Game Today

As for Mitre, he was not close to the strike zone most of the time. This was before he said that his elbow got stiff. He didn't appear to be in any pain. Hopefully that's a good sign.

The error Cantu made was a routine pop-up in the infield that was in and out of his glove.

The grand slam from de Aza was one of those that you knew it was gone after it left his bat. Cody's 3-run homer was great, too.

The game had 14 walks and 3 hit batters between both teams. Seems like it must still be early spring training rust that needs to come off. A lot of guys were missing by a lot and there were a lot of full counts.

This was the first time I had a chance to see Andrew Miller and I wasn't disappointed. He did pretty well even though he, too was having control issues.

Sinkbeil's sinker sounds like the batter is trying to hit a shotput with a 2x4. He was doing well until he hit Terrero and then it seemed like that shook him up a little. He had some pretty long battles with some hitters which drove up his pitch count which is why I think he was pulled early in the 9th. In fact, Carvajal was up in the bottom of the 8th. I didn't think that Sinkbeil was even coming back out.

Hanley's speed is just awesome! He was clearly safe when he stole both second and third and his speed is what caused Ramon Hernandez to hurry his throw to third which caused him to make a bad throw that ended up in the outfield.

As a side note, I was sitting between a couple of Orioles fans from Fort Worth and a guy from Toronto that is a Blue Jays fan. All in all, interesting day and a great game.