Game Today

Let me start with the pitching. Olsen looked good. He got a ton of groundouts. The only hit he gave up was a ground ball double down the 3rd base line to Pujols. He even threw to Rabelo so that should ease any fears that he  would be less effective working with Rabelo than with Treanor.

Thompson was getting hit hard when he faced the heart of the Cardinals order. He gave up a couple of doubles and loaded the bases with one out but got out of it. He looked much better in the 5th against the bottom of the order. I guess this is to be expected since he hasn't thrown a pitch in AA yet. I think he'll get there, it just might take more time. I was glad to see him pitch. I wanted to get a look at him, too.

Tankersley walked the bases loaded in his inning but got a double play and then struck out the next batter. With how well all of the relief pitchers did yesterday, he was probably the worst of them.

Other than that, Delgado, Pinto and Waechter all looked good except for that lead off triple that Delgado gave up.

Moving on to hitting, it was nice to see it return. Uggla doubled twice and Cantu hit a double himself.

Both catchers had good games at the plate. Rabelo was 1-3 with an RBI while Treanor, who was DHing, was 1-3 with a double, a walk and 2 RBI's. It could be tough to split up the playing time if they both keep playing like they have.

There was a scary moment in the first inning. After Hanley got the first of his two hits, Uggla doubled and Hanley tried to score from first. Molina blocked the plate and Hanley ran into him and looked like he hurt his ankle. I was much relieved to see him jogging out to short in the top of the 2nd. He also got to make a lot of plays at short as there were a lot of ground balls hit his way in the game.

It was another great game and great Marlins victory. I wish I could go to more but, sadly, I have to go back to work tomorrow. I wish I'd win the lotto so I could retire and go to Marlins games all year. That would be the life, especially since they went 4-0 in games that I attended.