Pitcher

score here in the second.

Pitcher's best friend, the double play ball, bailing Osteen out momentarily anyway.

He jams a breaking ball in on the fifth, but Mike Jorgensen didn't bite for it, and it's ball two.

Two and nothing.

Bob Bailey struck out in the first, rounded out third and first in the

fourth.

Pitchers very much in command early in the season.

And especially tonight.

Oh, yes.

On to Pitcher.

Swung on and missed.

Strike three.

Mantle takes high, and the count now is two balls and strike one.

When you deal with that one-two punch of Mantle and Barron's catches, Pitcher really has his work cut out for him.

A wind sweeps across the mound, raising up a bit of a dust storm there.

Time is called.

Changes up in the curve.

Big control, Pitcher.

He now sets again.

Altman at second base.

I got the chance to get up there and had a couple interviews with a couple former Rays players.

If you guys remember the trade, rather seismic trade in the offseason that sent second baseman Brandon Lau, outfielder Jake Mangum, and left-handed relief pitcher Mason Montgomery to the Pittsburgh Pirates in a three-team deal that also saw the Rays acquire outfield prospect Jacob Melton and right-handed receiver Pitching prospect Anderson Brito from the Houston Astros.

It was...

I mean, at the time, it was a massive trade.

It's a pitcher's game.

for sure.

Pitcher's game for sure.

Gosh, you barrel a wiffle ball on that yellow bat.

Oh, there's no better feeling.