Mariners Win Streak Ends

The Mariners continue to struggle 

on the road losing to the San Diego 

Padres  4-1.   This means the 

Mariners are now 1-6 on the road. 

The Mariners scored first in the 

second inning. Randy Arozarena 

hit a single the first of two in the

game.  The Mariners had only

four hits total. Luke Raley with

the third baseman  playing back

laid down a bunt for a single. 

JP was hit by a pitch loading 

the bases. Dominic Canzone 

hit a sacrifice fly scoring Arozarena.

Bryan Woo pitched seven innings 

for the third starter in a row. The

third inning was Woo's trouble 

inning giving up four hits and

three runs.  Ramon Laurano 

hit a triple with one out than came 

home on a Fernando Tatis Jr. single.

The following two runs were on two 

more single. The triple was the only

extra base hit in the game. 

The Padred score another run in

the bottom of the 8th off Casey 

Leguimina. A three run lead is

hard to make up in the ninth 

compared to having a two run

lead.

Wednesday Emerson Hancock 

startd to see whether they can

tie the series.  Go M's. 

The Seattle Mariners brought up

infielder Patrick Wisdom as Rob

Resynder took paternity leave.

Expect him back when the 

Mariners return home from

San Diego to take on the

Rangers on Friday.  Wisdom 

ended up hitting late in the 

game..  

The Men's Basketball Transfer Portal

The , Washington Huskies have added 

their player from the transfer portal in

guard junior Parker Freidrichsen.

The four star recruit out of high school

Washington will be his third spot. Coach

Sprinkle hopes he improves the team's 

three point shooting. At Davidson last 

year he averaged 10.8 points a game.

Freshman JJ Mandaquit who was starter

for  the Huskies when last season then

was hurt was the first transfer landing 

at Arizona. A good choice if you had to 

leave Washington. I am sure Coach 

Sprinkle will do a better job dealing with

players.  Zoom Diallo had a visit at 

Kentucky however hasn't committed yet.

Go Dawgs.

The transfer portal has  been brutal to

the WSU Cougars as they have lost 

basically the whole team. Only two

redshirt freshmen return. 

They have signed one player already 

in  Fraser Foxburgh a small forward 

from Manhattan. Updated will come.

Gonzaga had five players in the transfer 

portal as well as five who have eligibility 

used up. Unlike Washington State the

Zags will have easier time filling slots.

Adding a big man to go with Braden Huff 

is a must. Several big time programs 

have players in the transfer portal so

they should  be able to fill the spots 

soon. 

They did signed incoming sophomore 

Isiah Harwell from Houston Cougars. 

A swing man he played only 13.8 

minutes a game. He averaged 3.4 points

and two rebounds  in limited time.

We see whether he will be a starter

ot coming off the bench. 

Again we will see who else the Zags

acquire soon. 

The portal closes on April 21 however they

should be a me to sign players after that.

Do one week to go so we will check back

in unless a big name comes before that.

Goes for all three schools.

There are schools trying to recruit players 

who are not yet in the transfer portal 

My opinion those schools should be 

charged with tampering.   The NCAA 

board had put in rules on tampering

so coaches can lose 50 percent of

the season of they are caught.

At least something positive. 

Mariners Sweep Astros

After the last road trip where the Mariners 

went 1-5 and could have been 5-1 they

beat the Astros in all four games. 

Monday afternoon the Mariners beat the

Astros 6-2. They had a great opportunities 

to score more runs however the Mariners 

pitching shut the doors. 

It was primarily George who pitched into

the eighth inning and left with two outs.

George only walked one batter and that

was Alvarez at the end of his pitching.

He struck out seven batters. Matt Brash 

came in to get the last out of the 8th 

and  Cole Wilcox pitched the 9th just

giving up one walk.

Josh Naylor who has gotten off to a

rough start was the player of the game.

He hit his first home run in the first

inning after Cal and Julio had singles.

In the third inning he had a second 

homer with Donovan on base.  Luke 

Raley had his second three hit game 

in a row.  

The Mariners are still in 4th place in

the division however only one game

behind the A's in first place. The 

Mariners now go play the Padres 

for three so if they can do better 

on this road trip who knows. The

Mariners record is now  8-9. 

The Astros are in a bad place not

only  swept by the . Mariners they

continue losing players to the 

injured list. I am sure most Mariners 

fans are not to sympathetic to

them.

Bryan Woo will start the first game

Zin San Diego so we hope for a good

start. Go M's. 

Mariners Take Series

Though there is one game left on

Monday the Mariners are now 3-0

on this series. 

Logan Gilbert went seven innings 

for his best start. Arozarena and

Raley each had three hits.  Julio

getting better with two hits. 

Final  Mariners 6 Astros 1

Three of the runs Mariners were

on 9 walks so they had more

opportunity.  Monday against 

same opponent is unusual 

it will be a day game. George 

Kirby will pitch. 

Tuesday thru Thursday they

will play the Padres in San 

Diego before playing the 

Rangers in Seattle.

The Astros will be home to 

play  Colorado Rockies and 

St. Louis Cardinals. This 

should be it for the season 

against the Rockies. 

Kraken Miss Playoffs

The Seattle Kraken got off to a good 

start however it was awful in the 

secong half. 

Ron Francis who was the original 

general manager then became 

President about a year and a half 

resigned last week.  The Kraken

have had three head coaches 

so likely won't change the position 

now.  It is amazing since they did 

made playoffs once. 

It will be interesting to see what 

changes  they will make.

This last season the Seattle Storm

lost all there free agents. Have

to see how things go there too.

The Mariners at least won the two

games over the Astros in the start 

of this four game series. They are

only a game and a half out of first

place though early.  The A's lead

with 7-7 record. Hopefully the 

Mariners will win at least one of 

the two games in this series.

Mariners Make It Two

For  the second game in a row the

.Mariners beat the Astros on Saturday 

night 8-7. 

The Mariners began the game with 

a two run homer by Cal Raleigh in 

the first inning. The Astros scored

three runs in the second and third

then one run in the 4th. 

Luis Castillo who started gave up 

all seven runs on ten hits  before 

being lifted in the 4th inning with 

one out.  It looked dismall at the 

time. The Mariners used five 

relievers who gave up seven hits

however gave up no runs.

The Mariners scored five runs to

tie in the  5th inning. JP Crawford 

hit a single to drive in two runs.

Cal had a sacrifice fly to score 

Rivas then Julio had a home 

run scoring JP ahead of him. 

Everything was silent at least in

scoring until JP hit a single to 

short left field to score Rivas 

who had walked. 

Sunday the Mariners will look

to win the series with Logan 

Gilbert on the mound. 

Brendan Donovan is expected 

back on Sunday to start. How 

JP has done in these two games

I would leave him leading off

for the meantime. Go M's. 

Mariner End Losing Streak

The Seattle Mariners ended their five

game losing streak by beating the

Astro 9 to 6. 

It wasn't as easy as you would think

although they could have scored more

runs. The Astros who have injuries 

to their starting rotation the starter

in this game left after giving up three

runs in the first inning.  They could 

have scored at least a couple more 

runs.

It got tough in the top of the second 

inning for Emerson Hancock where 

he threw 3 to pitches in the inning.

The Astros were able to score three

runs thing the game. Hancock though

was able to survive going through

five innings.

In the bottom of  the fifth Randy Arozarena 

hit a two run to end the tie. It was into

the second level. What I thought was

funny Randy hit his helmet a few times 

right after the previous pitch. I think

he couldn't believe he didn't challenge

that pitch that was called a strike. You

have to decide fast to do so. If he

had challenged Randy might have

walked. I know the announcers didn't 

see what I did it at least didn't mention 

it. 

In the 7th inning the Mariners scored

four runs to make it 9-3. That didn't 

last long as the Astros had two straight 

singled in the top of the 8th than Yordan

Alvarez hits a three run homer to make

it 9-6.

In the top of the 9th with Andre Munoz 

in he walked two batters however he

was able to strand both runners with

with a ball hit to Rivas at who ran over 

to third and stepped on the bag to

end it. 

This is a four game series so important 

to win the first game.  Luis Castillo will

start Saturday in game two. All nine 

position players scored a run.  Ten 

Mariners were walked in the game.

In his second game Kade Anderson 

ended up striking out 11 of his first

14 batters. He ended up going five 

innings. Let's see how he goes in

his next outing for Arkansas.