I actually tried to watch some of that game on foxsports. They were up 14 in the 7th and the back of my eye lids were more inviting. Betencourt and Gomoz both had decent games at the plate!
National League
Team W L PCT GB
San Francisco 9 3 .750 -
Atlanta 7 3 .700 1.0
St. Louis 6 3 .667 1.5
Washington 5 3 .625 2.0
Cincinnati 6 4 .600 2.0
Milwaukee 6 4 .600 2.0
Colorado 5 4 .556 2.5
Florida 4 4 .500 3.0
San Diego 4 4 .500 3.0
Philadelphia 5 6 .455 3.5
Pittsburgh 5 6 .455 3.5
NY Mets 4 5 .444 3.5
Chi Cubs 4 6 .400 4.0
LA Dodgers 4 7 .364 4.5
Arizona 4 9 .308 5.5
Houston 2 8 .200 6.0
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Brewers' bats erupt for 15 runs on 25 hits
Almonte, Boggs combine to go 8-for-10 with four runs, six RBIs
By Mark Sheldon / MLB.com | 03/07/11 7:04 PM EST
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- The Brewers scattered a whopping 25 hits and took an early lead as they cruised to a 15-2 win over the Reds on Monday at Goodyear Ballpark.
It was a tough day to be in the field for the defense, as the wind was blowing to right field at 29 mph with gusts over 35 mph.
Brewers starter Yovani Gallardo pitched three scoreless innings, allowing two hits, no walks and five strikeouts. "It was pretty tough. I guess it's kind of weird here in Arizona," Gallardo said of the wind. "I think I threw the ball pretty good. My fastball command was good to both sides of the plate [and] I was able to go up in the strike zone whenever I needed to. Everything worked pretty good."
Gallardo worked with the fastball mostly because he didn't want to show the Reds all of his off-speed stuff, as these two clubs will meet in the opening series of the season. This was his second spring start, and he called it a positive step.
"Definitely was," he said. "In my first start, command was a little off and I threw balls a little too much over the plate. Today was better. I have to keep moving forward, get a little bit better each time out."
Reds starter Homer Bailey gave up four runs and six hits over 2 2/3 innings, striking out three in the process.
In the second inning, Brandon Boggs took a 2-0 Bailey pitch deep to right for a one-out solo home run. Milwaukee did a lot of damage in the three-run third inning with five-straight two out hits.
Jeremy Reed chased Bailey with his RBI single in the third and Jeremy Horst let two more runs in with singles by George Kottaras and Brandon Boggs.
"You get the wind blowing out and you expect games to be like this," Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said. "But you still have to hit the ball hard, and we had a lot of guys hitting the ball hard."
Mike Leake, a Reds rotation candidate, was touched up for four runs and nine hits over three innings.
During a seven-run Milwaukee seventh inning, Carlos Gomez hit a solo homer to left field with one out. A couple of batters later, Erick Almonte notched his third hit of the game with a two-run homer to right field. In his last two games, Almonte is 7-for-9 with three RBIs and three runs scored.
Bray gave up seven runs on six hits over two-thirds of an inning.
"Man, this game is hard to figure," Reds manager Dusty Baker said. One day everything goes right and the next day everything goes wrong. I guess that's why it's called spring."
Brewers closer John Axford followed Gallardo and pitched a scoreless fourth inning with two strikeouts.
Kameron Loe follwed Axford and delivered his first multiple-inning outing of the spring. Loe pitched two scoreless innings, allowing one hit and striking out two. In the bottom of the seventh, the Reds finally got on the scoreboard when outfield prospect Dave Sappelt hit a homer to left field against Zach Braddock.
Up next for Brewers: Ryan Braun and Prince Fielder should return to action for the Brewers after taking Monday off, and the club has a hole in its schedule for starting pitchers, so reliever Takashi Saito will start against the Dodgers at Maryvale Baseball Park. It was supposed to be a matchup of Japanese pitchers, but the Dodgers' Hiroki Kuroda is starting a "B" game instead. Los Angeles pitching coach Rick Honeycutt explained that Kuroda's turn also falls on March 19, the day the Dodgers play Milwaukee in Glendale, and Honeycutt didn't want Kuroda facing the same club twice.
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