Author: SPNW Staff

Takeaway Pinch-hitter Logan Morrison’s two-run homer in the eighth inning was the difference in the Mariners’ 7-5 win over the division-leading Astros (box score) Tuesday night at Minute Maid Park. In the fifth, Mark Trumbo also had a two-run homer, measured at 464 feet, and Franklin Gutierrez had a first-inning solo shot. The Mariners entered

The Mariners Tuesday called up four players — two pitchers, an infielder and an outfielder — from AAA Tacoma as part of the annual Sept. 1 roster expansion. RHPs Jose Ramirez and Tony Zych, INF Shawn O’Malley and OF Stefen Romero were available Tuesday night when the Mariners played the second of three against the

Update: Free agent RB Fred Jackson, 34, had a visit with the Seahawks Monday and left without signing a contract. Coach Pete Carroll said backup RB Robert Turbin had a high ankle sprain in the Saturday game in San Diego. Freeman, a former teammate of Marshawn Lynch in Buffalo, was cut as the Bills reached

Takeaway After Mark Trumbo hit a second-inning, second-deck home run to tie the game 1-1, Houston ripped into Seattle starter Vidal Nuno for three bombs and crushed the Mariners 8-3 Monday night at Minute Maid Park. In 14 meetings between the teams this season, the AL-West-leading Astros have won 10 with an embarrassing 83-50 lead

Mariners trade one of their hottest bats to Cubs for a player to be named later and cash. Jackson will be a free agent at the end of the season.

The Seahawks had a bit of a surprise in the first round of cuts the team announced Monday afternoon from its 90-man roster: C Lemuel Jeanpierre, a sixth-year veteran who was in the middle of the scrum to replace traded Max Unger. Drew Nowak, a three-year vet who was on the practice squad a year

Takeaway Scuffing a 4-1 lead and then blowing a chance to win in the ninth inning, the Mariners lost 6-5 in Chicago Sunday (box score) when Tyler Saladino singled home the winning run in the 11th off David Rollins, the Mariners’ fifth pitcher. The White Sox scored two earlier runs off three Mariners errors, including

Takeaway Up 5-o in the fifth, the Mariners barely hung on to beat the Chicago White Sox 7-6 (box score) on a rainy Saturday night in Chicago, thanks mostly to a solid ninth inning from Tom Wilhelmsen and four hits from Robinson Cano. Kyle Seager’s two-run homer in the first got the edge on Chicago starter Jeff Samardzija. The four-hour, 16-minute contest was MLB’s second-longest nine-inning game this season.

Takeaway A pair of solo shots in the top of the sixth proved the difference as the Mariners won game two against the White Sox 2-0 (box score) at U.S. Cellular Field in Chicago. Third baseman Kyle Seager featured on offense and defense, hitting one of the homers and sparking a bases-loaded double play to

Takeaway Teams that manage one hit in seven innings and go 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position don’t often win ballgames. The Mariners were that team Thursday in Chicago, losing 4-2 (box score) in the first of a four-game series with the White Sox.