I promised myself I wasn’t going to get mad about Spring Training games. This is a time of practice, experimentation, and teachable moments. There is not too much to glean from these skirmishes about the upcoming season, so I should save myself the agony and woe of any and all losses until after March 28th. I swore I wouldn’t get mad.
But the stars had perfectly aligned.
It was a déjà vu moment. The score was dangerously close to 4-2 with the Angels in the lead. The significance of this score can not be understated, but the Angels had to win at the very least.