Robinson Cano wore in a red first-base glove while wearing a Tacoma Rainiers baseball cap with Seattle Mariners warm up shirt. He and Daniel Vogelbach rotated taking ground balls behind a first-base bag Cano has never before played in his professional career.
But this was Cano’s first game of really the next stage in his 14-year career. He had never before been suspended 80 games for violating major league baseball’s joint drug agreement, he never before had to put on a jersey for Triple-A Tacoma and never before had to try to return to playing professional baseball games under a dark cloud of performance-enhancing drugs.