Several of them, in fact, and it appeared effortless. Blake DeWitt was taking them at 3B at the same time, and both players were throwing across to … Andruw Jones standing on 1B. All of this has to be a good sign, but I’m not sure exactly what it means in terms of the next step. I’ll try to find out when I get downstairs.

Here’s tonight’s lineup, with no Ethier or DeWitt. LaRoche starts against a RH
LF Pierre
CF Kemp
2B Kemp
C Martin
1B Loney
3B LaRoche
RF Young
SS Berroa
RH Lowe