Well there’s something you don’t see every day in baseball — a tie game.
Such is life in the Cactus League, where the exhibition wins and losses don’t matter. The goal is stretching out for the regular season, and success is measured in the changeups we learned along the way.
And so when the Oakland A’s and Arizona Diamondbacks found themselves knotted up 4-4 after nine innings on Monday, they just called it a day, having gotten in the work they came to do.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t takeaways. The score never mattered anyway, but there were some A’s players in the game whose performances were worth keeping track of.