Minnesota hadn’t scored in 25 innings before breaking through against the Mariners Friday. Seattle’s best hope of snapping its seven-game losing streak: King Felix.
Author: SPNW Staff
GK Bryan Meredith, who closed out the win Wednesday win against Los Angeles, will start for the injured Gspurning against the Philadelphia Union Saturday.
Mariners manager Eric Wedge told Chone Figgins Friday that he has lost his place in the Mariners lineup, and will ride the bench as a utility player. Wedge met with Figgins before the game Friday at Safeco Field. Hitting .189, Figgins has struck out 28 times in 95 at-bats. In the last seven games, Figgins hit
Opening Day of boating season will have Washington’s highly ranked crews up against the national teams from Argentina in the 26th annual Windermere Cup Saturday.
Minnesota appears to be the worst team in the American League, but after six losses in a row, the Mariners might give them an argument for the title.
The Mariners’ scoring pace is up over a year ago, and home runs have improved, but they still can’t do anything when they get a man in position to score.
Here’s the good news: The Mariners’ six-game losing streak is well short of the club record of 17 set a year ago. The bad news: It’s early. In front of the biggest crowd of the series, 11,575, the Tampa Bay Rays completed a four-game sweep of the Mariners, the first in history between the teams,
Tampa will attempt to sweep the Mariners for the first time in a four-game series Thursday, concluding a 10-game trip; Mariners return home Friday against Minnesota.
Kyle Seager belted a three-run homer in the first inning and a solo shot in the sixth, but the Mariners (11-15) could do little else offensively Wednesday and dropped their fifth consecutive game, a 5-4 decision to the Tampa Bay Rays. The streak, following four wins in a row to start the current 10-day, 10-game
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