Welcome to the big leagues, Marcell Ozuna.

Ozuna, a Miami Marlins rookie recently called up after Giancarlo Stanton's injury, has been hitting pretty well. But Tuesday night in the Marlins game against the San Diego Padres he had an embarrassing (and hilarious) rookie moment.

Will Venable hit a deep fly ball to right field. Ozuna started to track it. Then fear flashed across his face. He couldn't find it. He started to wave his arms. When the ball never dropped to the ground, he just looked confused. With good reason: It was actually a home run.

This is why the New York Mets can't have nice things!

Gary Green, a lifelong Mets fan who also happens to be CEO of the Class AAA Omaha Storm Chasers, got a chance to throw a ceremonial first pitch Tuesday night before right-hander Matt Harvey went to work on the White Sox at Citi Field.

As Bob Uecker's character in "Major League" would say, Green's effort went "Juuuuust a bit outside." Green's pitch was so wild, yet had so much on it, that it broke a pane of glass behind home plate that protects a TV camera. Well ... good job, glass!

Broadcaster Steve Stone on CSN Chicago added, "I guess when you throw the ceremonial first pitch, you just don't want to airmail the catcher."

And the reaction of catcher John Buck was the best part. He barely moves for the ball (because, why?), he looks behind home plate and then turns back to Green as if to say, "I think you broke something."

This is not the first time Green has had trouble with a first pitch at Citi Field. In 2009:

Minute Maid Park on opening day 2012. (Getty Images)

Have a baseball road trip coming up? Well, in a bid to help you with your upcoming journeys, Big League Stew has solicited the help of the locals. Over the next month or so, we'll be hitting up our usual guest blogger crew to feature 10 tips for enjoying each of the 30 ballparks like the locals do. Have a suggestion in addition to the ones listed here? Make sure to list it in the comments below.

Up next is our good friend James Yasko of Astros County. He wrote the 10 best things about being an Astros fan for us last season and will help you navigate a trip to see his favorite team in the early stages of a rebuild.

Planning a visit to Houston? You’ll love it – as long as you don’t visit when the proximity of the sun is melting it away, which is basically between now and November. But for the 80 percent of you who still have snow on the ground, it’s a lovely place that, according to MLB.com has a baseball team (ESPN makes no mention of them).

So what should you visit when you’re in Houston? Well, I'm here to tell you. But in the interest of full disclosure: I don’t live in Houston anymore. All my exes live in Texas, which actually does partially explain why I hang my hat in Tennessee. Worry not, though. My family still lives in Houston, so I’m there fairly often. I still consider myself a local.

1. Getting to the game: Minute Maid Park is a downtown stadium so parking is atrocious. The prices are inconsistent based on the lot – you might pay $10 to get within four blocks of the Stadium, walk two blocks and find that a closer lot is $5. Might I suggest the MetroRail, Houston’s newish 7.5-mile light rail? It’s clean, it’s cheaper than parking by the stadium, easier and quicker to get in and out of the ballpark, and there’s only like a 40 percent chance that the MetroRail will hit a pedestrian.

2. I want to see a specific game. Will I be able to get tickets? Will the 2013 Astros sell out quickly? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. The lone benefit of having a bad team is that any seat or section is there for the taking. Check Stubhub for some real bargains.

(Getty)It didn't take long for a brand-new ballpark to start looking like the place the Miami Marlins used to call home.

Because of weak attendance at Marlins Park, the club announced Tuesday it will be closing the upper deck for several upcoming home dates. The closure would reduce stadium capacity from 37,442 to about 27,000, which still is more than enough to accomodate the average number of tickets distributed at home games: 18,864, fourth-smallest in Major League Baseball. The amount of people who actually show up for the game is something less than that.

Columnist Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald has the details:

The upper bowl will be closed for six dates in the team’s nine-game homestand that begins next Tuesday. Fans can sit only in the lower bowl for games May 14-16 against Cincinnati and May 20-22 against Philadelphia. The upper bowl will remain open for May 17-19 games against Arizona.

It's not that Diamondbacks fans travel better than those of the Phillies or Reds, but that series comes on a Friday-Sunday, when attendance usually is higher across the league.

Fewer than 500 seats in the upper deck are season tickets, anyway, so those folks will be moved to the lower bowl for affected games. What if they don't want to be moved? Oh, you don't want to get into an argument with the Marlins over being moved.

Built for $634 million and opened just a year ago, Marlins Park averaged 27,401 fans in 2012, though the team says only about 17,000 showed for games. As payroll-cutting measures have continued and the quality of the team's play has worsened, a strong demand just doesn't exist. So why not close the upper tank, like they did at Sun Life Stadium, if there's not enough people? It's embarrassing either way. At least this makes sense from a financial standpoint.

Unless advance ticket sales perk up, expect the team to do this going forward. Team spokesman P.J. Loyello says it's better this way:

The Juice returns for season No. 6! It's almost eligible for free-agency! Stop by daily for news from the action, along with great photos, stats, video highlights and more.

One strike away from his 100th career save, Atlanta Braves right-hander Craig Kimbrel suddenly became vulnerable to the Cincinnati Reds, who hit two solo home runs in a span of five pitches to flip the script on the league's top closer.

Devin Mesoraco remembered the advice of manager Dusty Baker and connected for his career first pinch-hit home run, and Shin-Soo Choo followed with a game-ender in the Reds' shocking 5-4 victory Tuesday night. Reporter Joe Kay of the Associated Press writes:

Mesoraco hasn't done much pinch hitting, but remembered something that manager Dusty Baker had advised about those pressure situations.

''Dusty says with two strikes, look for their hardest pitch away,'' Mesoraco said. ''I stayed on it.''

It was the second blown save in five days for Kimbrel, who gave up a tying home to David Wright of the Mets in a loss Friday. He's blown three saves this season after blowing that many in all of 2012. He's also allowing a .449 slugging percentage by opponents.

''All around, it's frustrating,'' said Kimbrel, who is 10 of 13 in save chances. ''I've blown three saves. Those are wins we should have had."

More ninth-inning home-run heroics: Slugger Paul Goldschmidt ended an 11-pitch at-bat against Brandon League with a two-run homer that broke a tie in the ninth and sent the Arizona Diamondbacks to a 5-3 victory that kept the Los Angeles Dodgers reeling. Goldschmidt fouled off five pitches with a 3-2 count before taking League over the fence. Arizona handed L.A. its sixth straight defeat after Heath Bell pitched a scoreless ninth. J.J. Putz felt stiffness in his right elbow and was lifted after walking Nick Punto to start the bottom of the ninth.

Thinking of J.A.: With teammate J.A. Happ no doubt on their minds, the Toronto Blue Jays staged another comeback against the Tampa Bay Rays, turning around an early three-run deficit into a 6-4 victory at Tropicana Field. In a moment reminiscent of Brandon McCarthy a season ago, Happ was struck in the head with a line drive by Desmond Jennings in the second inning and taken to a hospital. The Stew's Mike Oz wrote about it Tuesday night. But the show went on, with Jose Bautista tying the score with a double in the eighth, and Maicer Izturis hitting a solo home run to put the Jays ahead in the ninth. They've won three straight for the first time all season.

MORE SCORES

Rockies 2, Yankees 0: Three dozen members of the Denver Broncos (field trip!) watched Jorge De La Rosa outduel Hiroki Kuroda, who allowed a two-run homer to Carlos Gonzalez.

Mets 1, White Sox 0 (10 inn.): Matt Harvey was the story, even if he was out of the game by the time somebody scored.

Cubs 2, Cardinals 1: Travis Wood just a hair better than Lance Lynn. For some people, the Cubs beating the Cards is like when the Bears

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One game proves nothing usually, but if there ever has been an example of the inanity of assigning wins and losses to individual pitchers, what happened to right-hander Matt Harvey on Tuesday night is it.

Here's his line for the New York Mets: Nine innings, 12 strikeouts, one hit allowed, no runs or walks and one bloody nose — which he got under control after a messy first. Also for Harvey: A no-decision. The Mets scored a run in the 10th to beat the Chicago White Sox 1-0 at Citi Field.

Harvey allowed only an infield single to Alex Rios with two outs in the seventh.

Harvey not getting credit for a win because his team didn't score while he happened to be in the game shouldn't matter, but it does matter when it comes to getting paid. Things like wins and RBIs — another statistic largely beyond an individual's control — frequently are a key part of arbitration hearings and contract negotiations in general.

But just between us, wins and losses for pitchers are baloney. There are a zillion better ways to measure how well a pitcher performed, like game score. (Here's the formula.) Against the White Sox, Harvey posted a game score of 97, the best anyone has turned in so far this season and, as Yahoo! Sports' own Jeff Passan said on Twitter:

Since 1916, there have been only 40 outings of nine innings or fewer with a higher Game Score.

Only 59 pitchers have gone up to nine innings and scored at least a 97. Taking it a step further, if you filter Passan's list to include only pitchers who got a no-decision, it's three performances long.

A very scary scene unfolded Tuesday night at Tropicana Field: Toronto Blue Jays pitcher J.A. Happ was hit hard on the head by a Desmond Jennings line drive in the second inning, sending Happ to the ground with blood running out of his ear.

Happ didn't get up as the play finished — the ball ricocheted into the right-field corner and Jennings finished with a two-run triple. Happ's teammates and the Blue Jays medical team rushed to his aid afterward. He was eventually carted off the field on a stretcher. Reports from the scene say Happ was conscious when he left the field and motioned to the crowd on his way to the clubhouse. He was quickly sent to a nearby hospital.

UPDATE: Happ is said to be in stable condition Bayfront Medical Center, according to an Associated Press report.

The team said Happ was taken to Bayfront Medical Center, where he was alert and undergoing tests. Nursing supervisor Natasha Keller told The Associated Press that Happ had been admitted to the hospital and was in stable condition.

(MLB.com)

A Colorado Rockies fan was caught on camera Sunday showing his team a special kind of love — mohawk love.

It's one thing to wear a Rockies cap, it's another entirely to devote a mohawk to your favorite team. MLB.com's Cut 4 blog introduced us to this rockin' Rockies fan, but we couldn't help but wonder what some of the actual Rockies players would look like with a Rock-hawk (Yep, that's a thing now).

We'll start with Troy Tulowitzki, whose name and number is honored on half of the 'hawk.