Spring about to be sprung

Ahhh, at last.

here is the Cubs’ batting order for Thursday’s Cactus League opener at 2:05 Central Time

CubNut and Phil have lots of good stuff in their post today. Some key notes from BP include an impressive showing by Murton and Fukudome. And, IMO, the best hitter in Group 3 was a pitcher.

Henry Blanco
Eric Patterson
Ryan Theriot
Carlos Zambrano

Here's that batting order, from Suntimes.com

ss Theriot
3b Cedeno
rf Fukudome
1b Lee
lf Murton
c Soto
2b Cintron
cf Pie

Again, from the Sun Times, CubNut noted the following pitching line-up:

Dempster 2 innings
Gallagher 2
Ceda 1
Cotts 1
Pignatiello 1
Ascanio 1
Hart 1

Last night, I tested out my scripts and successfully loaded the pitch-by-pitch data from yesterday's games. No, there isn't a drop of PITCHf/x, just making sure stuff still works.