Game two of the first road trip of 2023 pitted the two-win A’s against the 7-0 Rays at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Today’s starting matchup was righty Shintaro Fujinami going for the A’s against lefty Jeffrey Springs for the Rays. It’s the second start of the season for both, but their opening games could not have been much more different. Springs threw six innings of no-hit, one-walk baseball in a wining effort against the Detroit Tigers, while Fujinami gave up eight earned runs in three plus innings of work against the Angels.
Fuji got off to a great start, mowing down the high-scoring Rays for the first three innings, not giving up his first hit until one out in the fourth.