Duel Split-squad-TV action for your Saturday
We’re getting down to the wire with Opening Day less than a week away. Excitement! Today, the Mariners double up with a split team game, and better yet, both are televised and available for your double-tube viewing pleasure, provided you have MLB TV.
Here are the lineups for both games; the road game starts at 1:05 in Scottsdale against the Giants and the home game at 1:10 in Peoria against the Diamondbacks. If you have ROOT you will be able to watch the home game, but if you have MLB TV you can watch either (or both!).
You’ll notice that JP Crawford is missing from either lineup, after being a late scratch yesterday. The Mariners are hoping he just had a bone bruise after covering a pitch off his foot during batting practice yesterday; he has x-rays today.
Bryce Miller will start on the road against the Giants. He is slated to be followed by Peyton Alford, Sam Carlson, Troy Taylor, Ty Adcock and Dayeison Arias. This is a game to watch if you care about casting prospects; Adcock is particularly interesting, a fiery player who is finally healthy after missing a lot of time after being drafted in 2019 out of Elon (same school as George Kirby). Up against the Mariners will be Logan Webb and Sean Hjelle, the same duo that combined to shut out the Mariners in that 0-0 draw a few weeks ago, so this is definitely for our players.
If you’re more interested in seeing the guys likely to suit up for Seattle during the home opener’s Week 1, Robbie Ray will start the game at home, followed by Paul Sewald, Gabe Speier and Chris Clarke. Speier appears to have the inside track at the spot recently vacated by Erik Swanson as he had a solid spring and also has the advantage of throwing the baseball left-handed.
As a reminder, MLB has added tomorrow’s game against the Padres on MLB Network. Logan Gilbert is slated to start that game, followed by Matt Brash and Andrés Muñoz, so if you didn’t get to see the Seattle players this spring, this is your chance.
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