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Mariners drop pair of split-squad games, baseball is hard

Today the Mariners played two games at the same time, with roughly the same caliber of lineup for each squad; the main difference was between pitchers. On ROOT Sports, facing the Diamondbacks, the seasoned former Cy Young winner, Robbie Ray; on a shaky MLB TV stream from the Giants which eventually just gave up and became an audio stream, the young prospect Bryce Miller. Miller is very good, and very close to making the big leagues, but today’s games illustrated how large that gap can be between being close to the bigs and being there.

Miller came out strong in the first inning; LaMonte Wade Jr.