2006 opening day - Cards at Phillies

[Sberl]

Here's the thread, tomorrow at 2.05 pm (St. Louis time) Carpenter will face Lieber for the first Cardinal's game of 2006 season. Let's talk about it here!

[Gashouse6]

First win of the year.

[otis89]

Go Phillies! :p

Good, I can finally get rid of my stupid avatar tomorrow.

[Sberl]

First win of the year.

I hope, but I'm not so sure.
By the way, Phillies acquired today Dellucci from Texas, Tony has decided to go with Miles for the second baseman job and we have some bullpen concerns.

[Senior skittles]

J ROLL your streak ends tommorw!!!!!

[Sberl]

Lineups:
Cardinals
Eckstein SS
Encarnacion RF
Pujols 1B
Edmonds CF
Rolen 3B
Taguchi LF
Molina C
Miles 2B
Carpenter P

Phillies
Rollins SS
Nunez 3B
Abreu RF
Utley 2B
Burrell LF
Howard 1B
Rowand CF
Lieberthal C
Lieber P

[Sberl]

Wow, first win of the year! Great offense, average pitching, good fielding.
My opinions:
Eckstein: great as always, spectacular grab to start the season!
Encarnacion: 2 runs, 1 hit...nothing to say about him
Pujols: oh my God, he's ready, he's Albert! 2 hr, good defence except a dirt ball not picked up
Edmonds: good defense, average start on offense
Rolen: he's back!!! What a Grand Slam ladies and gentlemen! Welcome back Scott!
Taguchi: nothing special today
Molina: good defensively, not so bad at bat (2 hits)
Miles: surprise of the day, one hr shy of cycle! He does his job well on defense
Carpenter: first game of the year, not so dominant as we know him, but solid. The offense help him a lot today, hope to see Carp play as he knows on sunday
Bullpen: at one point I had a bad feeling about the game, but they controlled the game well. I liked Wainwright and Thompson, not Flores.

[Senior skittles]

Rollins....the cards pitching is just tooo good,..... im so sorry!