Ozuna’s’ goal: Be more consistent
Marlins outfifielder had an All-Star beginning in 2016, but faded after that.
JUPITER — Marcell Ozuna has shown how valuable he can be to the Marlins’ lineup when he’s locked in at the plate.
St aying productive for an entire season is the next step for the talented outfifielder one year after he was named an AllStar for the fifirst time.
Ozuna hit .266 while driving in 76 runs and matching his career high in home runs with 23. He also hit a careerbest six triples.
But the fifirst half of the season, which earned him a trip to San Diego’s Petco Park as one of four Marlins’ All-Stars along with the late Jose Fernandez, A.J. Ramos and then-Miami reliever Fernando Rodney, told a diffffffffffffer-
It’s scary what Dustin Johnson is doing these days.
Winning, sure. D J’s romp at the Dell Technologies Match Play event over the weekend gives him three victories in a row on the PGA Tour, and two of those were in elite-field World Golf Championship events.
Improving, too. Johnson finally won a major last season, the U.S. Open at Oakmont, and last month he reached No. 1 in the Official World Golf Rankings, another first.
Here, though, is where golf ’s quiet giant truly separates himself.
He appears to be coasting as he laps the field, not roaring like Tiger Woods did or grinding for every available ounce of precision like Jack Nicklaus. Dustin saunters down the fairway as if on vacation. He reacts to birdies, eagles and double bogeys with less apparent celebration/ disgust than the rest of us do when we find/lose the TV remote between the sofa Dave George Dustin Johnson already has six top five finishes this season: WGC HSBC Champions Hero World Challenge SBS Tournament of Champions Farmers Insurance Open AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am Genesis Open WGC Mexico Championship WGC Dell Technologies Match Play T5 T3 T6 CUT 3 1 1 1