K.B.'s Baseball Blog

Three spring training games, all exhibition games, were held yesterday, starting off the 2008 baseball season. Each of those three games had a major league team playing against a collage team.

The New York Mets, who some say have the best team in all of baseball, played university of Michigan at Port St. Lucie, Florida and surprisingly just tied them 4-4. UM was actually ahead of the mets going into the bottom of the nine with a scored of 4-2, but the Mets were able to get a couple points ion the bottom of the nine to tie the game up.

But over in Lakeland Florida, the Detroit Tigers where whooping up on the Florida Southern Collage. After the nine inning of slaughter, Detroit came out with a 17-4 win after hitting 5 homeruns.
And at the Florida Marlins camp in Jupiter Florida, the Marlins took a 7-2 win over the university of Miami, even though UM out hit Florida 10-8. Marlin’s minor league player Lee Mitchell hit a pinch-hit homerun in the 6th.

So with those games in the books, its time to let the real spring training game begin. The first non-exhibition games will start at 11:05 CT when the Mets play the Tigers and the Phillies take on the Reds. Also, the White Sox will play the National League champion Rockies, and the Royal will play the Rangers, both game starting at 2:05 CT. And at 6:05 CT, the Nationals will take on the Marlins. And along with all those game, the Pirates, Cardinals and Braves will each play their first exhibition games.

The Cardinals will be play the St. Louis University Billikens and will have minor league pitcher Mitchell Boggs sent to the hill to start the game for them. Several other minor league pitchers are scheduled to pitch in the game and lefty Chris Perez is scheduled to close out the game in the 9th.

And looking ahead to tomorrow, when almost ever major league team will play a spring training game, the Cardinals will be taking on their first major league team, as they play the Mets. The Cardinals will have a tough one as they go up against the veteran John Maine. Going up against him will be the Cardinals “ace” Adam Wainwright. The game is scheduled to start at 12:05 CT.

So with it all starting all over again, its time for a whole new ballgame. Here’s to a great 2008 season.