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MIAMI -- It is getting to be too late for the Miami Marlins.The Marlins lost to the Washington Nationals on Wednesday night, and Miamis chances of making the National League playoffs as a wild-card team decreased.Mind you, projections entering the week gave Miami a 0.7 percent chance at making the postseason. So it was already bleak for the Marlins. Now its worse.With 10 games to play, Miami (76-76) sits four games behind the three teams that share the two NL wild-card positions, the Cardinals, Giants and Mets. St. Louis, San Francisco and New York are all 80-72.The good news for the Marlins -- seemingly at least -- is that the Atlanta Braves (61-91) arrive on Thursday to start a four-game series.And while it is true that the Braves have been awful overall this season, Atlanta just swept the Mets in three games at New York. And, before that, the Braves took a series from the Nationals.Marlins manager Don Mattingly, though, said to can forget what just happened or what happened earlier in the season.That (Braves) series (with New York) is over, Mattingly said Wednesday. They have to come here and play. We have to play tomorrow night. Its going to be who plays better tomorrow.Momentum at this point is really just that day and your pitcher that night. What theyve been doing or what weve been doing, and weve been playing well, doesnt really matter.Its going to be Jose (Urena) tomorrow going out and keeping us in the game early and seeing if we can put some runs on the board and win a game.Still, Atlanta has given Miami fits all year. The Braves swept the Marlins at Miami in April and took two out of three from the Marlins in May.The teams split two- and four-game series in June and July. Miami finally got the better of the Braves, winning two of three at Atlanta earlier this month. However, Miami has yet to take a 2016 series from the Braves at Marlins Park.To accomplish the feat, the Marlins would love a solid start from Urena, who has been wildly inconsistent this season.Urena (4-7, 5.59 ERA) gave up seven runs in two innings in his most recent start, Saturday at Philadelphia. However, in his previous start, he went 8 2/3 innings and did not allow a run against the Los Angeles Dodgers.Perhaps Urena, 25, is tired since -- counting his minor league work -- he is at 124 innings this season. He finished at 131 innings last year.,Atlanta will start right-hander Josh Collmenter, who was acquired from the Chicago Cubs organization on Sept. 14. Collmenter (2-0, 4.61 ERA) beat the Washington Nationals in his Braves debut on Saturday, allowing two runs in five innings. 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The 17-year-old native of Marystown, N.L., pulled out of Skate Canada International last month in Saint John, N.B., with the same problem. Ravindra Jadeja seems as relatable a cricketer as there has ever been. Skills wise.His left-arm spin has the mystery of a novel with the ending on the front cover, and his batting is hidden under a secret flap in the coaching manual so no professional will ever find it. Jadeja could have been you or me. It may well be this thought that spurs the critics. What is so special about this fellow that he is playing for India?Jadeja punched Chris Woakes, Englands fastest bowler, through cover for his first boundary in Mohali on Monday. Think about what happens when we play that shot against our buddies trundling in at 50kph.Still, the fact that he is paid to play the sport at the highest level demands a bit more scrutiny than those doing it to avoid homework. And for a man who has three first-class triple-centuries, the kind of shot-a-ball batting he has indulged in all his career has been jarring. In those moments, he was worse than you or me. We wouldnt waste opportunities like that.In Indias first innings at Mohali, Jadeja faced the most balls he has ever done in a Test. He top-scored for India for the first time ever. He fell 10 short of a hundred his team-mates would have so cherished.Two months ago, Virat Kohli delayed his declaration in the second innings against New Zealand in Kanpur so Jadeja would get a fifty. Indias captain insisted his allrounder perform the Rajputana sword dance and only then walk off the field. On Monday, the celebration was prefaced with a look to the heavens and a clenching of his fist and it ended with the bat coming up towards his face in a salaam. The first part of this routine was for himself. The flamboyance and gratitude was for his friends.This wasnt like Lords in 2014, when Jadeja had come out with nothing to lose and everything to gain. Here, India had been coasting, then they lost three wickets for eight runs. Considering they had to bat last, they needed to score as many runs as they could now.That meant Jadeja had to behave like a proper batsman. He had to see off the good balls. Heck, he even had to tackle the (second) new ball. He was at the crease for 60 overs, weathering bouncers, standing up to reverse swing, putting on the Tests biggest paartnership with R Ashwin and giving India an invaluable lead.dddddddddddd It was international crickets glimpse into the Jadeja that his domestic team Saurashtra have always known.The stance is simple. There is no premeditated movement. He allows himself a tucking of the right shoulder under his chin and then he is ready. In this innings, unlike previous times when he has looked appropriate to his position of No. 8, he played the ball late and trusted that if he lasted long enough he would get the runs his side needed. His 90 off 170 balls was as good an innings by an India lower-order batsman as there has ever been.Having realised that, England went to Plan B and tried drying up the runs with a 7-2 off-side field. There was a gully, two short covers and a mid-off in a straight line pointing to the sightscreen behind Jadeja. All of them turned in unison to watch a spanking on-drive for four. He found a tiny gap off a cut shot, between gully and point; then produced an encore of the on-drive and finally wrapped the over up with a down-the-track whack through vacant midwicket. The Code of Conduct doesnt allow a batsman to walk up and laugh in the oppositions face. Trust Jadeja to find the loophole.It was an overs worth of fun for ages and ages of restraint, indulged only after India had pulled ahead of England by 80 runs. That is how he thinks: team first. He can bowl endlessly if asked. He fields like few Indians ever have. Hes learning to bat better. Wonder what would happen if he is tasked to make sure Mohali has a full house for Test matches.Jadeja could have been you or me. His idea of a romantic date is a candlelit dinner in Paris. Weve had those same fantasies. He has a lot of experience with, ahem, colourful advice coming to him from all sides whilst bowling. Same as us in gully cricket. We can bowl a good-length ball too. Just that he can bowl it for overs at a time. We can dance down and hit over the top too. He does it knowing the vilification that awaits a mistake. We can be Jadeja, if only we can put in the years and years of hard work he has. ' ' '