Author: SPNW Staff

Takeaway Two outs, two strikes, so what? The Mariners’ seasonal start provided its most impressive moment when CF Leonys Martin beat the Oakland A’s with a two-run, walk-off home run in the ninth inning Tuesday. Martin crushed a 1-2 pitch over the right field fence for the 6-5 triumph.

By advancing some game starts to 2:30 and 6 p.m., the Pac-12 hopes to eliminate up to four games that would have started at 7 p.m. or later.

Washington State University Tuesday announced that it will induct a seven-member class, headed by QB Jason Gesser and head football coach Mike Price, into its Athletic Hall of Fame Sept. 16. The inductees will be introduced during the WSU-Idaho football game Sept. 17 in Pullman. The new honorees will swell the Hall of Fame roster

After serving as the University of Washington’s interim athletic director for the past four months, Jennifer Cohen officially replaced former AD Scott Woodward Tuesday.

Five former University of Washington rowers, including four in the men’s eight, made the U.S. team for the Summer Olympics in Rio at the qualifying regatta Tuesday in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Takeaway Home, bittersweet home. An anemic offense and two eighth-inning errors from SS Chris Taylor doomed the Mariners, whose four-game winning streak came to a halt by way of a 5-0 loss to the Oakland A’s Monday night. A’s starter Rich Hill threw eight shutout innings to improve to 4-0 with a 1.35 ERA over

The division-leading Mariners finished a sweep of the Reds in Cincinnati Sunday and went 5-1 on the road trip. The pending home stand has three sub-.500 teams.

Takeaway LF Franklin Gutierrez crushed a 473-foot home run to the upper deck in left, Felix Hernandez twice worked out of bases-loaded snafus, and the Mariners (25-17) won their third consecutive game with a 4-0 whitewash of the Cincinnati Reds Saturday at Great American Ballpark (box). The win was the fourth in five games on

Takeaway Trailing 3-0 after five, the Mariners erupted for eight runs in the final four innings and whipped the Reds 8-3 Friday night at Cincinnati’s Great American Ballpark. 1B Dae-Ho Lee came off the bench as a pinch hitter and delivered a tie-breaking, two-run single in the seventh and added a solo homer in the

Takeaway  After a 5-2 loss Wednesday, the Mariners, the best road team in the American League, bounced back to win the series in Baltimore with a 7-2 triumph at Camden Yards Thursday (box). 1B Adam Lind homered, his third of the season, to break open the game. The Mariners are 15-7 in away games and