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Braves Handle UGA
Written by Akshay on February 28, 2008 – 7:23 amThe Braves opened spring training today on a good note for Braves fans–an eight run victory over the Georgia Bulldogs at Disney. Of course, it’s been a while since a college team has actually beat a major league team. That was Miami beating Florida about two or three years ago, that game has a stipulation though–Miami used aluminum bats, college teams no longer do that against Major League teams.
The Braves started their “A” line-up against the Bulldogs and handed top-pitching prospect Charlie Morton the ball for the start. Morton threw two innings of solid ball giving up just one hit. Zach Schreiber followed Morton with his own two shut-out innings. Schreiber gave up two hits, but had three strikeouts. Jorge Campillo pitched two innings and gave up two hits as well. He was followed by Francisely Bueno (2 innings) and Basner pitched the final inning.
Mark Teixiera got things off to a good start in the first with an RBI single. Escobar reached on an error after Kelly Johnson popped out. Chipper walked to put Escobar in scoring position and Tex’s RBI single gave the Braves the lead for good.
Former Marlin Joe Borchard had two hits and scored three runs as the designated hitter and one of the top-outfield prospects for the Braves, Gregor Blanco had a double and two-RBIs in the fifth. Josh Anderson had two hits for the Braves as well.
For the Bulldogs, Josh Fields threw a scoreless inning. For those of you who don’t remember, Fields was a second round pick for the Braves last year. Unfortunately, they did not offer Fields the kind of money the former second-round pick was looking for and he returned to Athens to continue to play for UGA.
In other news around the division, the Mets lost to the Tigers 4-2 (a trend we would all love to see continue, but of course, it’s only preseason), and the Phillies knocked off the Reds 8-1. The Nationals and Marlins played to a 3-3 tie.
Next up, the Braves play Andruw Jones and the Dodgers today at 1:05 PM in their first true game of spring training. The starting infield and Mark Kotsay however, won’t be making the trip, staying behind at Disney to get ready to Friday’s televised game (ESPN). For today’s game, look for Tim Hudson to make the start with Boyer, Resop, DeSalvo and Acosta to fill out the day’s pitching.
Tags: Bulldogs, Exhibition, UGA, Victory
Posted in Game Analysis | 2 Comments »
By Jonathan on Feb 28, 2008 | Reply
Well I must say I’m glad to see that we’re finally back into playing games. It seems like forever since last season. Now if we can just get the Mets to continue to lose throughout the season, though the Tigers are a pretty stout team. Either way, it’s baseball season, folks. The best time of the year.
By Jonathan on Feb 2, 2009 | Reply
Well I must say I'm glad to see that we're finally back into playing games. It seems like forever since last season. Now if we can just get the Mets to continue to lose throughout the season, though the Tigers are a pretty stout team. Either way, it's baseball season, folks. The best time of the year.