Second straight year, Scoopa will be the Tigers' opening
day starter as the 2-2 basketball waved through a 98
M. Westberg was late on that heater. We
will not wasting any time. Third base side,
he delivers on 12 and it's off speed. It's
cut through by Mountcastle, knocked down on the dirt
by Rodgers and he's throw to first against Mounty.
Scole from the windup. He comes home, and
Ramon takes a strike 3. He punches out the
5th Kubel, one away. Outfield tilted well to
the opposite field against Matteo, 22 swing and a
miss strike 3 off speed down and in back to
back strikeouts for Skuble. As Chris Sales prepared to
face the Rays in his final start before the regular
season, there's a cold 3 strike, paint on
the inside corner. 12 swung on missed. He
was a pass ball there to strike out Lou and
2 down. There's the 12 to Josh Lowe and
a 3 quarter swing and a miss by Lowe.
Sails 32, strike 3 painted the inside corner with
a change. 2-2 from sail, swung on missed
, struck him out with a slider as it sent
Warbet down to a knee flailing after it. And
that's the bit strikeout by Chris Sale. Here is
your starter today, Zach Wheeler. No surprise since
his last outing. He was named the opening day
starter. That Mr. Wheeler's got some thunder with
that fastball. 32 stays with his fastball, a
little bit extra on that offering. You got that
one up to 9612 again. Well this is an
absolutely filthy split. Got it. And another strikeout
for winter, good clean fifth inning for the right-hander
. And on the mound of the Red Sox,
Garrett Crochet in the opening day starter 0-2 pitch swing
and a miss. There's the strikeout. Strike 3
calls for back to back strikeouts to get Gonzalez to
end the first swing and a miss strike 3.
So a 123 inning Crochet, the 4th strikeout of
the day for Crouch, swing and a miss strike
3. So that's the 5th strikeout. Gets the
strikeout of Gonzalez. 2nd time he struck out Gonzalez
tonight, 7 strikeouts for Garrett Crosshay. Swing and
a miss, 1-2 pitch, swing and miss,
strike 39 strikeouts for the righty. He's tuned up
and ready for opening day. That's some big boppers
in this lineup. This one hit high and deep
to left. Bowers is running out of room and
Lourdes Gurriel hits a two-run homer. 18 a season
to go and he hits his first of the spring
. Fly ball right center. Mitchell, tracking and
this one's gonna fly too. Another 2 run homer
hit by the D-backs as Gaby Moreno goes out on
the berm. Marte into the gap in right center
field. He's got his 3rd hit. This one's
gonna go all the way to the wall. Everybody's
gonna try and score. Here comes Pordoma. The
throw is gonna go to 3rd, a bases clearing
triple for Marte. He went down and uh he
got one, picked it off the ground and hit
the triple into the gap with the bases loaded.
So 2 on, 2 out, and George Springer
up for the 2nd time today. High in the
air to left center, he's tagged it well.
And it's gone. George Springer hits one out to
left center. It's a 3 run homer. Leo
Jimenez is still with the team as well. As
Kyle Schwarber sends one high in the air to right
center field. Schwarber goes after the first pitch that
he sees and he hits it out to put the
Phillies on the board. Andres Jimenez, the batters
. To right field and hit well. has His
2nd home run of the spring. Blue Jays have
blow it open here with 3 in the 5th to
lead 8 to 1. Clay Holmes, 32 years
old, on opening day when he's going to make
the start, just his 5th start in the big
leagues. Swinging a miss and down goes Michael Ciati
, swinging a miss. Couple of strikeouts here in
the first inning for Clay Holmes, 2-2 pitch,
swung on and missed. That went in there for
a call 3rd strike. Swinging a miss. Impressive
, Clay Holmes. Oh, strikeout#6 on the
day for Clay Holmes. 02 pitch on the way
. Swaga and missed. Swaga and missed. 8
strikeouts for Clay Holmes and his day is going to
come to an end. Brett Beatty in the air
to right field, well hit. Walker goes back
up and it is. a 21. For Brett
Beatty, his 3rd home run of the spring and
his hot offensive spring, it does continue. Maybe
to throw, but not really to get a glove
on. Wy Langford swings at the first pitch,
a liner in right field. Trout comes up throwing
. Seger's trying to score from second. The throw
is cut off and it's thrown back to first.
Is Langford just able to get back in time.
It's an RBI single for Wyatt Langford. The Rangers
have a 1-0 lead. In the clubhouse it's all
about we got a job to do. Toota Trout
is going to be driven down the left field line
. That one's going to get into the corner.
Nicholson will be. 3rd and Mike Trout ends his
Cactus lead with a double and a good finish to
the Cactus League slate for Mike Trout as we say
goodbye to 27. Now today is bouncing into a
double play and has popped out to 3rd swing.
There's a liner out to deep left center. Brennan
going back. He's at the wall. It is
gone. A line drive home run from Matt Chapman
. And Castro is toward the middle at 2nd,
and it's a fly ball to right and back goes
Melendez at the track, turning, he's at the
wall and it's gone. field, he has a
double to left, a single to center, and
now a home run to right. And Seattle leads
32 with the Rosarena driving in two of the three
runs and a breaking ball hit. the. In
his first Here in the final week of great training
. A 3 run homer and the Royals lead at
73. Just under way here's a 3-2 to Wells
. Pitt swung on a high fly ball, right
field to right fielder. Joe's just looking at it
. Byebye home run for Austin Wells and the Yankees
have a 1-0 lead. He hit that a country
mile and that's what Austin. can do. He
was pitching them outside, outside, outside. He
tried to get it in, but he didn't get
it all the way in, and he turned on
it. Austin Wells drawn in infield, first pitch
, swung on line drive deep to left. It's
got some carry on. Austin Wells with a 3-run
homer and the Yankees have built this lead to 4-0
. What a night. That's the pitch that swung
on drive to left field it well just looking up
his Blanco and it is gone out of the berm
, a two run homer for Rooker, it's 50
athletics. The Rooker is second home run of the
spring and RBIs 9 and 10. high in the
air to deep left center field. Blanco going back
, he will look up and watch it fly out
of the ballpark. So Langle gets all over Cole
Ragans and picks up his second homer of the spring
and back to a 5-run advantage go the A's.
3 and 2 swing and a man blew a fastball
past him and Al Contra strikes out. Dan the
inning, 1 and 2 pitch on the way.
Al Contra swings and misses strike 3. Another 123
inning. The 0-2 pitch swung on and missed strike
31 of the heater. Wade swings, sends into
the air, high and deep to right field.
Allen going back towards the corner, looking up,
it's gonna go. 2 run homer into the bullpen
for Tyler Wade. D Wade putting his big boy
pants on, he goes right field. He leaned
on this baseball. Yu Darvish, um, he's
in a rest phase, um, did not play
catch yesterday. He's gonna go a couple of days
, just, um, give it a little bit
of a rest, work on some, uh,
other things physically, and then reboot, you know
, we'll determine that as it goes, but,
um, they don't always go, you know,
perfectly straight line, so you know you just had
a little bit of a setback and, you know
, we'll evaluate as it goes. The 12 breaking
ball and that's it out in the left center and
hit well, racing back Scott onto the warning track
, leaves at the wall and that ball is gone
. Jeremy Penya 3 for 3, adds a homer
and it is 5 to 1 Astros. For more
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