--3B Emilio Bonifacio is the common denominator in Florida's first 4-0 start in franchise history. He has scored a major league-leading nine runs over the four games and is batting .579 (11 for 19).
"If he doesn't get any better," manager Fredi Gonzalez joked, "we're going to send him to (Class AAA) New Orleans." Bonifacio's fast start over the Marlins' first three games -- eight hits, six runs, a home run and 4 RBI -- is the best start over the first three games of a season since Wade Boggs in 1994, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Boggs had nine hits and seven runs scored.
--The Marlins had their first of two early off days Thursday (they're off again Monday), which is allowing them to open the season with a four-man rotation. RHP Anibal Sanchez, the No. 4 starter, made his debut Friday against the Mets before No. 1 starter RHP Ricky Nolasco and RHP Josh Johnson pitch the next two games.
LHP Andrew Miller, the No. 5 starter, will make his first start April 15. Miller's last day of availability from the bullpen will be Saturday.
--RHP Matt Lindstrom has a familiar landlord -- Nationals LHP Scott Olsen. Lindstrom is renting Olsen's condo in South Florida this season while Olsen plays his first season for Washington.
Olsen is rooming with Lindstrom this week during the Nationals' series in Miami.
"He's my landlord. Isn't that weird?" Lindstrom said.
"I'm pretty much paying for his mortgage so he doesn't have to during the season, but he's not really making any money off of it. Plus he knows I keep stuff nice."
BY THE NUMBERS: 46 -- Errors committed by the Marlins this spring, more than any NL team.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "You can't hear people in the stands. You can't hear the advertisements going around. It gets you fired up." -- Right-hander Matt Lindstrom, Florida's new closer, on his introduction song: "Into the Fire" by the rock band Disturbed.
