Curtis Granderson stepped into the batter’s box and battled through a seven-pitch at-bat with Michael Wacha before ultimately grounding out to first baseman Paul Goldschmidt to open the Miami Marlins’ game against the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday.
One batter later, Martin Prado waited two pitches before hitting a 77 mph change-up to the shortstop for the second out of the inning.
Even with 28 combined seasons of MLB experience among them, Saturday was the first public step this spring in both of their continued baseball journeys.
The former is new to the team, but not to baseball.