Rainier Baseball and More

Since the Seattle Mariners  are  not

playing season opener  until Friday

we will  look at the Tacoma Rainiers

and other sports. 

We will look to see how the Mariners 

minor leaguers are doing g throughout 

the season.  The Rainiers  have played 

two games so far against Salt Lake at

home. They won the opener Tuesday 

4-2 and lost Wednesday 9-5.

Taylor Trammell a familiar face to

Mariner fans starting last season 

for the Mariners  hit a double in the

opener while getting  his first home

run of the season  Wednesday night. 

Like last season all series are six games.

They will have  Monday's off for traveling.

In the opener  Josh Morgan Rainiers 

catcher had his first career home run.

Darren McCaughan who pitched a

couple times late last season for the

Mariners was the Rainiers  starter. He

pitched five and two-thirds innings 

giving up the two runs on seven hits.

Darren walked two while striking out

nine. Not bad for first start of season. 

The rest of the minor league teams of

the Mariners start their season on Friday.

Football wise Seahawks general manager 

John Schneider says they won't trade star

receiver DK Metcalf.  Of course,  we have 

heard that one before.  We will see what

may happen before the NFL draft on April 

28.

The Washington Huskies have snatched a

couple players in the transfer portal. A 

Wide receiver/running back Will Nixon from

Nebraska.  It is important a running back 

in the new Huskies system can catch the 

ball too. Be interesting to see how much 

Nixon will play. The other is running back

Wayne Taulapapa from Virginia. Spring 

camp the Huskies are limited with Richard

Newton still out with injury and Cameron 

Davis as well Both expected high on the

running back  depth chart. Go Dawgs!