Split squad games are tricky enough to cover without team-centric broadcasts of either game, but today offered a double-barreled challenge. Fortunately, between the Chicago White Sox feed and Seattle’s radio broadcast online, we got a decent bead on the two one-run losses.
This game began with Logan Gilbert on the hill, moving efficiently through the top of the Giants order, which features the 4-5 low-end starting or reasonable MLB bench caliber players in San Francisco’s lineup today. Gilbert reportedly sat 92-95 with ease in two scoreless innings as well as 81-82 on the slider and 73 on the curveball, yielding only one hit on a well-placed chopper on a single and just a mild scare on a fly ball to the gap that Jarred Kelenic raced down.