Spring training is winding down, with just five games left. Thursday pits the Oakland A’s against the Seattle Mariners, in quite a rare phenomenon — the rubber match of a two-game series.
That’s because the clubs tied in their first meeting, back in Game #6, a forgettable 1-1 stalemate. Now the spring series will bounce in the direction of whoever takes the second game, instead of the usual situation where teams split the first two and play a tiebreaker in the third.
The A’s start off with Frankie Montas, making his third appearance of the Cactus League.