The Mariners lost another spring training game today, again allowing the other team to hang a football score’s worth of runs off them while scoring only a few runs themselves (minus those scored by the Kids in garbage time). However, this game was still more watchable than yesterday’s game because...more things happened. Some of it was good and a lot more of it was bad, but things happened, at least, because no game that bats Julio Rodríguez leadoff and stations him in center field can ever be boring.
Julio’s performance is a microcosm of the highs-and-lows of today’s game.