SCOTTSDALE — Robbie Ray faced just three batters in his first inning of 2026, walking two and allowing a bloop single. He somehow walked off the field with three outs, and that wasn’t even the weirdest part of his spring debut. 

In what had to be the wildest start to a game in the long history of Scottsdale Stadium, Ray pitched through a loud fire alarm that had some in attendance heading for the exits and then got out of a jam with a triple play on a base hit. He laughed as he walked back to the dugout, where equally stunned teammates jokingly congratulated him on working his way out of trouble. 

“You’ll see a lot of stuff in spring training that you don’t see during the season,” Ray said later, smiling. 

The chaos started just about right away in the first game of the year in Scottsdale. As Ray was facing Alex Bregman, lights started flashing at the ballpark and a recorded message began playing over and over again. It encouraged fans to leave the building right away, but most stayed, in large part because Ray kept pitching through it. 

Ray said he wanted to take a break, but the first base umpire urged him to pitch through the noise. He walked Matt Shaw and Bregman to start his day, and then gave up a flare to right from Seiya Suzuki. 

Everyone on the field assumed Shaw would score, and Rafael Devers cut off the throw to get Suzuki at second. From there, things got weird. 

“When he made that cut I didn’t see the guy not go home,” Ray said. “I was yelling at him ‘two! two! two!’ to go to second base and then I realized there was a guy stuck between second and third, and I looked at third and the guy was just standing there. I was like, I’m going to get two outs and then it ended up being three.”

Ray, 34 and entering his 13th MLB season, said he vaguely remembers having a triple play behind him in the minors at some point. The Giants have not turned one in a regular-season game since 2008. 

The left-hander said he got enough work in before the strange end to the inning, and he felt really good physically. He’s looking forward to working out some mechanical issues in his next bullpen session, and after that it’ll be another start that will be more normal. There’s no way to top this one.

“That’s enough chaos for spring training in one game,” he said.

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