Reporting From Spring Training 2010

After a frightful Friday the sun shone beautifully for today's game between the Blue Jays and the Atlanta Braves at the ESPN Wide World of Sports, spring training home of the Braves. It's about a 10 minute drive from where I stay but this was my first visit since we started coming down to Florida about 15 years ago.

The place is pretty impressive for a spring training site. It's not just for baseball - all sorts of events take place there. Today there were cheerleaders competing somewhere in the complex.

The stands were almost full today but I doubt that they ever have a sellout because there are grass banks down the left field line and beyond left field.

While the fans turned out there were a lot of Blue Jays missing including Overbay, Hill, Gonzalez and Bautista, basically the whole infield. Missing from the outfield were Wells and Lind, but Travis Snider was there and got a hit and scored a run.

Ricky Romero pitched four shutout innings though he seemed to tire a bit at the end. Behind him and the other Toronto pitchers the Jays turned three McCoy-Emaus-Dopirak double plays! Final score Jays 3 Braves 0.

Finally, anyone looking for a new car? How about this one on display at ESPN WWoS?