Four Brewers tape episode for CBS soap opera

He also explained the differences between right and left-handed pitchers. "Lefties are more crafty, they don't throw as hard as right-handers."

Stafford seemed duly impressed.

She suggested the group go over their lines again. As they volleyed dialogue back and forth, the makeup artists worked their magic and a hairstylist curled Stafford's red locks.

"I have to memorize that jargon," Stafford said. "Pinch-hit, go-ahead single."

Suppan's wife, Dana, along for the trip to CBS Television City, plopped herself into the stylist's chair at Stafford's invitation.

"I have extensions," she confided to the stylist.

"So does everyone else," he said, laughing.

From the other end of the room, a surprised Suppan noticed his wife getting a blowout. "How'd you finagle that one?" he said.

Before Suppan had joined the group, Capuano cracked, "Sup is actually in his own room. He needs so much makeup, he has eight guys working on him."

Bergman, an Emmy-winning 18-year veteran of the show, settled into another chair and announced to the makeup man, "I got a lot of young, studly guys in the room, so make me look good."

Waiting around downstairs for taping to begin, Suppan pulled out the 2006 World Series ring he earned pitching for the St. Louis Cardinals.

"It fits well," actor Joshua Morrow said, slipping it on his left ring finger.

"That's very impressive," Bergman said.

Actress Sharon Case chatted up the players. "Break a leg," she told them before realizing who she was talking to. "Or don't," she hastily added.

After nailing their scene in two takes, the players admitted they liked trading their smelly clubhouse for a trip to soap-opera land, where the women are gorgeous and the men are hunky.

"It was really cool to see behind the scenes how everything works," Hardy said.

Hall added, "It's a great life. Everybody wants to be on TV some time or another. I wouldn't mind doing it again."

Bergman singled out Hall, who has done commercials, as the biggest surprise.

"He was just comfortable in his skin," he said. "The other guys were a little hyped up."

The millionaire ballplayers earned Screen Actors Guild scale of $375 each for about 15 minutes worth of work on a soap that none of them said they watch.

"I might just save that check from CBS," Capuano said. "That's pretty cool."

Calling it a wrap, the group ventured across the hall to check out the empty set of The Price is Right.

On the darkened stage, Suppan begged his wife to take a picture of him pretending to spin the Showcase Showdown wheel. She suggested he fall down as he spun it, like some contestants do.

Suppan kept his feet on the ground, just as he had throughout his visit to the world of make believe.