Errors, we've got errors

Just when I was thinking that Spring Training is about a week too long, the season openers have had so many errors that I wonder if some teams need to head back south and practice some more. Oakland’s loss to Seattle featured five errors. The Dodgers have taken two games from the Giants because of critical mistakes by San Francisco. The Texas Rangers moved Josh Hamilton to left field and inserted a center fielder who seems to think that his job is to run around and collide with fielders just as they are about to catch easy fly balls. Catcher Yorrvit Torrealba played like he had been put behind the plate for the first time and was wondering what to do. Come on guys. The season started. Play ball. And then there are the Astros, featured on national TV only because they were playing the Phillies. And for eight innings they did a pretty good job – comfortable lead, great starting pitching, got Roy Halliday out of the game early. Then came the bottom of the ninth. Now I don’t know a lot about body language, but everything about the ‘Stros closer said: I can’t do this. And he couldn’t, didn’t and the Astros manager inexplicably left him out there until they lost the game. Perhaps he, too, should go back to spring training and practice some more.