It was an early lead, and then a late deficit, and then a dramatic comeback, and then a blown save, and by the end they just called it a tie.
Such is life in the Cactus League, where the Oakland A’s and Cleveland Guardians played to a 9-9 stalemate on Sunday. Both teams had gotten their scheduled work in, and the standings don’t matter in spring training, so there was no need for extra innings to determine a winner.
The A’s used a starting lineup of mostly their familiar veterans for the first half of the afternoon, and it went pretty well.