Cactus League Game 27 – Mariners at Rockies (again)
We’ve finally made it to the end of spring training. It’s minor league opening day eve, and there’s another oddball “real” MLB game tonight, ahead of tomorrow’s opening day for most and Friday’s “did we forget anyone?” opening day redux.
The M’s will send Hector Noesi to the hill in what’s actually a fairly interesting game for the presumptive #3 starter. With Charlie Furbush and Erasmo Ramirez in the bullpen (one in Tacoma and one in Seattle). If they lose a starter, it won’t take long for one of them to get stretched out, but you’d think one of the 6th or 7th starters would be…starting somewhere.
The Rainiers roster is finally set after this morning’s moves, and Mike Curto’s got a list of what to watch for here, ahead of tomorrow evening’s opener against Salt Lake.
High Desert kicks off tomorrow as well, and the High Desert Daily Press has a great interview with new manager (and last year’s Minor League Coordinator) Pedro Grifol.
Jackson’s roster’s the one everyone will focus on thanks to the presence of Paxton, Walker, Hultzen and Franklin – but it’s under-the-radar command pitcher Andrew Carraway who’ll get the ball on opening day. According to Chris Harris, it’l be Carraway, then Paxton, then Brandon Maurer, then Hultzen and then Taijuan Walker. That means high-ceiling prospect Carter Capps will start in the pen for Jackson, fresh off his eye-opening inning in a big league game last week. I know a lot of us were eager to see what he could do as a starter, but he could move very quickly as a late-game reliever.
Here’s the line-up for the final game of the second phase of spring training. Yes, yes, it started a while ago. Oops.
1: Figgins (LF)
2: Ackley (2B)
3: Suzuki (RF)
4: Smoak (1B)
5: Seager (3B)
6: Ryan (SS)
7: Saunders (CF)
8: Wells (DH)
9: Jaso (C)
Sp: Noesi
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Jhoulys Chacin plunks Brendan Ryan. I don’t know about the Rockies, you guys.
Chacin was the opening day starter for Colorado Springs against Tacoma in 2010. Just re-read the post from that game, and looked through the pictures which meant seeing Greg Halman pictures again. And now I’m sad.
No TV, just radio, I think, which is probably why there is minimal interest in this game.
Well, that and it is the last spring training game.
I don’t even see this game on MLB.com.
Good to see Seager and Saunders continuing to show they’ve earned their places on the team.
Right on Wells!
Wow, Jaso really needed that!
It’s amazing, this thing called “stringing hits together.” Are teams normally supposed to do that? It’s just so foreign to me.
Quiz time kids: Who has hit two triples today? Can’t believe it.
Did I read that right? Figgins is 2-4 with 2 TRIPLES? (1 Run, 3 RBI’s).
I could stand to see that a couple of times a week.
He better do it every day if he wants to make up for the last couple years.
Is this game on mlb.com? I can’t find it for some reason…
You have to go to the scoreboard page. Now that the season is starting “for real” tonight, MLB.com has removed the remaining spring training games from the front page.
Great – thanks!
Ugh. Figgins hits two triples. How much you bet we hear all about how he’s “turned it all around” and is “finally getting comfortable in his old leadoff role”, with people pulling the old stunt of looking at one game’s performance and ignoring all the others?
This can’t be right, on the Gameday boxscore it shows Noesi only throwing 34 pitches in 7 innings?? What, did he have like 3 or 4 three pitch innings?
Yesterday, was piddle on Peguero day and he went 4 for 5; today we mocked the final hours of Figgins as an M and he hits 2 triples. It may be small sample size for those guys but USS Mariner’s starting to develop a real track record here — taunt them and they will hit!