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Mike Pelfrey will make his second start of the spring today against the Braves in Port St. Lucie.
The game will air live at 1 pm on SNY and online at MLB.tv.
Billy Wagner and Aaron Heilman, among others, will relieve Pelfrey. Jo-Jo Reyes will start for the Braves.
…reyes strikes me as the braves’ left-handed answer to pelfrey: a young guy with success in the minors who wasn’t quite able to put it together in the big leagues last season…
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Burkhardt doing the play-by-play with Ronnie as analyst. Gary getting some rest!
*with Ronnie AND Keith
reyes looked good on that first ground ball!! (thank jah!)
who says you need a first baseman?? ugh.
maybe a little play by play today .. may not last all game:
pelfrey pitching, top of the first:
johnson – groundball to short
escobar – single to right center
error on abreu (first base) on pickup move, escobar to second
Schafer – flyball to left
Thorman – flyball to right
pelfrey looks good, not many pitches thrown.
jo-jo reyes pitching, bottom of first:
jose reyes: K looking at an outside corner fastball on a 2-2 count. (he appeared to be looking for a breaking ball and was fooled..)
a.hernandez: ground ball to second
wright: flyball rf
wow my own thread.
;)
i appreciate it mookie, was in a meeting and your recap to this point was helpful!
Thanks mookie … keep up the good work!
lol…yep, all yours for as long as you can do it!
You guys realize that you can use one MLB.com account with whoever you want, at the same time right? My buddy and I have shared an account for 5 years. Its like $7.50 each to hear every game the whole year.
can’t listen at work, but I do the same thing with other stuff
top of the second, pelfrey pitching:
lopez: out so quick I missed it.. “an easy groundball to the left side”
diaz: groundball to third
anderson: groundball to short
pelfreys’ throwing strikes and they’re pounding them into the ground. We don’t need no stinkin el duque!! (I know I know, last spring….)
Nice. How’s his body language looking? Confidence?
3 ground balls. That is a thing of beauty. Are these regulars or AAA guys he is throwing against?
bout half n half I think
Pelf is a year older, and a year more experienced than in last Spring.
El Duque is just a year older…
Haha wow that guy hit the wall hard. Nice job, Castro.
Jordan Schafer….future Braves great :(
bottom of second, reyes pitching,
alou: flyball to rf
pagan: single to left after a 8-9 pitch AB .. nice hitting
castro: hammered the ball to center.. almost out , off the top of the wall over the leaping outfielder. Standup triple — anyone else would have had an inside the parker. pagan, running on the play, scores from first easily.
martinez: hammered the ball but right at the first baseman
abreu: groundball to second
mets up 1-0
I’m really liking Pagan. I was happy when we got him but what’s the deal with his options? If he starts in the majors he can’t be sent down?? is that it..?
Pagan is okay – but must they give him Doc’s number? Shouldn’t he have like 76?
Man, Pelf looks good today. Sawing off bats left and right….Leiter-esque.
As long as that doesn’t include critiquing teammates’ boombox choices, that’s fine by me.
top 3rd: pelfrey still pitching, looking confident and strong
Keith says “he’s throwing terrific” and he and burkhardt are going on and on about how hard pelf is throwing.
prado: flyball to right on 1 pitch
pena: broken bat groundball, infield single, hernandez couldn’t quite make the play
johnson: ground ball to second, runner advances on the play
escobar: weak groundball to third after a 3-0 count, then on 3-1
excellent outing from pelfrey!
wagner pitching next inning
Excelllllllllent.
Great news for the club that Pelf’s throwing bowling balls for strikes :D
great to see pelf doing well. i like the kid and hope he can help fill the voids we will have in the rotation in 09.
or ‘08
Good News on Pelf, anybody know what the rotation is going to be this weekend? I am going down to see them for a couple of games.
bottom of third acosta pitching:
cancel: double to left center gap
reyes: rbi single up the middle
hernandez: weak groundball to first, reyes goes to second
bad pickoff throw to second, reyes to third
wright: walk
alou: double play
pfffft
Damn Alou, although I am not worried about Alou, he had a bad spring training last year and besides the injury, he did fine.
So Wagner has no idea how to keep runners close to first, huh?
Not too many closers do.
But yeah, pretty much.
His best MO is definitely the 1-2-3, then it doesn’t matter :P
top 4th: wagner pitching:
Schafer: bloop single to left
thorman: K
lopez: popup to short, in shallow left
shafer steals second
diaz: rbi single up the middle, squeaked by wagner, ball not hit hard..
diaz steals second (he would have been long out with a good throw)
anderson: groundball to second, I hope billy didn’t hurt himself diving for it ;)
I am just not convinced that wagner should even be on this team. not just based on that last inning, but he only has one pitch that he can throw for a strike and everyone knows it. so they all sit dead red and drill his extremely flat, non moving fastball. i’ve never watched him pitch and not been terrified. i can see him blowing a LOT of saves this year.
he’s definitely better when he gets that slider across for a strike. I didn’t notice any curve balls today, but I was a little distracted by a coworker (have to keep up appearances here ;)
The league hit .216 against him last year. I wouldn’t call that sitting dead red and drilling his flat non moving fastball. If it were that simple, they’d be hitting a lot higher than .216.
yada yada yada…whining about the best closer in the league on March 3rd? Get out much?
what exactly are you talking about? He was easily our best reliever last year and the year before, and one of the best in the NL. Who cares how you “feel”, the guy has the stats to back it up. Is he the best? No, but he’s pretty damn good and more of a sure thing then any guy who could possibly replace him.
bottom 4th: boyer pitching (another local georgia boy ugh, I’m sure he’ll be great)
pagan: ground ball to second
castro: reaches on error on groundball to second
martinez: another ball scorched at thorman, who makes a diving stop and gets the 3 (unassisted) throw to second double play
top of 5th: figueroa pitching
prado: high flyball to left field, may have been in foul territory
pena: missed it, he got out :)
hernandez: single to left
lillibridge: backwards K
braves: 1 mets: 2
Good Ole CB Bucknor. I don’t miss him one bit.
bottom 5th boyer still pitching:
abreu: flyball to rf
cancel: K
reyes: groundball to short
the PA guy didn’t get the memo & played josejosejose w/ a 2-2 count, only to see reyes ground out on the next pitch
re the chant: seriously, can one of the (seemingly many) lawyers out there draft an injunction or something?
The canned Jose chant was really grating in that situation.
top 6th figueroa still in:
schafer: basehit by the diving ss (tejada, not that one, not reyes ;)
thorman: flyball to cf
wild pitch advances schafer to second
lopez: ground ball to short, schafer goes to third
diaz: weak groundball to 3rd
figuera looked good, fooling hitters with his offspeed/breaking stuff
vargas pitches next (uh-oh)
bottom 6th morton pitching:
hernandez: walk after down 0-2
wright: got out missed it
hernandez to second on wild pitch
carrera (playing lf): groundball to short, hernandez to third
pagan: backwards k
pelfrey gave an interview during that half inning….his confidence is certainly improved, he’s more comfortable and I’ve really got a good feeling about this kid, this season.
wright easy fly ball out, he looked pissed, bit of bat throwing.
thanks .. he should be pissed, he’s hitting .091 this spring.
hey now, that’s just david being david.
top 7th, vargas pitching:
anderson: bunt out to first base, tagged
prado: pop to center
pena: groundball to short
nice quick work by vargas
bottom 7th, morton still in:
castro: walk on 4 pitches
martinez: single –finally got one through the hole!
abreu: double play 6-4-3, castro to third
molina: groundball to third .. robbed of a double down the line by a nice play
still 2-1 mets
wise was interviewed and said he’s definitely not a headcase ;)
I appreciate the play-by-play… Can’t believe this isn’t televised in Atlanta…
all praise be to mlb.com !! it’s a lifesaver!
top 8th (this game is cruising, and they’ve only been doing like 1 commercial between..I’m going to have to do some work today after all!!) muniz pitching for the first time this spring
hernandez: hammered a double down the line
lillibridge: tried to bunt got to 0-2, then strikeout, passed ball on a lazy catcher play, lillibridge safe at first, hernandez goes to third
schafer: sac fly to left, 2-2 ballgame
flowers: high popup behind third, ss catches, lillibridge didn’t realize there were only 1 out, was already to third when the ball was caught, so we had a double play.
before the inning, they showed a girl sleeping out on the berm, and keith says “you know what, I’ll be back .. I’m going to take a nap out there on the berm” lol always the ladies man!
Whoops! That’s the kind of goof little league coaches get all hot under the collar about ;)
bottom 8th lillibridge’s face is still red, desalvo is pitching
tejada: flyball to rf
hernandez: weak groundball to first
molina: K
does anyone else feel like we really shouldn’t have a catcher named molina? And yeah, I know he’s not related.
top 9th: rincon pitching (when / how did we get this guy?)
sammons: groundball to short on first pitch
jones: swinging k on a nice 0-2 breaking ball
blanco: had him 0-2, 3 straight very close balls, then a big cut swinging K
Wasn’t Rincon very effective with his tenure in Oakland?
We signed him to a minor-league contract / non-roster invite in mid-January.
He’s missed a lot of time to injury.
bottom 9th still desalvo:
carrera: swinging bunt to third, out
pagan: flyball to cf
castro: flyball to cf
mets have someone waming up, braves have 3 pitchers left apparently, we’re onto extra spring innings!
top 10th: maldonado
prado: groundball to ss
pena: groundball to first, nice play by abreu
hernandez: walk
lillibridge: fernando martinez made a great catch in right center (think shawn green flop territory ;)
FMart really looked like he was trying for the walk off there.
He really, really looks like a ballplayer.
bottom 10th: rouwenhorst (bless you) pitching
martinez: swinging for the fences, skyed one to first base
abreu: walk
murphy: swinging K – also swinging from his heels
tejada: double to the right centerfield gap
abreu wheeled around third wildly (sandy wanted to go home), double clutch by the relay man made the tag just late, nice slide from abreu scores the run!
mets win mets win!!
back to .500
well pitched game, nice hustle.. back to work :/
you’re the man, thanks for the pbp
Thanks m00kie! Good looking out for the people at work.
Thanks Mook! That play by play saved my workday!!!
METS win!!!!
MOOK you ROCK!
Thanks m00k, I missed the game working today, but feel like I was here the whole time now that I’ve read through…