Spring Training Game 9 - Saturday Afternoon, March 3rd in Clearwater
Pirates 4, Phillies 3
Spring Training Game 10 - Saturday Afternoon, March 3rd in Bradenton
Record - 2-8
One Sentence Summary: The Phillies split their squad and dropped two games on Saturday.
What It Means: We've got a little more than three more weeks of spring training games to go before the games start to count.
What Happened: In Bradenton, Ben Lively threw three scoreless innings but reliever Brandon Leibrandt was touched for three runs in his 2/3 innings of work. In Clearwater, the offense couldn't get going against the Orioles, managing only three hits.
Featured Card: While battling some sort of hybrid cold/flu nonsense on Saturday, I had settled in to watch the Phillies-Orioles game on TV when our postal carrier delivered our shipment of 2018 Topps Heritage boxes. The four of us settled in for an afternoon of pack opening, and it was the most fun I've had opening baseball cards in quite a while. The sorting process is still underway, but that's all part of the fun of opening packs of cards.
Each of our boxes had a single card pack as a box topper and the wrapper indicated that an original 1969 Topps buyback card was included within. I was thrilled when the first buyback pack we opened was former Phillies manager Jim Fregosi. I was amused when the second buyback pack we opened was another Fregosi. I was annoyed when the third, fourth, fifth and sixth buyback packs we opened were also Fregosi. I'm chalking this one up to dumb luck and poor collation from Topps. While I would have liked to have added a few different buybacks to my collection, the six Fregosis won't diminish the fun we had opening the boxes.
Camp Head Count: 63
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