Sloppy game (3 errors each!) but the ending was certainly exciting and despite the Dodgers 4 stolen bases and two DP's there was some good stuff in the beginning and middle as well...
- Gaby started lights out - retiring the first six batters he faced, but then it got a bit rough
- Other good mound performances today: Batista, Corcoran, Messenger (closer battle still wages)
- 12 hits spread up and down the line-up, Morse and Wlad each w/two (Wlad had his 1st ST home run)
- Mike Sweeney made his M's ST debut...
"Overall, I felt great. I saw the ball well. I played as hard as I could. I was mentally and physically ready to go."The legs held up fine, although he didn't have to test them with a sprint around the bases. Even so, he went a few extra steps around first base on his fly ball to center field.
"Traditionally, I would have ran and veered off [to the right], but I did like a Forrest Gump-type thing," Sweeney said. "I just kept running and wanted to see how it felt rounding the base and jogging halfway to second base. It was fine. It felt good."
- Then there was LaHair's home run his first of the spring and the game winner
The big blow, though, was LaHair's first home run of the spring.
"To hit a ball like that and put us ahead is a good confidence-builder for him," Wakamatsu said. "That's true power going that way. I think young kids like that get it into their heads that they have to pull the ball.
"But when he can do something like that ..."
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