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Snyder and Bell out of the game; nothing screwy going on, it's their equivalent to the All Star game, so they're trying to get everyone in.

On the other hand, I am no longer interested.

Snyder's on deck. Must be the DH now.

Edit: Real nice line drive single. Caught it on video if you missed it. :D

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Found Brandon's diving play on mlb.com

http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=7126045 (video)

http://mlb.mlb.com/search/media.jsp?text=brandon%20snyder&start=0&hitsPerPage=12&hitsPerSite=10 (index)

Call me biased but that was the best defensive play of the night. :clap3: Actually, no...don't call me biased. That WAS the best defensive play of the night. :)

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Found Brandon's diving play on mlb.com

http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=7126045 (video)

http://mlb.mlb.com/search/media.jsp?text=brandon%20snyder&start=0&hitsPerPage=12&hitsPerSite=10 (index)

Call me biased but that was the best defensive play of the night. :clap3: Actually, no...don't call me biased. That WAS the best defensive play of the night. :)

Thanks for the link. It is worth noting that Snyder was playing in at the corner and still made that play. The more I see of Snyder and Bell the more I want them starting in Baltimore come early June.

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I too missed the Snyder hit. He did look very patient though at the plate for every AB that I saw. Scheppers looked really good, it would be interesting to see if he had the same confidence if he was pitching in the ML. I have never seen a pitcher hop around like that before when he was pitching. It looked like the kid on that movie with Keanu Reeves in it, Hardball when he was listening to the Biggie song with headphones on when he was pitching....and was dancing.....Leake looked really good too, I can see how he had so much success. Really wish I could have had a chance to see Erbe pitch though....

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