Jaime Garcia, LHP

Season 1-0, 3.00 ERA More Stats

After allowing two first-inning runs, Garcia settled in to blank the Brewers over the next five innings of his first start. His success was largely the result of mixing pitches, finding a better rhythm and smoothing out his delivery.

CIN vs Jaime Garcia (Last 5 Years)

Hitter AVG AB HR RBI
Bruce, Jay .125 16 0 0
Cairo, Miguel .286 7 0 0
Cozart, Zack .333 3 0 0
Hanigan, Ryan .273 11 0 1
Harris, Willie .667 3 0 0
Heisey, Chris .125 8 0 0
Ludwick, Ryan .000 4 0 0
Mesoraco, Devin - - - -
Phillips, Brandon .217 23 1 4
Rolen, Scott .154 13 0 1
Stubbs, Drew .294 17 1 2
Valdez, Wilson .333 3 0 0
Votto, Joey .125 16 0 1

Johnny Cueto, RHP

Season 1-0, 0.00 ERA More Stats

Cueto was stellar on Opening Day with seven shutout frames in a win vs. Miami. Picking up from 2011, Cueto had a quick tempo and kept the ball down to induce ground balls and speedy outs. He threw 95 pitches, but said he could've gone another inning.

STL vs Johnny Cueto (Last 5 Years)

Hitter AVG AB HR RBI
Beltran, Carlos .364 11 1 4
Berkman, Lance .280 25 2 7
Carpenter, Matt - - - -
Cruz, Tony 1.000 1 0 1
Descalso, Daniel .000 3 0 0
Freese, David .250 16 0 4
Furcal, Rafael .333 3 1 1
Greene, Tyler .333 3 0 0
Holliday, Matt .350 20 0 5
Jay, Jon .533 15 2 5
Komatsu, Erik - - - -
Molina, Yadier .292 24 1 4
Robinson, Shane - - - -

Lets hope today is the beginning of The REST of the season. No more contract shite, no one year window shite. Just play ball

Cueto better pitch a shutout this lineup outside of Cozart, Votto, and Bruce is terrible. Frazier should've made this team after leading the team in hr and rbi in ST.

Why bat Ludwick 4th? Bruce? ever?

Jaime Garcia is a LHP. Bruce and Votto are Left Handed Hitters. It makes sense to break them up with a Right Handed hitter. In this lineup Luddy is the best choice.

Also, really makes sense late in the game with a lefty reliever, forcing more personnel changes on the cards having to face a RHH in the 4 hole between the 2..

right, I never thought of that...even though Bruce is never batted 4th. db would do whatever it took to never have consecutive lefties...I'll concede against garcia but this will be the lineup against righties too.

Cueto looked pretty good in the first, some pitches up.

If Cueto dominates and wins today I will change my name back to CuetoTheAce_47 again.

It's nice to leave the first inning without a deficit.

true that

Jaime Garcia had TJ surgery. I'm starting to think that top pitching prospects should just start getting precautionary TJ surgery.

I don't have an answer for that. It does seem wrong and unfair to the defending champion who should get to celebrate in front of their fans.

Conspiracy from the networks.