The first tag came on the foot.
It was Mitch Garver’s foot, as well as 394 more that Brent Rooker clubbed his two-run shot to knock a wobbly Luis Castillo off his feet at last. Though The Rock’s inertia carried him through five rounds of Friday Night Fights, he tapped out with a 2-0 deficit that could’ve easily been worse.
On another night it might’ve been enough, but the Mariners had minimal reinforcements for their starter on either side of the ball. 13 strikeouts against an A’s pitching staff that projects as one of the league's worst, on a night Sacramento didn’t even need to break out their fireballing bullpen oni Mason Miller.