Spring training is a time to explore the space and value live game reps over the actual final score. Like Whose Line Is It Anyway, everything is made up and the wins/losses don't really matter as long as everyone who is supposed to get some work in sees the field. Throw in the added strangeness of an exhibition between a MLB team and World Baseball Classic participant, and the unexpected was to be expected.
So it's perfectly explainable that a situation arose during Tuesday night's Puerto Rico-Red Sox tilt that saw a Boston pitcher taking the hill and throwing against his team. The footage is still slightly jarring.
