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| AJ "delivers" |
I was finally able to catch a ballgame last night, my Opening Day if you will. On a brisk evening, A.J. Burnett made his 2012 AAA rehab debut, with some pretty poor results. Of course, perhaps he was "working on things" but that just infuriates me. Majors or minors, we are all paying customers, and deserve to see our teams try to win. Not to say he wasn't trying to win, but I wouldn't consider 4IP, 7H, 5ER, 4BB, 0K, 3SB,2HR and an 11.25ERA a successful outing, good velocity or not. Even if 52 of his 81 pitches were for strikes, facing 21 batters in 4 innings, and walking the lead off batter in each of the first three innings, then a lead off home run in the fourth inning isn't very good either.
Over 50 pictures are posted
in this set on my
Flickr page, please visit for more shots. But here are a few of the better ones I got from last night. Yes, I have a man crush on Starling Marte, what of it?
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| Monday's Lineup |
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Gorkys and Starling tracking a flyball. With this kind of speed
in LF and CF, the Indians pitchers have to relax just a little. |
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| Starling Marte tracked this one down, right in front of me in dead CF. |
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| Eric Fryer holds on to the ball, he was out. |
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| But earlier, the runner beat him to the plate. |
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A sight that NO Pirate fan wants to see, Starling Marte learning to play Hurdleball.
(to be fair though, he was just bluffing for a bunt single) |
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| Starling Marte, a half step from beating out a routine infield grounder |
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| Beautiful sunset, beautiful park, beautiful game (despite 9-2 loss) |
Go New Pirates!
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