Saturday’s game: Can Nolasco put an end to skid?

(Posted by Ted Hutton) Running out of adjectives and adverbs to describe what is happening to the Marlins — slumping, skidding, struggling — no, we need something stronger. Hapless, woeful, awful, terrible, disastrous, delirious, demented. They’ve fallen off a cliff, imploded, exploded, run into a wall, caved in, crashed and burned. They’ve been crumpled, smashed, squashed, trampled, beaten, battered, hammered. It’s a train wreck, it’s Armageddon, it’s Waterloo, it’s all over. On the bump Saturday is Ricky Nolasco, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of late. Nolasco seemed pretty calm Friday, chatting on his phone while soaking up the ambiance of Tropicana Field… - - Nolasco (4-2, 4.23) is 0-1 with a 6.06 ERA in his last three starts, which gives you some idea of what has been going on. He is coming off that start against the D-Backs where he gave up nine funs on eight hits in three innings. Four of those runs were unearned, which ...