Today’s game was essentially two games: a major-league game and a minor-league one. The bad news is, the Mariners lost both. The good news is, neither count for anything.
It was a battle of the exes today as Eugenio Suárez and Jesse Winker faced their old team for the first time as part of a lineup that certainly looked what the Mariners will be rolling out on Opening Day. They were facing top Reds prospect Hunter Greene, he of the 80-grade fastball, which would have been fun to see, eh? Not so fast.
Okay, this part would have been fun to see: after making quick work of the Mariners in the first, with the only damage a walk to Jesse Winker, the Mariners got it going in the second with a leadoff homerun from Suárez (we as a site refuse to call him Geno, that is some midwestern nonsense that needs to be stopped) followed by Kelenic turning around a Greene fastball for a homer of his own.