The scream came from somewhere beyond the backstop. It was loud and, in some ways, deja vu. The man had seen enough.
“Get him out of there,” he hollered.
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A few batters later, manager Bob Melvin obliged. And just like that, Sean Manaea’s first outing of 2020 ended much like his final one of 2019 — with an early exit.
Manaea’s first Cactus League start was supposed to signal a new beginning for the 24-year old southpaw after he gave up three home runs and four total earned runs, wearing the loss in the A’s wild-card defeat against the Tampa Bay Rays.