Florida Marlins Random Plate Appearance: Kevin Gregg’s Big Scare

The year was 2007, and the iPhone was in its first iteration, Prince played the Super Bowl, and 300 was in the theaters.

The Florida Marlins were four years removed from their second World Series title, and had already suffered through three (of eventually six) fire sales. In today’s article, another (almost) Random Plate Appearance piece, I selected a season and a game of that season at random. I then dug into the box score to find the most impactful plate appearance of the game.

This series isn’t as much about a single plate appearance in a long season, it’s more about how that version of the Florida Marlins, and later the Miami Marlins, had you living and dying on every pitch. In 2007, we…