The Mariners scored five runs and Marco Gonzales to pitch one inning, but the game ended after the top of the second because of rain.
MESA, Ariz. — The stats won’t count since the game was unofficial and probably shouldn’t have been started in the first place, but the Mariners will always have the memories of an impressive offensive outburst their first 1 1/2 innings of Cactus League baseball.
Rain was predicted in the Phoenix valley for all of Thursday, but the Oakland A’s, who were hosting Seattle in the lid lifter game of the spring training season, wanted to try and get in some baseball.