#scrimmage

goar warning

It was a good scrimmage.

Both teams wore the same jersey

The jersey in question was a terrible combo of the white script home jersey and the gray away pants

If you’re gonna wear the same jersey as the other “team” that’s fine but why...that one

On multiple occasions, coaches played in the outfield

At one point one of the coaches in the outfield failed to catch a fly ball, but it was declared an out anyway

During one game an inning just...ended. There were not three outs, but evidently the pitcher had passed a certain threshold of pitches so they just “called it a completed inning”

In the third game the third base coach Chip Hale wore a jersey that said “Hale Soto” on the back of it, evidently because he loves Soto so much and this is some kind of inside joke with the team

Raudy Read started a game playing first for one team, came out for a few innings, and then went back in the game playing catcher for the other team

Suzuki at one point took consecutive at bats; he was out, and then just stayed at the plate and took another at bat

I’m pretty sure at one point there were only like 7 people in the lineup

During one of the games the graphic was wrong, it said the incorrect inning the entire time

In one game Howie batted third and Soto batted second (for different teams) every single inning

Batting order be damned. There was no batting order, almost ever. People just batted in whatever order they wanted

Guys just went in and out of the game with reckless abandon

All of the starters who weren’t in the game sat behind the plate and jeered at everyone on the field. Over the three days, I saw Max Scherzer, Anibal Sanchez, and Stephen Strasburg

In the first game, the broadcast audio was suddenly interrupted; it was Wilmer Difo singing the national anthem. Evidently he had waltzed up to one of the field mics, not realizing they were hot, and belted out “OH SAY CAN YOU SEEEE” which delighted play-by-play guy Charlie Slowes immensely, especially when someone later told Wilmer the mic had been broadcasting live

They simulated the new extra innings scenario, starting an inning with a runner on second. This was only funny because they did this with anibal on the mound, who would never be in that scenario in a real game

Speaking of anibal, I swear to god during the last game they played three tops of innings in a row? and anibal and his fielding team just?? stayed out for three innings?? I don’t know I started to lose track and also lose my mind