Friday, February 29, 2008

Starting lineups

Here the lineups, live from McKechnie:

Phillies

1. Shane Victorino, cf
2. Eric Bruntlett, ss
3. Geoff Jenkins, rf
4. Ryan Howard, 1B
5. Pat Burrell, lf
6. Pedro Feliz, 3B
7. Wes Helms, DH
8. Jason Jaramillo, c
9. Casey Smith, 2B
J.D. Durbin, P

OK, so there's no Chase Utley and no Jimmy Rollins. But Ryan Howard, who hit a home run yesterday in Clearwater that landed somewhere in Fort Lauderdale, is in the lineup. And only one of the starting nine - Casey Smith - has a number in the 70s.

Pirates

1. Nyjer Morgan, cf
2. Jack Wilson, ss
3. Freddy Sanchez, DH
4. Jason Bay, lf
5. Ryan Doumit, c
6. Steve Pearce, rf
7. Jose Bautista, 3b
8. Doug Mienktiewicz, 1b
9. Luis Rivas, 2b
Ian Snell, P

Jason Bay returns to the Pittsburgh lineup, adding muscle to a lineup lacking boppers such as Xavier Nady and Adam LaRoche. My money is on Bay garnering the biggest first at-bat cheers - but don't sleep on veteran Jack Wilson.

Should be interesting...

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