Praise be, the A’s won! Even in spring training, it’s just flat out better than losing. Same as sun is more enjoyable than rain, so Sunday was a good day. For future notice, today I had a chance to interview Stephen Piscotty and pitching coach Scott Emerson, the latter being a long and thorough enough interview that I will break it into multiple parts (we talked about several of the A’s young starting pitchers one by one). Look for those to “air” between now and the end of spring training...As for the game:
- Sean Manaea’s stuff looked good to me, though the results were mixed given that he allowed HRs on back-to-back pitches and only escaped further disaster thanks to a line drive DP.