Opening Day at McKechnie Field

(photo by John Lembo)

It's chilly and and it's windy here at McKechnie Field, but it's no raining.

So let there be baseball!

This is John Lembo, blogging live as the Pirates prepare to play their Grapefruit League home-opener against the Toronto Blue Jays, who are back wearing their awesome retro unis.

(More on that later...)

So here are the lineups:

BLUE JAYS

Rajai Davis, cf

Travis Snider, lf

Ben Francisco, rf

Brett Lawrie, 3b

David Cooper, 1b

J.P. Arencibia, dh

Luis Valbuena, 2b

Jeff Mathis, c

Adeiny Hechavarria, ss

Aaron Laffey, p

PIRATES

Alex Presley, lf

Nate McLouth, rf

Andrew McCutchen, cf

Rod Barajas, c

Garrett Jones, 1b

Matt Hague, dh

Pedro Alvarez, 3b

Chase d'Arnaud, 2b

Anderson Hernandez, ss

Erik Bedard, p