Amazingly, Niese is now through 5 and has just thrown 25 effing pitches. Even more amazing, 24 strikes, 1 ball! The Braves swung at the first pitch each of the first 10 (!) hitters and 18 times in 5 innings! The Braves players must have tickets to a Toby Keith concert right after the game or something. (Edit: think all that shit is right, I'm just going thru the box score...) pitch counts are not correct for gameday in Spring Training. Niese finished with I think 74 pitches and 49 strikes. Rauch came in and got two grounders, Turner to the plate for the first out, simple 4-3 for the second. Thanks Dan. Dan drove in 2 in thebottom of the inning and we're up 2-0.