Opening Series: Marlins & Nats, game 2 = 7pm start

[Lane1974]

anticipated lineup:

Marlins

1] Hanley Ramirez - SS
2] Dan Uggla - 2B
3] Miguel Cabrera - 3B
4] Josh Willingham - LF
5] Mike Jacobs - 1B
6] Joe Borchard - RF
7] Miguel Olivo - C
8] Alejandro De Aza - CF
9] Dontrelle Willis - P

Nats

1] Felipe Lopez - 2B
2] Christian Guzman - SS
3] Ryan Zimmerman - 3B
4] Austin Kearns - RF
5] Dmitri Young - 1B
6] Brian Schneider - C
7] Ryan Church - LF
8] Nook Logan - C
9] John Patterson - P

[Flash3]

Borchard is our RF?

[Lane1974]

while Hermida is injured, Borchard and Ross will platoon

[Flash3]

I should've put it in green font. lol

Either way, Borcard did have some nice games for us last season, with the glove and with the bat. Whether he can hold the load down for the month or so Hermida is supposed to be out, is a big question.

[Bow2Yao11]

Julio needs to get some saves for my fantasy team. The Nationals offense and pitching staff is very weak. Very easy series for the Fish.

[WashWiz54]

Hello Marlin fans, I'll probably be your one and only troll for the next few days so I'll make myself at home. You get to face what I consider our only three competent pitchers (Patterson, Hill, Chico.) Patterson is Patterson, he is a real nice pitcher, but not exactly an ace. He however will get you the W if you give him a bit of run support, sadly I don't know if this team can do that. Hill is next and he has done very well in the preseason. Before this however he was flat out bad so we'll see how he does in the regular season. Chico is next and we have high expectations for him here in Washington. This will be his first real test so I'm hoping to see some real promise from this kid.

Go Nats!

[BigBallingMIA]

Go Fish, hopefully i catch them at 1.

[Flash3]

Are they going to reshow the game again?

I got class tommorow, and won't be home till 7ish.

[Lane1974]

1-0 us in the top of the first

w00t!

Hanley led off with a ground rule double, Uggla flied out, Han Ram stole 3rd, Cabs walked, Jacobs singled in Hanley, Willy flew out, Borchard K'd to end the inning

[Lane1974]

DTrain got the 1st two easily, Zimmerman tripled on a hit that (on the radio) sounds like Borchard might have misplayed, got the 3rd out on a lineout back to the pitcher.

After 1, 1-0 us, 11 pitches for D-Train, 25 for Patterson

[Lane1974]

Olivo with a basehit to lead off the 2nd

DeAza flies out to left

D-Train grounds out to third, Zimmerman fell on his ass and still threw Willis out from his tuchus (Olivo to 2nd)

HanRam safe on a bang-bang play at 1st, promptly steals 2nd (man on 2nd and 3rd) - 2nd SB for Hanley (he is *so* going to have a ginormous year)

Uggla up with 2 out, walks, Cabrera up with bases loaded, ground rule double! Two in, Uggla to 3rd (sucks, that ground rule cost us a run)

3-0

Jacobs up, flies out to center to end the top of the 2nd inning

[Lane1974]

bottom of 2nd, Nats leave 2 men on

3-0

Patterson gets Willingham, Borchard, and Olivo 1-2-3 in the top of the 3rd

Bottom of third

Lopez base hit to lead off

Guzman with a grounder, they get the lead runner on the fielder's choice

6-3 Double play to end the inning

still 3-0 after 3

[unowen85]

Damn. Hanley is on fiyah. De Aza got that pitcher nervous.

[unowen85]

Two run home run by Miguel, 6-0 Fish. That's four RBI's for Miguel.

[Lane1974]

Two run home run by Miguel, 6-0 Fish. That's four RBI's for Miguel.

caught Miggy's HR on TV, it was a moon shot

[Bleeding Green]

LOL @ Hanley Ramirez making a mockery of the Nationals. 4-4, 2 2B, 2 SB, 4 runs.

Oh, and just as I say it, he grounds out.

[Lane1974]

Uggla with an upper decker HR

[Lane1974]

LOL @ Hanley Ramirez making a mockery of the Nationals. 4-4, 2 2B, 2 SB, 4 runs.

Oh, and just as I say it, he grounds out.

BG, what is the Red Sox nation's view on the Beckett-Hanley trade? I still love Beckett's stuff and think he'll have a great year this year after adjusting last year, and Mikey Lowell had a nice season last year


obviously no one could have predicted Hanley's historic season last year or Anibal's no hitter

[Bleeding Green]

I don't know about everyone else, but I absolutely hate the trade. Mike Lowell had an OK season and Beckett has potential to be great or put up a string of 5.00 ERA seasons, but combined they make about 20 million dollars this season and Hanley Ramirez is an All-Star making about 350K.

If they had Hanley, they wouldn't have dropped 40 million on Lugo, and could have instead spent it in the bullpen or something. They'd have the 20th pick in this upcoming draft, a decent #5 in Anibal Sanchez, plus the money saved paying Beckett and Lowell. Only problem they'd have would have been getting a 3B last year, or a 1B if Youkilies were to slide over to third.

Hate it, hate it, hate it.

I think every trade Florida made last year was brilliant. And when they trade Willis, they're going to rip some other franchise off. I don't know how they plan to handle Cabrera, though. Can they afford to give him an A-Rod contract?

[Lane1974]

I think they trade Cabrera for a ransom in the offseason before or the middle of the 2009 season (they control his rights until the end of 09), same with Willis, but I think they trade him after this season. I can't see them paying Cabrera the 10 year/$200M he's going to command. It'll kill me to see Cabrera go, and while Willis is great, they have a lot of arms in the minors to try and step in at 1/20th the cost, assuming Willis makes $10M next year.