Live: Intra-Squad Game from Tradition Field

I’m heading out to the field, to grab a seat, set up my laptops and cameras, to do my best to live-blog images from the game.

Update, 11:43: John Maine struck out Carlos Beltran looking at a fastball on the outside corner.

I was watching Maine warm up, as you can see in the video below, and was surprised to learn that, even in the bullpen, they create situations. For instance, Maine announced to the bullpen catcher, ‘OK, let’s do a lefty, watch out Jeff Kent.’

Update, 11:47:

J.J. Putz is actually looks to be getting annoyed with the umpire, who is not giving him the low strike. He then let up a hit to Angel Pagan in the left field corner, which scored Andy Green.

Update, 11:50 am:

Jerry Manuel is again watching the game behind Jose Reyes at short. He’s muttering something, which I assume Reyes can hear, because occasionally he looks back to Manuel and nods.

Update, 11:55 am:

David Wright hit a deep pop up to center field off of Maine, who gave him the by-an-inch movement with his thumb and pointer finger.

Update, 12:00 pm:

Freddy Garcia is in the game, in relief of J.J. Putz. I posted video of Garcia warming up the bullpen, at the end of this post.

Rene Rivera bumped heads with Daniel Murphy, on a possible throw down to second, but they appeared to be OK.

Murphy ended up being walked by Maine.

Update, 12:03 pm:

Garcia looks like he has a nice change up, but he’s getting hit pretty hard, letting up a double deep in the gap to the young Jose Coronado.

Update, 12:18 pm:

David Wright and Carlos Beltran each clobbered a home run off of rookie Mike Antonini. Wright’s ball went a mile. You can see video of Beltran rounding third on the home run below.

Antonini actually brushed Wright back, accidentally I am sure, following Beltran’s home run, to which the older lady behind me yelled, “Woh, watch it, kid, lot of money at the plate.”

Update, 12:25 pm:

Garcia’s off-speed stuff looks good, but his fastball is flat. I mean, it’s an intra-squad game, so it’s not that big of a deal, but given the health concerns, it’s worth noting – he’s also missing high in the zone a lot.

Wright made a nice diving stop in the hole to throw out a batter.

Jerry Manuel is always holding a baseball bat.

Update, 12:30 pm:

I’m running low on battery and sustenance . I’m going to take a break, grab a hot dog, re-charge and check in with the beat writers.

Don’t forget, to get an inning-by-inning log of the game, keep an eye on Adam Rubin’s blog for the Daily News.

…i like this, he does play-by-play, i’ll do imagery…

1:17 pm:

Angel Pagan just made a strong throw off a pop out to peg Bobby Kielty tagging from third and trying to score.

The home team is up 4-2 in the seventh inning, though it looks like a dark set if clouds may be rolling in.

1:33 pm:

In the bullpen, Ramon Castro spent a good five minutes heckling the third base umpire, calling him Marlon Anderson, because of the similarity, yelling, “Marlon, Marlon, hey, Marlon.”

Finally, the umpire turned around and asked, “Me,” to which Castro seriously said, ‘Oh, sorry, I thought you were some one else.”

Video:

John Maine warming up in the bullpen before the game:

JJ Putz pitching to Angel Pagan:

Freddy Garcia warming up in the bullpen:

Carlos Beltran rounding third after a home run off Antonini:

Pictures: