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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – With Giancarlo Stanton and Christian Yelich nursing injuries, Marcell Ozuna and Ichiro Suzuki have picked up the slack for the Miami Marlins, who open a three-game series against the host Atlanta Braves on Friday.
Ozuna leads the National League in hitting this month with a .426 average, while Suzuki has recorded 10 hits over his last five games to draw within 40 of 3,000 for his major-league career.
Miami, which won three of four against Tampa Bay thanks to a dominant 9-1 victory on Thursday, enters the weekend having captured seven of its last 12 games and will be eager to face the struggling Braves, who swept a three-game series in Miami from April 15-17.