--Considering they played their first game Friday in Land Shark Stadium, Marlins players had one question: Where's the beer?
"We thought there would be some free Land Shark in the clubhouse," C John Baker said. The former Dolphin Stadium was renamed after singer Jimmy Buffet's Land Shark Lager.
--With their loss Thursday, the Marlins fell to 17-18 -- their first losing record since they were 1-2 on April 2, 2008.
"We're not really pretty to watch right now," Gonzalez said after the Marlins finished a 2-4 trip by suffering their first three-game sweep in Milwaukee since 1998.
--Manager Fredi Gonzalez said he came across a video of the Marlins' worst loss of the 2008 season -- 18-17 at Coors Field on July 4. "I couldn't watch past the sixth inning," he said with a laugh.
BY THE NUMBERS: 20 -- Consecutive games a starter went without recording a win, a club-record streak that ended May 8 in Denver when RHP Ricky Nolasco, a 15-game winner last year, pitched six innings for his first win since opening day. Before Nolasco notched the win, Anibal Sanchez had the last win by a Marlins starter back on April 16, four weeks and one day before Nolasco's win.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "I just remember Todd Helton saying, 'Hey, you're not going to say hello?' And I started laughing. I made sure to say hello to him the next time I got on." -- Chris Coghlan, on his first big league hit in the fifth inning Friday at Coors Field. Coghlan singled again in the eighth inning.
