This early spring training game was won 10-8 by the Indians with a four run eighth inning. Ernie Young’s two-run single drove home the go-ahead runs. What I like about this scoresheet is the appearance of Grady Sizemore as a pinch-runner for Matt Lawton in the bottom of the fifth. He would subsequently come to the plate twice and draw a walk each time, a nice way to make an impression on this observer. This sort of thing observed years later is what make scoring spring training games worth it.
It is even more fun when the player in question is one who was not a big-time prospect. While few expected that Sizemore would be the player that he is, he was certainly well-known as he had been included in the Bartolo Colon trade. If you look at an old sheet and find a sleeper prospect playing in the late innings of a blowout who winds up making good, it’s kind of cool.
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