Some days the runs in the Cactus League flow like the water that is nowhere to be found elsewhere in the Cactus League. Other times it’s a total drought. Goose eggs all around. Less scoring than a game of pick-up basketball played by beat writers. Today was the rare Cactus League pitcher’s duel. Neither team walked a batter until the eighth inning. The two teams combined for nineteen strikeouts, and stranded a combined 27 runners on base. In a regular season game, I’d find this exciting. In a radio-only spring training game, less so.
George Kirby started for the Mariners and looked (sounded) sharp.