Biggest ovation of the day? Ramon Troncoso!
Okay, maybe not. But it might be the only time he makes a headline on the site, so why not capitalize on an opportunity?
More to come (in this very post), including about a half hour of Joe-dio and a nice interview with Don Newcombe, but before the game starts, I wanted to get the lineups posted. The lineups say everyone's batting .000, but I'm an optimist, and prefer to think of all the guys as batting 1.000. That's just how I roll.
GIANTS:
Dave Roberts (LF)
Rich Aurilia (1B)
Randy Winn (RF)
Bengie Molina (C)
Ray Durham (2B)
Aaron Rowand (CF)
Jose Castillo (3B)
Brian Bocock (SS, and one who was probably mocked a lot in grade school. You figure out why.)
Barry Zito (P)
DODGERS: Perhaps you heard Andre Ethier won the left field gig? Well, he slides into the lineup behind leadoff man Rafael Furcal. Looking at it, I think the Blue will put out what is the second best lineup in the division, and assuming Ethier, James Loney, and Matt Kemp are "as advertised," and they get a .270 season from Andruw Jones (as opposed to .228 or whatever), they should be able to put up enough runs.
Furcal (SS)
Ethier (LF)
Kemp (RF)
Jeff Kent (2B)
Andruw Jones (CF)
Russell Martin (C)
James Loney (1B)
Blake DeWitt (3B)
Brad Penny (P)
By the way, I hope you get a chance to watch some of the pregame activities, where they're bringing out different players, in uniform, from across the 50 year history of Dodgers baseball in Los Angeles. Very, very cool, and the players are all getting standing ovations from the crowd. Talking to Mr. Newcombe (he asked me to call him Don... but really, Don Newcombe has earned a Mr. Newcombe from an idiot like me) before the game, it was clear that being back in a Dodgers uniform, even if for a day, and for ceremonial purposes, was quite a treat.
BK
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Excellent start to the season for the at bat by Kent in the 1st inning. He fought off a lot of pitches to deposit pitch number 9 in the left field pavillion
Posted by: K T USN (Ret) | March 31, 2008 at 01:52 PM
Woohoo! First major league at bat, Blake gets a hit!
Posted by: akrasian | March 31, 2008 at 02:07 PM
Knowing that the Giants paid about a billion dollars for Zito makes me feel better about the Pierreless situation.
Posted by: wausroamer | March 31, 2008 at 02:10 PM
Furcal will be the Dodgers's MVP this year.
Posted by: bigyoonit | March 31, 2008 at 02:28 PM
Hendrickson is opening day pitcher for Marlins.
So far 5 innings-6 runs
Posted by: david | March 31, 2008 at 02:58 PM
The first pitcher Torre uses out of the pen? Scott Proctor. That'll sound familiar to Yankees fans (haha). Great effort from Penny. 6 2/3 of shutout ball, assuming Proctor can get out of the inning.
BK
Posted by: Brian Kamenetzky | March 31, 2008 at 03:32 PM
The 'streak' is over, now lets move on.
Posted by: david | March 31, 2008 at 04:36 PM
It was great to see all of the players in dodger history, as well I missed having people like davey lopez, kirk gibson, tommy john, burt hutton, charlie hough, mike sciocia and others that I may not remember right now.
I also want to mention that this was by far the best behaved Dodger crowd for a dodger/giant game. Only two fights that i saw I think that's a great step forward. I hata The giant and Barry bonds, but not having barry there yesterday was auckward, It wasn't the same. But I'm glad he's gone and won't cheat the game of baseball and the baseball fan. Dodger fans we have a parade in late october early november.
Posted by: rudy romo | April 01, 2008 at 05:33 PM