Takeaway The historically lame streak of scoring no more than three runs in 13 consecutive games — a franchise record — vanished with Kyle Seager’s third-inning grand slam, and the Mariners continued to pour it on in a 9-3 shellacking of the Cleveland Indians Wednesday at Progressive Field. Receiving six effective innings from starter Taijuan
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The Sounders will be without midfielder Marco Pappa for Saturday’s CenturyLink Field match with FC Dallas due to his call-up by the Guatemala National Team for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers Thursday and Monday against Bermuda. The 27-year-old Pappa has 37 caps and 10 goals for Guatemala.
Takeaway LHP Roenis Elias allowed one run over six innings and struggling 2B Robinson Cano had two doubles in leading the Mariners to a 3-2 win over the Indians on Tuesday night at Progressive Field in Cleveland (box score). However, the win was overshadowed by Nelson Cruz departing the game in the fifth inning with
The Mariners Tuesday selected eight players on the second day of the amateur draft, starting with OF Braden Bishop out of the University of Washington with their third-round pick. Bishop hit .293 with 26 doubles, three triples, four home runs, 65 RBIs and 42 stolen bases in 149 games during his career with the Huskies.
The master of both coin flip and team-first, Tarvaris Jackson will return to the Seahawks to back up QB Russell Wilson, according to Fox Sports Tuesday. Jackson had been a free agent looking a chance to compete for a starting job, but finally accepted the Seahawks offer.
University of Washington football coach Chris Petersen Tuesday signed a junior college QB for fall. City College of San Francisco quarterback Tony Rodriguez was offensive player of the year on the Region I All-California junior college team last year and was also the Bay 6 Conference offensive MVP.
The Mariners Monday selected a pair of pitchers with their first two selections in the 2015 first-year player draft, starting with 18-year-old RHP Nick Neidert at 60th overall. Neidert played prep baseball at Peachtree Ridge High School in Lawrenceville, GA., where he was named all-region.
Takeaway The streak is over. And the Mariners might – might – have a new closer. Those revelations came Saturday night during Seattle’s 2-1 win over Tampa Bay, which snapped a seven-game losing streak. Carson Smith, not Fernando Rodney, earned the save. Boy, did he make it look easy.
Two major calls against the Sounders — offsides on Lamar Neagle in the 66th minute that nullified a goal, and a controversial yellow card on Stefan Frei in the 84th that set up Benny Feilhaber’s winning penalty kick — provided Sporting Kansas City a 1-0 victory Saturday over a Seattle team missing Clint Dempsey, Obafemi
Takeaway On the seventh day, the streak didn’t rest. Fernando Rodney was in the center of the maelstrom again, having given up the game-winning homer in the top of the ninth inning of Friday’s 1-0 loss to Tampa Bay, but he wasn’t the only goat for the Mariners. 2B Robinson Cano is getting plenty of