Raul Ibañez belted a three-run home run in the first inning to jump-start the Mariners to an 8-3 victory over the San Diego Padres Sunday afternoon in Cactus League play at Peoria Stadium. The Mariners (2-1) scored five first-inning runs before an out was recorded by Padres starter and ex-Mariner ace Freddy Garcia.
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Washington’s gloomy season would have gone much better if the Huskies played in the Pac-2 with Arizona State instead of the Pac-12. The Huskies downed the Sun Devils 69-58 in Tempe Saturday in the team’s first complete-game effort since beating Arizona State in Seattle three weeks ago.
Newly acquired outfielder Jason Bay smacked a two-run homer with his first swing of the spring, jump-starting the Mariners’ 8-6 win over the San Diego Padres in front of 5,194 fans at Peoria Stadium Saturday. The victory was Seattle’s (1-1) first of the exhibition season.
The Sounders’ first hire of a UEFA Champions League winner, defender Djimi Traore, 32, was announced by the Sounders Saturday and will be added to the roster pending receipt of his P-I visa and international transfer clearance. Traore ( jimmy try-OR-ay), a 6-3, 191-pound defender, last played for Marseille in France, making 11 appearances from
UW will enter its final regular-season road game coming off an inept effort against Arizona in which the Huskies, according to Lorenzo Romar, “played with a lack of pride.”
San Diego rookie second baseman Jedd Gyorko blasted a grand slam in the first inning Friday as the Padres jumped all over Mariners starter Hector Noesi and rolled to a 9-3 victory in the annual charity game at Peoria Stadium. The game was the earliest start to Mariners’ exhibition season, in order to make room
The University of Washington Friday announced the lineup for the 27th Windermere Cup, the annual spring rowing event on the Montlake Cut May 4. The Huskies crews will be joined by Ivy League members Dartmouth and Cornell.
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For 12 minutes Wednesday night in Tucson, Washington shared no resemblance to the team that lost seven of its last nine. The Huskies were creating turnovers and turning them into points, leading the 12th-ranked Arizona Wildcats, 13-8. The Washington lead was almost as surprising as the snowstorm that dropped a few inches of snow on
Mariners’ 1977 expansion brothers, the Toronto Blue Jays, are the pick to win the World Series. Seattle? Um, no. But at 75-1, at least the M’s aren’t AL West newbie Astros (200-1).