threat of Hurricane Ivan pushed the first two matchups of a four-game series against the National League East-rival Expos to the home of the American League Central White Sox.
Stanton hit the home run versus Ty Blach and had homered in five consecutive games, setting another franchise record. In a duration of 35 games through August 15, Stanton advanced in a historic run, producing 23 home runs, including in six games in a row. Only Sammy Sosa and Barry Bonds had ever hit more in a 35-game span. On June 25, Ichiro became the oldest player to start a game in center field since at least 1900, breaking the record previously held by Rickey Henderson. Ichiro singled twice on July 6 against the St. Louis Cardinals, bringing his hits total to 3,054 and surpassing Panamanian-born Rod Carew as the all-time leader in MLB hits among foreign-born players.
Vólquez threw 98 pitches, struck out 10 and walked two batters , facing the minimum number of batters. On June 14, outfielder Ichiro Suzuki singled for his 365th interleague hit, passing Derek Jeter to becoming the all-time leader in interleague hits. The two Major League clubs farthest away from each other -- 3,284.6 miles, to be exact -- battled it out in an Interleague matchup. Felix Hernandez stymied the Marlins in a 5-1 win in the opener before former Marlin Jason Vargas lost the middle game, 4-2. The Mariners won the rubber match, 2-1, when Steve Cishek threw a wild pitch during an attempted intentional walk in the 10th. "What happened was U2 had to reschedule for a year later, and the baseball schedule was such that there was no other way to have us at home that series," Samson told MLB.com.
Josh Beckett led the way in the opener, allowing two runs over seven innings in a 6-3 win in front of a crowd of 4,003. The following afternoon, Alex Gonzalez, Miguel Cabrera and Jeff Conine went deep in an 8-6 victory in front of 5,457. On June 3, Edinson Vólquez threw his first career no-hitter and the sixth in Marlins history, defeating the Arizona Diamondbacks, 3–0, at Marlins Park.
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