Robinson Chirinos opened the bottom of the second inning with a no-doubt home run to left field off Mariners starter James Paxton. He later scored the first run of the game when Nomar Mazara fouled off a handful of pitches before grounding a ball to deep enough shortstop to score DeShields.ģ. With third baseman Gordon Beckham in left field tracking down the errant heave, DeShields went ahead and took third base after all. Delino DeShields hit a double to lead off the bottom of the first, then tagged up and deked Junior Lake into making a wild throw that sailed into left field. Knocking some rust off, kinda getting into some deep counts, but really it came down to pounding the zone and letting our defense work.”Ģ. “But getting into a game feels good again. “Yeah, we’ve been on a back field a couple of times here now with live hitters,” Fister said after his outing. That’s a pretty good outing for this time of year, and Fister, in his usual no-big-deal tone agreed that it was yeah pretty good, sure. Doug Fister made his Cactus League debut and worked three clean innings, facing just eleven hitters, striking out one, walking one, and allowing no runs on two hits. Welcome to the March 4th Texas Ten-Step!ġ.
But they’re not likely to influence any final outcomes in Arlington, and so the score is generally an afterthought.īut once in awhile, if you squint and tilt your head just right, you can watch a Spring Training game that overlays pretty cleanly over that mid-July Arlington blueprint. It’s not that those names aren’t interesting for one reason or another quite the opposite, in fact: it’s sometimes the only chance beat writers get to see the up-and-comers in person. The last pitch usually comes with names like Ljay Newsome, Zach Shank, Adrian Sampson, or Yanio Perez having crawled from the JIC page onto the scorecard. The score doesn’t matter in Spring Training games, especially not on March 4th.
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