Game Thread #-14: Brewers (11-8-2) at Angels (16-4)
by Kyle Lobner on Mar 21, 2009 2:00 PM CDT
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PrintThe Brewers hit the road today to take on the best team in the Cactus League. The 16-4 Angels hold a 3.5 game lead over the second place Royals in exhibition play, and a 4.5 game lead over the Brewers, currently in fourth place.
Today it's Dave Bush facing Nick Adenhart. Bush is having an impressive spring, posting a 2.57 ERA in 14 innings of work so far. Adenhart is making his fourth appearance and third start, and he's posted a 5.40 ERA in 8.1 innings.
Game time is at 3:05, and the game is on WTMJ.
Saturday's Game Thread is now open.
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Kendall leading off again
line-up from McCalvy
Jason Kendall C
Tony Gwynn Jr. CF
Corey Hart RF
Prince Fielder 1B
Bill Hall 3B
Brad Nelson LF
Casey McGehee 2B
Mike Lamb DH
Alcides Escobar SS
Also in the same post from McCalvy:
Riske Julio and Littleton sheduled to be the other pitchers today
Looper to pitch in the AAA game today
Rivera is to be Bush’s catcher for the season to give Kendall time off during the season
Corey Hart
please keep this up during the season
I'm hoping that Bush can keep this up all year
This line-up that he is facing is not that far from the Angels opening day one only really missing Abreu and Napoli.
S walk and a hit batsman to get two on
followed by a ground out to get them to 2nd and 3rd with 1 out
Followed by a Sac Fly and a wild pitch to get them home.
All in all what some people would call “small ball”
The Crew obviously like Littleton more than Morlan
Otherwise they would not of picked him up knowing that, if they wanted to cut Morlan he would 1st have to be offered back to the Rays.
They picked Morlan in the rule 5 draft thinking he might be able to make the 25 man roster – otherwise why pick him?
So by that reasoning they must think that there is a chance that Littleton is good enough to make the 25 man roster.
The way the bullpen is shaping up I think that there is 2 spot up for grabs – assuming everyone is fit for opening day – with Julio,Coffey and DiFelice in the mix aswell as Littleton.
If Hoffman,Looper or somebody else starts on the DL then 3 of the 4 would make it.
Hoffman,Stetter,McClung,Riske,Villanueva are all certain to be there if fit.
Littleton actually looked pretty good today
IIRC, most of the hits he gave up were more little bleeders than anything else…he did give up a big sac fly, but it wasn’t that deep…unless I’m just completely misremembering. All in all, though, he seemed pretty solid, and he looked good on Thursday, too.
Brewers Baseball and other assorted nonsense (mostly the assorted nonsense) at my blog, What's a Tararrel?
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Chicago
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0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | Lost 0 |
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Cincinnati
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0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | Lost 0 |
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Houston
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0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | Lost 0 |
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Milwaukee
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0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | Lost 0 |
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Pittsburgh
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0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | Lost 0 |
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St. Louis
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0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | Lost 0 |
(updated 2.15.2012 at 7:03 AM CST)
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