It’s the eighth intrasquad game, and we’re workin’ on our night cheese for the first time this camp! For reference:
Logan Gilbert, making the start for the Pilots, begins his day by fooling Dylan Moore on this slider:
Dee Gordon, who will have the most success against Gilbert, starts out by bunting himself aboard and promptly swiping second. The threat is quelled, however, when Nola pops out and J.P. Crawford flashes some leather:
In a mirror image of the top of the first, the bottom of the first begins with Mallex Smith air-bunting a ball that Rick Rizzs calls “a butterfly with sore ankles” into right field.