31.   Johnson said he hoped to use the one-time Dodgers closer in a spring game late in the week.

32.   Larkin has played only four games this spring due to a sore right groin.

33.   Kehoe recalls watching Buchanon become almost invisible as a free safety in a high school spring game.

34.   Nebraska coach Tom Osborne suspended him for a week of practice and the spring game.

35.   No big deal, except that this was during a spring exhibition game.

36.   Players, for the most part, have been restrained in their criticism of the fill-in umpiring during spring games.

37.   RB Jabari Davis missed the spring game with a high ankle sprain.

38.   Spring games and performances can be meaningless, but the individual efforts have not shown any sign of a hangover.

39.   Stocked trout are the best spring game, though the smallmouth bass and yellow perch hang in there as the season warms.

40.   Thalblum started as an autograph hound at San Francisco Giants spring games when the team trained in Scottsdale, chasing Willie McCovey, Will Clark and Bobby Bonds.