![Marlins Park](https://sports.cbsimg.net/images//visual/whatshot/Marlins_Park040412.jpg)
When the Cardinals and Marlins met on Wednesday, it wasn't quite opening day because, well, we've already played a pair of regular-season games, and, well, it wasn't day. So let us call it "Domestic Opening Night." Fair enough?
So the Cardinals, on the strength of six no-hit innings by right-hander Kyle Lohse, bested the rebranded Fish by a score of 4-1. The real star of the night, however, was Marlins Park and its curious and abundant amenities and/or signifiers of Western decline.
For instance ...
![Marlins Girls](https://sports.cbsimg.net/images//visual/whatshot/Marlins_Girls040412.jpg)
Anyhow, the great Muhammad Ali was on hand and in the company of team owner Jeffrey Loria ...
![Ali](https://sports.cbsimg.net/images//visual/whatshot/Ali040412.jpg)
As you would expect, Brazilian dancers escorted members of the home team out for introductions ...
![Introductions](https://sports.cbsimg.net/images//visual/whatshot/Dancers040412.jpg)
And eventually baseball was played. Carlos Beltran in the top of the first notched the first hit in Marlins Park history ...
![Carlos Beltran](https://sports.cbsimg.net/images//visual/whatshot/Carlos_Beltran040412.jpg)
Then, at some point, this presumably planned event happened between innings ...
![Sea Creatures](https://sports.cbsimg.net/images//visual/whatshot/Sea_Creatures040412.jpg)
Kyle Lohse held the Fish hitless ...
![Kyle Lohse](https://sports.cbsimg.net/images//visual/whatshot/KLohse040412.jpg)
Until Jose Reyes led off the seventh with a single -- the first Marlins hit in Marlins Park history ...
![Jose Reyes](https://sports.cbsimg.net/images//visual/whatshot/Jose_Reyes040412.jpg)
In the ninth, however, Jason Motte ended things with a 90-plus-mph slider to Giancarlo Stanton ...
![Jason Motte](https://sports.cbsimg.net/images//visual/whatshot/Jason_Motte040412.jpg)
And that, readers, is the visual tale of "Domestic Opening Night 2012."
Tomorrow, of course, comes "Opening Day 2012 III."
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