(Sports Network) - Left-hander Barry Zito looks to avoid an inglorious milestone tonight when the San Francisco Giants open a three-game series with the Florida Marlins at Dolphin Stadium.

Zito, in his second year with the Giants, has gone 0-8 in nine starts, bringing him within one loss of becoming the first major leaguer since Mike Maroth in 2003 to open a season 0-9.

With a 3-1 loss against the Chicago White Sox on May 17, he already became the first Giant to reach 0-8 since Jesse Burkett did so in 1890.

Zito, who was 11-13 with San Francisco last season after winning 16 games in Oakland in 2006, is 1-0 in a pair of lifetime starts against the Marlins, posting a 4.91 earned run average in 11 innings.

Additionally for the Giants, veteran shortstop Omar Vizquel is within two games of equaling Hall of Famer Luis Aparicio's big-league record of 2,583 career games at shortstop.

Vizquel, an 11-time Gold Glove winner, already holds the records for most double plays (1,660) and the highest fielding percentage (.984) for players with at least 1,000 games at the position.

For the Marlins, southpaw Scott Olsen looks to prolong a breakthrough season.

The 24-year-old Michigan native, who was just 10-15 in 2007, won his initial three decisions of 2008 and has lost just one time in nine overall starts.

He's gotten no-decisions in two straight since a 3-0 shutout of Milwaukee on May 6.

Lifetime against the Giants, he is 1-1 in two starts with a 1.93 ERA in 14 innings.

On Thursday in Florida, Andrew Miller tossed seven shutout innings to lead Florida to a three-game sweep of the Arizona Diamondbacks with a 4-0 win.

Miller (4-3) scattered five hits, struck out a career-high nine, and walked one for the Marlins, who swept the three-game matchup of division leaders, maintaining their surprising spot atop the National League East.

Alfredo Amezaga went 3-for-3 and scored, and Wes Helms had a pinch-hit, two- run double for Florida.

On Wednesday in Colorado, Vizquel's sacrifice fly in the 10th inning drove in the winning run, as the Giants rallied to defeat the Rockies, 3-2, in the rubber match of a three-game set at Coors Field.

Jonathan Sanchez gave up two runs on eight hits in 6 1/3 innings for the Giants.

The left-hander struck out five and walked three in a no-decision. The rally made a winner out of Tyler Walker (2-2), who tossed a scoreless ninth.

Vizquel was 2-for-4 with a double and run scored for San Francisco, which has rattled off two straight wins following a season-high, six-game skid. Bengie Molina also had two hits and knocked in a run, while Steve Holm's RBI double in the ninth sent the game into extra innings.

San Francisco won six of its seven matchups with the Marlins last season.