Lefty Joe Saunders (4-5) yielded one run over 6.1 innings and 41-year-old Raul Ibanez clubbed his 10th home run as the Mariners rebounded from a 10-0 shellacking in Minnesota to pin a 4-2 defeat on the flailing Chicago White Sox Monday night at Safeco Field in front of a paltry throng of 13,941.
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The Mariners return to Safeco Field Monday to begin a 10-day home stand that includes the only Yankees against the Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees and Houston Astros.
A third Sounder has been called to the World Cup qualification round. Midfielder Mario Martinez will join his native Honduras for three matches June 7-18. Martinez, 23, will join Honduras to play Costa Rica Friday, Jamaica June 11, and the U.S. June 18 in Sandy, UT. Martinez will miss Saturday’s home match against Vancouver.
The University of Washington added another amazing chapter to its storied rowing tradition by three-peating as men’s national champions at the 111th annual IRA National Championships which concluded Sunday on Lake Natoma in Gold River, CA. The No. 1-ranked Huskies finished a perfect weekend by sweeping all five Grand Finals for their 16th overall national
The Mariners had to make multiple roster moves (see below) in order to clear room on the major league roster for Kennewick native Jeremy Bonderman. All the flurry got them was a lame 10-0 loss to the Minnesota Twins Sunday at Target Field. Bonderman, making his first start since Oct. 1, 2010, and working on
With Brandon Maurer sent to Tacoma, the Mariners call on veteran Jeremy Bonderman Sunday to pitch the final game against the Minnesota Twins.
Timing couldn’t have been better for the Sounders. Facing a struggling Chivas USA (3-8-2), a club that fired coach José Luis Sánchez Solá on Wednesday and hadn’t won in its last seven matches, Seattle (5-4-3) cruised to a 2-0 victory Saturday night in front of 9,053 fans at Home Depot Center in Carson, CA.
The Mariners took a 4-2 lead into the bottom of the ninth Saturday at Minnesota, seemingly poised to win three in a row for the first time since May 1-4. They certainly didn’t count on closer Tom Wilhelmsen unraveling, but he did in a major way, walking the first three batters he faced before surrendering
Hard to tell which club is reeling more, the Sounders or Chivas USA. Seattle has been outscored 5-0 in its past two (all competitions) and Chivas is the worst in MLS.
The Mariners, behind the pitching of Hisashi Iwakuma and the hitting of Kendrys Morales, beat Minnesota 3-0 Friday and have won four of six since an eight-game losing streak.