4/8/05: Blanton vs. Bell

[A's Baby Girl]

Oakland at Tampa Bay

April 8, 2005: Tropicana Field, 4:15 PT

vs
Blanton: 0-0, 0.00Bell: 0-0, 0.00

Lineups

Oakland Athletics

Tampa Bay Devil Rays

1. Mark Kotsay

1. Crawford

2. Jason Kendall

2. Green

3. Eric Chavez

3. Huff

4. Erubiel Durazo

4. Phelps

5. Scott Hatteberg

5. Lee

6. Eric Byrnes

6. Lugo

7. Mark Ellis

7. Cantu

8. Nick Swisher

8. Hall

9. Marco Scutaro

9. Gathwright

[A's Baby Girl]

Blanton's first major league start. Damn I wish I could watch this on Tv. Luckily, he's starting against one of the league's bottom feeders. Good luck Joe!

[A'sDiehard]

It will be very interesting see what Blanton has tonight. The focus of the spring seemed to be on Haren, Meyer and the fifth starter. I didn't hear anything about Blanton.

[Providence A's]

no news is good news...I think he did well in ST and earned the 4th spot early on, so that's why we didn't hear much

[A'sDiehard]

Welp, so far this team looks flat tonight. It's 2-0 D-Rays, top 3. Blanton is getting knocked around a bit.

[A's Baby Girl]

Blanton's pitch count is high too...60 pitches and we're only in the third

Top half over

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Bottom third

Kendall, Chavez, Durazo

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My bad, Top 4th

Kendall just singled

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2-0 on Chavy

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3-0 on Chavy

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Chavy just walked

Runners on first and second

Durazo's up

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Durazo flied out, Kendall advances to third. Hatteberg up

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1-1 on Hatty

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Hatteberg singles Kendall home

2-1 TB

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Runners on first and second

Byrnes is up