It’s a weird spring training with limited rosters and few fans and innings being able to be rolled over, so games ending in ties feels appropriately chaos-Muppetish for ST ‘21. The Mariners obliged today by ending the game in a tie for the second day in a row, ending today with the Rockies 9-9.
Justus Sheffield’s start went about as well as an early spring outing could. He threw about 30 pitches over his two innings, allowing two hits but no runs. The first hit was a Greg Bird groundball single that snuck past J.P. Crawford; the second, off the bat of Rockies prospect Colton Welker, was legitimately well-struck to the gap for a standing double.