The relievers all looked great! Gregg is just nasty. The two hitters he struck out looked completely lost. Only Nestor and Keppel gave up hits and they were of the ground ball variety. In fact, Castillo made yet another great defensive stop on the ground ball hit to him but the throw was too late to get the runner at first. Willimas and Lindstrom both walked a batter but stranded their runners at first. I would say the bullpen has a great chance of being another bright spot this year, just like last year.

Trahern on the other hand, looks like he needs some more time. He was all over the place with his control. He walked three guys, gave up a few hard hit balls and ended up being pulled after he loaded the bases in the second. The Cards didn't even have their heavy hitters out there, either. No Pujols, no Glaus, no Molina; they had mainly backups and roster guys that will probably start in the minors in there lineup today.

The offense was a little lacking today but it was just enough to get us the win. De Aza was just short of having his third homer in three days and Brett Hayes almost hit a homer of his own but it hooked foul down the third base line. Uggla hit a rocket for his single in the first inning. Besides that, we really got helped out by the three errors made by the Cardinals.

I was just a little curious why La Rusa had his starting pitchers trying to go three innings. This is the third spring training game I've been to and every team so far has had there starters go 2 innings (if they could last that long).

What I didn't like was when I went up to the guy to buy a program, he had Cardinals programs laid out on the counter and, seeing me in my Marlins hat and jersey, asked me if I wanted a Marlins program and then had to take it out of a rubber banded stack. I thought this was our home game? Oh well. Such is life as a Marlins fan.

Tomorrow should be a good game. Olsen is starting and hopefully the Cards will throw out some actual hitters for us to face.