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Barons 3rd inning: Beckham hit a liner to LF, guy made a diving catch. Flowers singled. Allen doubled to rf (awesome he can hit lefties and run) Viciedo sac fly (RBI 10), Allen to third Cook homered 4-0 Gartrell k'd

Hudson has 11 k's in 6 innings.

Single for Shelby, double for Beckham in the LF corner. Beck did have a failed bunt attempt, but made up for it. Sac fly for Flowers. Beckham also tagged and got into third. Allen K's. Viciedo grounded out. Kanny: Hudson 5 inn, 1 hit, 1 walk, 9 k's

Here goes Dan Hudson...4 k's in 2 innings. What's up with the Sally League? Is it good pitching or bad hitting? I mean, when Ken Williams Jr is your third best hitter with a .245 average...

Yeah, I would say it would take Mark having a great stretch from ages 30-34. Maybe 90 wins during that time. A couple top 5 Cy's, another championship...in other words...probably not going to happen.

http://www.cbs42.com/content/wakeup/story/...J-1YRTje4Q.cspx

Birmingham wins 8-1.

Winston-Salem won 9-4 Johnnie Lowe 7 inn, 6 hits, 3 er, 1 bb, 5 Ks

Lucas Harrell: 7 inn, 8 hits, 1 run, 0 BB, 6 Ks Marrero--another double. Hitting .405. Shelby homered. Every Baron has a hit today.

Flowers went deep. W-S: Danks 2-4, 2B, BB, R, RBI .329 He's really having an impressive season.

Charlotte wins 9-1. W-S: Brent Morel -5th homer.

Back-to-back RBI doubles for Beckham and Flowers. Both opposite field. Single for Allen. 2-RBI double for Dayan Viciedo. Good to see him heating up. 5-0 Barons

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Apr 29, 2009 -> 01:09 PM) Nope...the runner was picked off leaving early from first (on a steal attempt), Harrell noticed it, they had the runner caught between first and 2nd, then the runner from 3rd broke for home and they caught him in a rundown after the throw from Gordo. Ah. I misread the description.

Looks like Beckham threw a runner out at home on a 1st and 3rd steal situation. Nix 2-3, 2 BB. Wouldn't surprise me a bit if he's in Arlington on Friday night.

Carlos Torres is the anti-Marquez. 6 innings, 1 run. ERA at 1.17.

Another 3-run homer for Phillips. 9-1 Charlotte, 5th inning.

3 run homer for Andy Phillips.

Here is his opening day interview. Nothing great. http://www.cbs42.com/content/wakeup/story/...CEpOR8g96w.cspx

Charlotte- 0-0, 2nd inning. Carlos Torres on the mound. His ERA is still under 1.00. Kannapolis- Up 2-0, 6th inning. Dexter Carter putting up 0's. 6 K's. Birmingham starts at 11:35CT. Lucas Harrell starts. Winston-Salem starts soon. Johnnie Lowe starts. Facing pitcher J. Mariotti.

Santeliz faced 4 batters. Struck out 4. Barons lose 2-0. They ran into some good pitching tonight.

Kannapolis won. Leesman 3-0, 1.78. Birmingham down 2-0 top 8. Santeliz making his 2009 debut. Replaced Poreda with runners on 2nd and 3rd. Struck out two batters to get out of it. Final line for Poreda- 6.1 inn, 5 hits, 2 runs, 2 walks, 3 k's ERA at 2.01 Beckham 0-1, 2 BB

7:11 Anderson leading off. PK DH, Betemit at 1B.

QUOTE (Kalapse @ Apr 28, 2009 -> 03:52 PM) Eh, I miss the conference call. I get why they're doing it but I prefer the old school approach where you can knock out the first few rounds in no time at all and move on with your day. The made for TV bulls*** does nothing for me, you don't need 5+ minutes to pick a player when you can't trade picks. I agree 100%. Especially now that it's over 3 days...GMAFB. I'll care less this year than ever.

QUOTE (knightni @ Apr 28, 2009 -> 02:58 PM) I hope that Selig, players and fans can be there. Kind of like NFL or NBA. Or like last year, when it was on ESPN.

I'm sure Betemit will start in Game 2.