3/31 Angels (Colon) at Brewers (Capuano), 1:00 PM CT

[MassBrew]

It's getaway day, so game time is an hour earlier than usual -- look for Cappy to have a big strike zone. And is it just me, or have the Brewers failed to hit a "name" pitcher hard in at least three weeks? Schmidt, Zito, etc., all seem to post lines like "one run in six innings" against the Crew this spring.

 

MLB.com audio link for subscribers:

 

mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/ml...d=20050331

 

Don't forget your Gorman Thomas chat at 2:00 PM CT via the Brewers' official site.

[rluzinski]

It's also on XM Radio, channel 185, or in spanish on channel 190. Kinda fun to listen to it that way http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif A game a few days ago wasn't in english so I was listening to the spanish version. Was very confused till I heard, "Brewers Ocho, Angels once."

 

LINK

[SlideBernieSlide]

The last day in Arizona and Chris Capuano is auditioning for the #3 spot in the rotation.

 

Spring Training is almost over and the new season about to begin. What a beautiful day! Count me in for the running box.

 

I'll update within this post! Go Brewers!

 

Line-ups....

Angels:

SS Maicer Izturis

RF Jeff DaVanon

3B Robb Quinlan

CF Juan Rivera

1B Casey Kotchman

C Jose Molina

2B Lou Merloni

LF Curtis Pride

P Bartolo Colon

 

Brewers:

CF Brady Clark

SS JJ Hardy

1B Lyle Overbay

LF Carlos Lee

RF Geoff Jenkins

3B Wes Helms

2B Billy Hall

C Chad Moeller

P Chris Capuano

 

Top of 1st

Izturis F-7

DaVanon 1B (texas leaguer just over Overbay)

Quinlan FC 5-4

Rivera F-8

 

Bot of 1st

Clark 1B (caught stealing 2-6)

Hardy 2B

Overbay Go (Hardy advances to 3rd)

Lee K

 

Top of 2nd

Kotchman K (swinging at a slider)

Jose Molina 5-3

Merloni 1B

Pride INF 1B

Colon 1-3

 

Bot of 2nd

Jenkins K

Helms E-5

Hall 1-6-4-3

 

Top of 3rd

Izturis 1B (caught stealing 2-4)

DaVanon L-8

Quinlan 4-3

 

Bot of 3rd

Moeller 2B

Capuano Sac 5-3

Clark Sac-9 (Chad scores...1-0 Milwaukee)

Hardy Po-3

 

Top of 4th

Rivera K (swinging at high fastball)

Kotchman F-8

Jose Molina K

 

Bot of 4th

Overbay 4-3

Lee 4-3

Jenkins K

 

Top of 5th

Merloni K (swinging at high fastball)

Pride 4-3

Colon 5-3

 

Bot of 5th

Helms Po-3

Hall BB

Moeller BB

Capuano Swinging bunt U3 (runners advance)

Clark BB

Hardy L-3 (nice leaping play by Kotchman. Saved 3 runs according to Sutton)

 

Top of 6th

Izturis F-8

DaVanon K

Quinlan K

 

Bot of 6th Bret Prinz is now pitching

Overbay K

Lee 6-3

Jenkins 2B

Helms F-8

 

Top of 7th Cappie steal dealing

Rivera 5-3

Kotchman GR 2B

Josh Paul 1-3 (Kotch to 2nd)

Merloni 6-3

 

Cappie now has thrown 25 innings this spring and given up 3 earned runs! I think he's earned the #3 spot.

 

Bot of 7th Bret Prinz is still pitching

Hall K

Moeller 6-3

Durrington (PH for Capuano) K

 

Top of 8th Chad Paronto is now pitching for Milwaukee

Pride 6-3

Howard Kendrick 6-3

Izturis BB (Moeller throws in ball into CF. Iz to 3rd)

Peratos BB

Luke Allen BB

Mike Adams is coming onto pitch w/ bases loaded

Rivera 1B (scores 2...Angles lead 2-1) ... caught stealing on pick-off 1-6

 

Bot of 8th Jamie Woods now in for LA

Moss Inf 1B

Escobar F-8

Cirillo F-9

Macgruder F-9

 

Top of 9th

Kotchman F-7

Paul U3

Merloni ??

 

Bot of 9th

My computer died...turned it back to hear Chad Moeller hit a walk off 3 run homer ...Brewers win 4-2

[ajwcoke]

Wow, the Angels sure aren't putting their best foot forward today...

 

I look forward to seeing what JJ can do batting second

[7rebmun]

Yeah, no kidding. Capuano could throw a perfect game today and I would take it with a grain of salt. That's too bad. I'd like to have him take on the major leaguers.

[madtownbrew]

Yeah, if we lose to this Angels lineup today, I will officially sound the pannic button! Especially if our pitching staff gives up more than 5-6 runs to these guys. Actually, maybe more like 3-4 runs. It's basically our major league starters vs. Angels AAA team. We need to win boys!

[molitor fan]

I may be incorrect on Pride, but I believe every player in the lineup for the Angels today makes their opening day roster

[ajwcoke]

Judging from the past few games, and the fact that we've got Bill Hall, Lyle, and slightly-less-fat Wes Helms in the lineup today; anybody have an errors over/under? Seven?

[bigjase]

I think this will be the game that they play solid defense. Regular season is about to start, time to start playing like it!

[filthyfrog]

I think this will be the game that they play solid defense.

 

Man, it's sad that we have to make quotes like this. Remember when every game was the game to play solid defense?

[bigjase]

Has anybody heard anything about Miller? I see Chad got the start again today.

[madtownbrew]

Let's all say a prayer that we can get this kind of production out of Cappy during the regular season, and most importantly that he can remain healthy. I really liked what i saw out of him last year when he wasn't on the DL. If he stays healthy and pitches like this, we will at least have three solid pitchers in our rotation, which is a lot better than most seasons over the last 13 years.

[bigjase]

I was big on Cappy when he was heathly last year too. The guy had some good stuff. Hopefully one of the kids can come up and replace Santos and/or Glover.

[bigjase]

and he can bunt!!!http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[homer]

So I've been listening to all the games for free up until now and today they want me to pay for the 2005 season. Not sure what I did to deserve that.

[squarepusher]

[ So I've been listening to all the games for free up until now and today they want me to pay for the 2005 season. Not sure what I did to deserve that. ]

 

You must have paid for a 2004 subscription. That subscription expired today.

[bigjase]

Not sure if anybody saw this, but ESPN page 2 poked some fun at Hart's defense. Heres the link

 

sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=baseball/calendar/september/october

(Sept. 3)

 

They predicted us to fishish around .500 too.

[ThePurpleStorm]

Is anyone else getting nervous about the fact that we haven't been able to score many runs lately, especially since the regulars have started to play more?

This is starting to look like last year. Start out good, scoring alot of runs, then when we start playing our regulars, we can't score runs and start losing.

[madtownbrew]

I'm actually way more concerned with our bullpen, defense, and base running, than I am concerned about our offense.

[hardytheman]

Is anyone else getting nervous about the fact that we haven't been able to score many runs lately, especially since the regulars have started to play more?

 

 

I for one am not getting nervous because Im expecting our offense to be below average again this year. No surprise to me they arent doing well right now.

[spadepunk13]

We've faced some pretty good pitching recently (Zito, Colon, etc.), so i'm not that worried. If by late April we aren't scoring any runs, then i'll get concerned.

[chuckiehacks]

Its nice to see somebody turn in a strong outing this spring (other than our opponents, of course), but it wouldn't be a Brewer quality start without lack of run support...

[molitor fan]

Cappy's line (so far):

 

5 4 0 0 0 4

 

Yummy.

[madtownbrew]

All right Cappy, let's save some of this for the Cub game next week, buddy!

[brewers4eric]

Long time viewer, first time poster.

 

The information that is on this board is amazing. Thanks to all of you that have put the running box scores up this spring.

 

Light the coals, I'm ready for the season to start.