It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!!!!

Happy Opening Day!!!! It was great to see the Brewers get another victory on Opening Day 2008. It was a little shakier than Crew fans would've like it to be. But, you know what they say, a win is a win. Brewers prevailed in the 10th inning by winning 4-3.

After a rain delay of 90 minutes, the game started out as a pitching battle. Both Ben Sheets and Carlos Zambrano gave up one hit in the first inning. After that, each was pretty much untouchable even after sitting through a 45 minute rain delay. Sheets gave up one more hit over the next 5 and a third. Chuck Z gave up 2 more over the 5 and 2/3. Salomon Torres came in and finished the 7th inning for the Brewers with no hits. Guillermo Mota came in to pitch the 8th with 2 strikeouts and no hits allowed. Carlos Marmol finished the 7th inning for the Cubs and pitched the 8th as well. He struck out 3 Brewers while giving up no hits or walks. This is important information because I do have him on my rotisserie team.

Since both of these teams have very shaky closers, this is where the game got interesting. The Brewers came out and got 3 runs in the top half. Rickie Weeks was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning. Tony Gwynn came up next and bunted him over to second. Sweet Lou chose to walk Prince to pitch to Ryan Braun with the double play alive. Of course the Hebrew Hammer came through with a single to put the Crew up 1-0 with one out. Corey Hart then tripled to deep right to put the Brewers up 3-0 with Eric Gagne coming on to close it out.

Gagne came in and threw a first pitch strike. That was pretty much the high point of his outing. He then gave up a single to Derrick Lee. Then he walked Aramis Ramirez on 4 straight pitches. This brought up Fukodome who was 2-2 with a walk up to this point. He started by throwing 3 balls before pitching a strike to make the count 3-1. Then he grooved a fast ball to fucking Fukodome who knocked it out of the park to tie the game. He got out of the inning after giving up an infield single to the man with twisted testacles, Felix Pie. Pie hit a grounder to the herbavore Prince Fielder that he fielded cleanly. However, that French idiot Gagne did not cover first so that Prince could've flipped him the ball for the out. So, as Prince ran towards first, he chose to tag Pie. Fielder clearly has gone soft since becoming a vegetarian. Fielder could've tagged first with his foot and ran through the base, but most likely he would've killed Pie. The old, meat eating Fielder took no prisoners.

Ned Yost sent Craig Counsell out to pinch hit for Gagne to start the tenth. He doubled in his first at bat of the season. Rickie Weeks was up and got hit by another pitch for the second straight at bat. A sac fly from Tony Gwynn scored the winning run. David Riske came in and worked a 1-2-3 in the bottom to record the save.

Next up:
Wednesday, Wrigley Field 1:20pm
Brewers: Suppan vs. Cubs: Lilly