Spring Game Thread #12: A's vs. Mariners

We've got a night game! Get hype y'all. Feels more like real baseball season when it's played under the lights on a weeknight. Unfortunately, the baseball is still very meaningless. But we'll have some fun with it.

Tonight's Lineup:

Smolinski LF

Barreto SS

Piscotty RF

Chapman 3B

Pinder 2B

Canha 1B

Maxwell C

Neuse DH

Fowler CF

Jharel Cotton on the bump. It'd be cool if he started doing the good pitching thing again. I miss that.

Gotta get those right-handed homies in there. Cause it's really hard for lefties to hit Marco Gonzales I guess? Whatever, it's spring training. Go nuts, BoMel.

For the Mariners:

Dee Gordon CF (That's right this is a thing now lol)

Jean Segura SS

Robinson Cano 2B

Nelson Cruz DH

Dan Vogelbach 1B (cause you can't have 2 DH's)

David Freitas C (A'S LEGEND ALERT!!!)

Junior Lake RF (yooo he's still playing that's wild)

Gordon Beckham 3B

Ian Miller LF (when you google his name, the wikipedia page for the illustrator comes up before his b-ref page, so this man has some work to do)

Lefty Marco Gonzales gets the start. He started 7 games for the Mariners last year, which is pretty rough for the Mariners. But he was supposed to be good at one point.

Sidenote: I just remembered David Freitas was the return for Kurt Suzuki from the Nats and I got hit right in the feels.

Game starts at 5:40. Game Thread boutta be lit.