Felix Hernandez threw to hitters in his first live BP session of the spring and all went well. He threw around 40 pitches, mixing them all in and feeling particularly good about the changeup.
"It felt good," he said with a smile. "Ask the hitters. They weren't happy."
One hitter, Tyler O'Neill, was happy about a fastball he saw however as he took one over the fence of the lower field.
"Got him!" yelled O'Neill, perhaps unwisely.
Felix is used to over-exuberant young hitters who get to face him in the spring and knows they are not going for base hits.