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PITCHERS: 13
Yency Almonte
Adbert Alzolay 
Javier Assad
Colten Brewer
Ben Brown
Kyle Hendricks
* Shota Imanaga
Mark Leiter Jr
Hector Neris 
* Drew Smyly
Jameson Taillon 
Keegan Thompson
* Jordan Wicks

CATCHERS: 2
Miguel Amaya
Yan Gomes

INFIELDERS: 7
* Michael Busch 
Garrett Cooper
Nico Hoerner
Nick Madrigal
Christopher Morel
Dansby Swanson
Patrick Wisdom

OUTFIELDERS: 4
* Cody Bellinger 
# Ian Happ
Seiya Suzuki
* Mike Tauchman 

OPTIONED: 12 
Kevin Alcantara, OF 
Michael Arias, P 
Pete Crow-Armstrong, OF 
Jose Cuas, P 
Brennen Davis, OF 
Porter Hodge, P 
* Luke Little, P 
* Miles Mastrobuoni, INF
* Matt Mervis, 1B 
Daniel Palencia, P 
Luis Vazquez, INF 
Hayden Wesneski, P 

10-DAY IL: 1 
Seiya Suzuki, OF

15-DAY IL: 
* Justin Steele, P   

60-DAY IL: 2 
Caleb Kilian, P 
Julian Merryweather, P
 




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Game 1 Rec...Aw Crap, We Lost to The Pirates

Submitted by Rob G. on

Box Score | Video

The Good: Fukudome got on-base 3 times out of the leadoff spot, Castro went 3 for 5, Pena got on-base twice with an RBI and and multi-hit games by Ramirez and Barney as well. Ramirez also just missed a 3-run game tying homer in the 7th. Dempster looked like a good pitcher for the first 4 innings and did strike out 7 on the game. Castro made an awesome dive to turn a double play to save Samardzija's ass. Some aggressive baserunning by Castro and DeJesus helped score the first run. The team pounded out 10 singles.

The Bad: No extra-base hits and just two walks by the offense, Barney got thrown out by Ryan Doumit and there was the 5th inning. After a leadoff single by Ryan Doumit, Dempster faces Garrett Jones. A hit and run is called and Jones fouls it off. Next pitch, no hit and run and a chopper to third that Aramis had a play at second base on and never takes a look and tosses it to first. He probably doesn't have a double play there, but you should always go after the lead runner of course. Then a walk to Ronny Cedeno which is a feat in of itself and maybe Dempster isn't so keen to pitch out of the zone against Cedeno if first base is occupied. Bob Brenly attempts to justify this by saying that it now sets up a possible double play with the pitcher up. It also sets up an sacrifice attempt and two runners in scoring position with the top of the order coming up. Tabata walks and then Neil Walker comes up. The count goes 3-2 and Dempster throws a splitter that Walker fouls off. Even if he keeps that it play, it may go for a single, but at worst it's a tie game. For some inexplicable reason, Dempster goes fastball next time and judging by the replay didn't miss his spot by too much and leaves one right in the lefty happy zone. Blame Soto, blame Dempster, blame Mark Riggins, but sweet jeebus was that a terrible pitch.

After two more walks in the 6th by Dempster and what looked like he was losing a little velocity, Q-Ball decides to keep him out in the 7th claiming that he thought he was fine and Dempster earned the right to tell him if he was done. He also cited that he liked how he finished up the 6th with Cedeno. *Facepalm*

Jeff Samardzija pitched an inning with the game still within 3 runs.

The It Won't Take Long to Dislike Q-Ball: Well if you want to dislike Mike Quade, just go ahead and click on the video link and the Mike Quade post-game conference. Some golden nuggets...

"He made two mistakes and they left the ballpark"

"our bullpen is fresh tomorrow"

"There were too many good things that happened."

"The score was 4-2, he said he felt fine, no, my gut didn't tell me that and if it did I would have gotten him out there. I thought he was fine".

Z vs. Maholm tomorrow...

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Submitted by The E-Man on Sat, 04/02/2011 - 04:01 am

Thanks ROB G. Are you intending to do this all year? What a feat! This was one day I was glad I was sitting in covered seating. Ugh. The "Boys of Summer"??? One Good left out: In the early innings, Castro makes a remarkable stop from behind 2nd to nail the runner at 1st with the nice stretch via Pena. Another Bad, Pena, with the bags juiced and one out, meekly dribbles the ball to the Right Side of the IF. A run scores, but ya sure don't get much for $10MM these days. Should have been a bigger inning.

Submitted by VirginiaPhil on Sat, 04/02/2011 - 04:44 pm

It was a textbook rally. Nice situational, two-strike right-field hitting by Byrd, Soto and Soriano. Byrd only hit a grounder, but even without the run-scoring error it would have moved the runner to third with one out. Quade started things off by subbing walk-prone Fukudome for Baker. Fukudome walked. Would Piniella have made that move? I don't think so. Quade seems more hands-on.

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