The honeymoon was not quite over in Harbor, but things were not off to a great start. Harbor, after winning the opener, lost the next 10 games. The press was starting to question the wisdom of hiring first time manager Casey Brooks. For his part, Brooks made no excuses. He could have mentioned that his star third baseman could not buy a hit. Same with his DH. However, that was not his way. He just calmly reminded the writers that, sure they had dug themselves a hole, but it was a long season. He put up a good front, but no one was more relieved than Brooks when the Robins finally broke out of their funk in game 12 of the season. They beat up on the Redwood City Peppers to the tune of 19 to zip. That took the heat off for a day anyway and Brooks hoped it would lead to a string of better luck.

5/2/2009, HRB09-RDW09
 
                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9     R  H  E   LOB DP
2009 Robins            0  0  5  5  0  4  1  4  0    19 23  0    11  1
2009 Peppers           0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0     0  6  1     9  1
 
Robbins              AB  R  H BI   AVG    Peppers              AB  R  H BI   AVG
McLouth           cf  5  2  4  2  .306    Drew,J            rf  4  0  1  0  .348
 Maybin           ph  2  1  2  1  .333    Jones,Ad          cf  4  0  1  0  .109
Escobar,Y         ss  4  1  1  3  .326    Ramirez,Ha        ss  4  0  1  0  .277
 Hernandez,Di     ph  2  1  1  1  .333     Gonzalez,Ale     ss  0  0  0  0  .000
Jones,C           3b  5  3  1  1  .130    Reynolds          3b  3  0  0  0  .225
Braun             lf  3  3  2  0  .347    Berkman           1b  2  0  1  0  .333
 Baldelli         ph  1  0  0  0  .000    Uggla             2b  3  0  1  0  .211
Ortiz,D           dh  5  1  2  4  .128    Anderson,G        lf  3  0  0  0  .175
LaRoche,Ad        1b  5  1  3  5  .280     Carroll,B        lf  1  0  0  0  .000
Prado             2b  6  1  1  1  .220    Ross,C            dh  4  0  1  0  .324
Baker,Jo          c   4  3  2  0  .227    Rodriguez,I       c   3  0  0  0  .175
Francoeur         rf  6  2  4  1  .191     Smith,Ja         ph  1  0  0  0  .000
                     48 19 23 19                               32  0  6  0
 
Robbins                          INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Buchholz         W 1-1           7.2  6  0  0  3  8 122  75  4.00
Masterson                        1.1  0  0  0  0  1  13  10  7.94
                                 9.0  6  0  0  3  9 135  85 
 
Peppers                          INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA
Wakefield        L 0-3           3.1  7  7  7  2  3  77  45 11.30
Byrdak                           1.2  2  3  3  3  0  36  15  7.20
Lindstrom                        1.0  6  4  4  2  1  43  24 12.00
Badenhop                         1.2  6  5  3  1  1  45  29 18.90
Okajima                          1.1  2  0  0  0  3  21  17  2.70
                                 9.0 23 19 17  8  8 222 130 
 
HRB: Maybin batted for McLouth in the 8th
     Hernandez,Di batted for Escobar,Y in the 8th
     Baldelli batted for Braun in the 8th
     Maybin moved to cf in the 8th
     Hernandez,Di moved to ss in the 8th
     Baldelli moved to lf in the 8th
RDW: Gonzalez,Ale inserted at ss in the 9th
     Carroll,B inserted at lf in the 9th
     Smith,Ja batted for Rodriguez,I in the 9th
 
E-Badenhop. 2B-McLouth, Braun 2, Ortiz,D, LaRoche,Ad, Francoeur 2, Maybin. 
HR-Escobar,Y(3), LaRoche,Ad(2). SB-McLouth 2(4). K-Escobar,Y, Jones,C 3, 
Braun, Ortiz,D, Prado, Hernandez,Di, Drew,J, Jones,Ad, Ramirez,Ha 2, 
Reynolds 2, Uggla 2, Rodriguez,I. BB-Escobar,Y, Jones,C 2, Braun, Ortiz,D, 
LaRoche,Ad, Baker,Jo 2, Berkman 2, Uggla. HBP-Braun, Reynolds. HB-Buchholz, 
Wakefield. 
GWRBI: McLouth
Temperature: 72, Sky: partly cloudy, Wind: in from right at 8 MPH.