Wes Helms Gets Off When You Fight

On Wednesday, a shouting match between Hanley Ramirez and Dan Uggla seemed to foretell the 2009 collapse of the Florida Marlins. The clubhouse was imploding along with the team's slim wild card hopes—just as Wes Helms had planned Well, not really. But Helms did hit a walk off homer last night to beat the Braves 8-7. And afterward, he credited the altercation between Uggla and Ramirez as the emotional prod the Marlins needed to stay alive: "It's like us and kids," Helms told the Sentinel. "We have to punish them and two minutes later they're hugging us. It's part of team chemistry. It's like my wife and I say all the time, if you love something you're going to fight." The "fight" Helms is alluding to began when the slumping Ramirez asked to be pulled from Tuesday night's rain delay so that he could, in Uggla's contention, maintain his NL best .350 batting average (Uggla also complains that Hanley does not try hard en...