Today the Chicago Cubs are playing their first “game” of the season. This, of the intrasquad, six-ish-inning variety. Still, it’s baseball, right?
The lineups for the game (which you can catch at HoHoKam for free if you’re in Mesa – it starts at 1 pm local time):
Team A, for which Travis Wood will start:
1. Alfonso Soriano, LF (seriously – fortunately, this doesn’t really much matter)
2. Ian Stewart, 3B
3. Starlin Castro, SS
4. Bryan LaHair, 1B
5. Marlon Byrd, CF
6. David DeJesus, RF
7. Blake Lalli, C
8. Darwin Barney, 2B
9. Blake DeWitt, DH
Team B, for which Randy Wells will start:
1. Brett Jackson, CF
2. Matt Szczur, RF
3. Jeff Baker, 2B
4. Anthony Rizzo, 1B
5. Reed Johnson, LF
6. Josh Vitters, 3B
7. Junior Lake, SS
8. Michael Brenly, C
9. Tony Campana, DH
(h/t Carrie Muskat)