{"id":585969,"date":"2026-02-22T04:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T04:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/585969\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T04:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T04:30:14","slug":"mariners-bit-by-couple-of-sun-balls-in-spring-training-loss-to-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/585969\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners bit by \u2018couple of sun balls\u2019 in spring-training loss to Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                Giants 10, Mariners 5 at the Peoria Sports Complex<\/p>\n<p>Notable<\/p>\n<p>The Mariners jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the first inning, but wouldn\u2019t score again as the Giants\u2019 rally was aided by the cloudless day.<\/p>\n<p>The Mariners lost a pair of pop flies in the sun that allowed San Francisco to break open a pair of innings. With two outs and the bases loaded in the second inning, Cole Young couldn\u2019t catch a two-out pop up in shallow right field. That led to a pair of runs scoring and allowed Harrison Bader to slash a double to right field to drive in two more runs.<\/p>\n<p>In the eighth inning with the Mariners trailing 6-5, Rhylan Thomas tried to fight off the sun on a pop fly to shallow center off the bat of Buddy Kennedy. But he couldn\u2019t make the catch as the ball bounced past him. It went for a leadoff triple and ignited a four-run inning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were able to take advantage of a couple of big innings on a couple of sun balls, and that\u2019s part of spring training,\u201d manager Dan Wilson said.<\/p>\n<p>Emerson Hancock was charged with three runs for the lost ball in the sun in the second inning. But he did strike out four in 1 2\/3 innings of worked.<\/p>\n<p>The Mariners\u2019 relief trio of Andres Mu\u00f1oz, Gabe Speier and Eduard Bazardo also made their first appearance of the spring with mixed results.<\/p>\n<p>Player of the game<\/p>\n<p>Miles Mastrobuoni\u2019s start to Cactus League play couldn\u2019t have been much better. On Friday, he had a double while making two outstanding defensive plays at second base. In his first at-bat of Saturday\u2019s game, Mastrobuoni stepped to the plate and ambushed the first pitch he saw from starter Hayden Birdsong, smoking the 97-mph fastball over the fence in right field for a grand slam. Mastrobuoni doubled to left in his second at-bat.<\/p>\n<p>Quotable<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the most part, I thought our pitchers filled up the zone again today. We threw a lot of strikes and we didn\u2019t beat ourselves on the mound.\u201d \u2014 Wilson<\/p>\n<p>On tap<\/p>\n<p>The Mariners travel to Goodyear Ballpark on Sunday to face the Cincinnati Reds in their first road Cactus League game. Right-hander Randy Dobnak will get the start for Seattle. Also scheduled to pitch are lefties Jhonathan Diaz and Robinson Ortiz along with right-handers Casey Legumina, Ryan Loutos, Cole Wilcox and Domingo Gonzalez. The Reds will start right-hander Jose Franco. First pitch is scheduled for 12:05 p.m. PT. The game will not be televised or streamed. Fans can listen to the radio broadcast on 700-AM, or on mariners.com and the MLB app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giants 10, Mariners 5 at the Peoria Sports Complex Notable The Mariners jumped out to a 5-0 lead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[5,620,4,619,65,3235],"class_list":{"0":"post-585969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-mariners","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mariners","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-mariners","13":"tag-seattlemariners"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116112406823309806","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}