In four losses, Mariners pitching gave up 46 runs. In three wins, they gave up 10. But LF Ben Gamel and C Mike Zunino are raking as they never have.
Author: Steve Rudman
Steve Rudman
Steve began his journalistic career in an era in which social networking mainly occurred in saloons. In the years since, he has been a reporter and columnist (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), a magazine founder and editor (The National Sports Review), the Director of Research at ESPN (once had the chore of looking up the history of rain delays in major league baseball), a radio talk show host (fired by KIRO because stupid people need radio stations, too, according to the program director), and the producer of a syndicated sports statistical feature (titled Wow!Stats), distributed by Universal Press Syndicate (quick, name three countries in which athletes are eaten when they fail to perform). He wrote (with Karen Chave) 100 Years of Husky Football, Who The Hell is Bob? (one of Seattles more remarkable people) and collaborated with Art Thiel (Sports Press Northwest) and Mike Gastineau (KJR-AM) on The Great Book of Seattle Sports Lists, a ribald compendium of Seattle sports exotica that should be made into a movie (Brad Pitt playing Steve). He gained everlasting infamy in 1985 (at least in Corvallis, Ore.), when, in a column in the Post-Intelligencer, he called the Oregon State Beavers The Barney Fife of College Football, then sat stupefied as the 37-point underdog Beavers cast aside a 28-year slump and beat the Huskies. As of this writing, that game (which resulted in an official, Oregon State-issued game ball for Steve) still generates 314,000 Google pages, most of them from unenlightened (and presumably salt pillar-licking) OSU fans. Steve has yet to issue an apology on Facebook or Twitter and has no plans to do so.
The Mariners had a 3-3 week and a 7-4 homestand after losing 4-0 to Toronto Sunday, but have climbed back into the AL wild card race.
The Mariners enjoyed a 6-1 week, but failed to gain ground on the Houston Astros in the AL West, actually falling further behind in the division race.
The Mariners opened the sixth week of the season with two impressive victories, but ended it with four consecutive losses to fall nine games out of first in the AL West.
The Mariners won series against the Angels and Rangers and moved into third place in the AL West, but lost James Paxton and two relievers to injury.
Legendary Pacific Northwest journalist, talk-show host, media character and wit J Michael Kenyon passed away April 26 in Port Orford, OR. at age 73.
The Mariners completed a 3-3 week Sunday with a 12-4 loss at Cleveland to finish April 11-15. They’ve never made the playoffs in a season when they had a losing April.
Except for taking All-Pro FS Earl Thomas in 2010, the Seahawks haven’t done anything notable in the first round of the draft under John Schneider and Pete Carroll.
At 8-12, the Mariners are tied with the Angels for last, thanks largely to a 1-3 series loss to the A’s in Oakland, salved somewhat by an 11-1 walloping Sunday that included a Taylor Motter grand slam.
Four prime-time games (one fewer than a year ago), highlighted by a Monday night game Nov. 20 against NFC champion Atlanta, are part of the 2017 schedule that opens in Green Bay.