\n D\u2019Backs 3, Mariners 1 at the Peoria Sports Complex<\/p>\n
Notable<\/p>\n
Luis Castillo made his first start of the spring, pitching 1 1\/3 innings, allowing three runs on four hits with two strikeouts. He worked an easy 1-2-3 first inning. He opened the game with a swinging strikeout of Jordan Lawlar on a 96-mph fastball. He got a little help from left fielder Rhylan Thomas, who made a ridiculous diving catch on a pop-up near the warning track in foul territory for the final out of the inning.<\/p>\n
\u201cPretty phenomenal play,\u201d manager Dan Wilson said of the catch. \u201cI wasn\u2019t sure if he was going to get to it. We saw him make a big catch out in center field yesterday after a long run. When he came up briefly last year for us, he made a nice play in Texas down the line. Defensively, he\u2019s able to run the ball down.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the second inning, Castillo allowed back-to-back singles and then left a 3-2 fastball up in the zone that A.J. Vukovich sent over the wall in right-center.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe important thing was going out there and feeling healthy,\u201d Castillo said through interpreter Freddy Llanos. \u201cI was pounding the strike zone.\u201d<\/p>\n
The seven relievers that followed Castillo combined to work the rest of the game scoreless, allowing five hits with two walks and seven strikeouts.<\/p>\n
The Mariners lone run came in the seventh inning when Cole Young hit a ground ball to second base, scoring Brennen Davis on the fielder\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n
Player of the game<\/p>\n
Jose A. Ferrer made his third appearance of the spring and looked dominant, working a 1-2-3 fifth inning with a strikeout. Ferrer threw 14 pitches with 10 strikes.<\/p>\n
Quotable<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s got two pretty good off-speed weapons \u2014 the slider, and then that changeup too. We wanted to get some confidence in both of those and he threw a lot of them tonight. I thought they looked really good. When you can throw 98 mph with some sink and then counteract that with a couple of good off-speed pitches you are going to get a lot of people out.\u201d \u2014 Wilson on Ferrer<\/p>\n
On Tap<\/p>\n
The Mariners will be back at the Peoria Sports Complex on Saturday afternoon but as the visiting team when they face the San Diego Padres. Kade Anderson, Seattle\u2019s first-round pick in 2025 (No. 3 overall) will make his first start of any sort in a Mariners\u2019 uniform. Also scheduled to pitch for Seattle are right-handers Emerson Hancock, Randy Dobnak, Blas Casta\u00f1o and lefty Jhonathan D\u00edaz. The Padres will start lefty JP Sears. First pitch is set for 12:10 p.m. PT. The game will be live streamed on Mariners.com and MLB.TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"D\u2019Backs 3, Mariners 1 at the Peoria Sports Complex Notable Luis Castillo made his first start of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-509164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}