First Full Squad practice took place on Saturday and Spring Training officially went live.
Live BP, Live Fastballs, & Live Weather.
The morning started with a 30 minute delay to the field for a kick off team meeting. The fans were waiting eagerly to see if practice was going to happen at all due to the grey skies and forecasts of rain. Some scattered droplets fell during the delay, but as nature would have it, it started to drizzle just as the players came out of the dugout. Luckily, it only lasted a couple minutes and stopped for the remainder of practice while we were there.
Bochy wasted no time by setting up 2 fields for live BP. The main field showcased Tim Lincecum, scheduled to face Pat Burrell, Aubrey Huff, DeRosa, and Stewart. Timmy’s stuff was live and looked great from our vantage point. This is a welcome sight as the last 2 years it’s taken Tim some time to get back to form. Last year I can remember him skying 3 balls in to the stands just playing catch with Bengie. Others that pitched were Guillermo Mota, & Matt Yourkin on the main field and Matt Cain, Barry Zito, and Jose Casilla on the practice field. There were probably more, but we left early due to weather and hunger.
Baggs or Hank can fill you in on the specifics of today, I wasn’t paying much attention since I was going back and forth trying to snap photos.
I also grabbed another pocket video of Lincecum. Nothing special and relatively boring since I couldn’t get the batter in the shot due to the BP cage. Check it out HERE.
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