Ahead of Monday's opener of a three-game series with the Angels at Safeco Field comes news that the Mariners aren't alone in personnel woes: Shohei Ohtani, the Los Angeles club's star acquisition highly coveted by Seattle the past off-season, reportedly will undergo Tommy John elbow surgery and miss the remainder of year as well as the 2019 season.

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Always innovating with ways to crush the disabled list, the Mariners tried a fresh tactic Friday: Two at once, from the same unit.

Relievers Juan Nicasio (right knee effusion) and Dan Altavilla (right elbow sprain) were placed on the 10-day disabled list ahead of Friday's game in Tampa against the Rays. Called up from Tacoma were DH/1B Dan Vogelbach and right-handed reliever Mike Morin.

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The Florida college, Stetson, that produced MLB pitchers Corey Kluber of the Indians and Jacob deGrom of the Mets provided the Mariners Monday with their first-round draft choice, 14th overall: Junior Logan Gilbert, a 6-6, 225-pound righthander who had 157 strikeouts and 23 walks in 15 starts for the Hatters of the Atlantic Sun Conference.

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Marco Gonzales hasn't given up an earned run in three games, including Monday. when he throttled the Texas Rangers for 6.2 innings in a 2-1 triumph (box) at Safeco Field that was the Mariners' fourth in a row and ninth in the past 10. At 33-20, the Mariners are a season-high 13 games above .500 and remain a game behind the Houston Astros in the American League West.

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The Mariners' injury travail, a runaway train in 2017, is picking up speed again. This time, it's leadoff hitter Dee Gordon, likely out several weeks with a fractured big toe. He's been the early season MVP for the 27-19 club, hitting .304, leading the American League in stolen bases (16) and playing good defense in center field. He returned Friday to play second base, his original MLB position.

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A milestone game between the Sounders and Timbers, No. 100 dating back to the primordial-ooze days of American soccer, turned into a millstone for the Seattle side. An easy 86th-minute goal by Sebastian Blanco, following the departure of a key Sounders defender to injury, not only accounted for Portland's 1-0 triumph, it kept the Sounders (2-5-2) in last place in the Western Conference.

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The Mariners had a bad weekend in soggy Detroit, losing two of three to the shorthanded  Tigers, as well as 2B Robinson Cano, who has a broken fifth metacarpal bone in his right hand after being struck by a pitch Sunday afternoon at Comerica Park.

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The Mariners' ties to Japan will be reinforced again when they join the Oakland A's in the Tokyo Dome for two games to open the 2019 regular season, the club announced Tuesday. The Mariners will be the road team, preserving their 81-game home schedule, and will leave spring training March 15 to play two exhibition games March 17-18 against Japanese teams before the A's games March 20-21.

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The Seahawks took care of another personnel vacancy by re-signing CB Byron Maxwell Friday, according to NFL.com. The one-year deal is worth up to $3 million with incentives. Maxwell was re-acquired in November after Richard Sherman's season ended with an Achilles tendon injury, and was subsequently released.

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The Mariners Thursday activated 1B Ryon Healy from the disabled list and sent down 1B Dan Vogelbach to AAA Tacoma. Healy was available in Cleveland, where the Mariners (13-10), who have won series against the Rangers and White Sox on this road trip, were to begin a four-game series against the AL Central Division-leading Indians (13-9) at 3:10 p.m. PT.

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Ken Hofmann, an owner with partner Ken Behring of the Seattle Seahawks from 1988 through 1997, died Sunday at 95. The Seahawks public relations department tweeted the news Tuesday evening. 

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Matisse Thybulle opted not to join 236 undergrads and international players declaring  early entry for the NBA draft June 21. The Pac-12 Conference defensive player of the year is returning for his senior season at the University of Washington.

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Short on lefty relievers, the Mariners re-acquired Roenis Elias, 29, from the Boston Red Sox Monday for a player to be chosen later or cash, and was assigned to AAA Tacoma. Elias was part of the Mariners' starting rotation in 2014-15, making a combined 49 starts, before being traded to Boston Dec. 7, 2015 along with reliever Carson Smith for pitchers Wade Miley and Jonathan Aro.

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C Mike Zunino has returned and will  hit seventh in his regular-season debut at 5:05 p.m. Friday in Texas when the Mariners (9-8) begin a 10-game trip with three against the struggling Rangers (7-13) at Globe Life Park. He'll catch Felix Hernandez, who has given up 12 hits and 11 runs in a combined 9.2 innings his two road starts this season.

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In need of a fifth starting pitcher for the first time this season, the Mariners (9-5) called up LHP Ariel Miranda from AAA Tacoma to start Tuesday's 7:10 p.m. game against the Astros (10-7) at Safeco Field. To make roster room, utility player Taylor Motter was sent down to the Rainiers.

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Ken Griffey Jr., who starred for the Mariners from 1989-99 and entered the Baseball Hall of Fame two years ago, Monday was named to the State of Washington Sports Hall of Fame, along with seven others: Washington State University football coach Mike Price, WSU running back Reuben Mayes, Sonics coach George Karl, jockey Alfred Johnson, Olympic heptathlete Kelly Blair LaBounty, softball pitcher Louise Mazzuca and Seattle baseball pioneer Dan Dugdale.

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Free agent Austin Davis, the back-up last season to QB Russell Wilson, returned to the Seahawks Monday on a one-year contract, the club said. NFL.com's Mike Garafolo reported that the deal doesn't necessarily mean the door is closed on talks with free agent Colin Kaepernick.

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The Seahawks Friday signed Sebastian Janikowski, one of the most productive kickers in NFL history, to replace Blair Walsh, an unrestricted free agent who had critical missed field goals in losses to Atlanta, Washington and Arizona last season. Janikowski, who signed for one year at undisclosed terms, is the second kicker signed by Seattle since the Walsh flop. Jason Myers, formerly of Jacksonville, was added in January.

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The Seahawks signed backup QB Stephen Morris Friday, the first quarterback to be added to the roster besides Russell Wilson. Colin Kaepernick, who was going to work out Monday for the Seahawks, remains a free agent after he declined to clarify his position on any pre-game protest against social injustice (see Thiel: Bennett's Book Helps Explain Balk at Kap).

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The Seahawks have signed free agent CB Dontae Johnson, 26, who started all 16 games last season for San Francisco. Johnson became expendable in the Bay Area after the 49ers signed CB Richard Sherman, a three-time All-Pro who had been released by Seattle.

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