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Given the difficulties of trying to finish the shortened 2020 regular season and all the restrictions required, then factoring in the lack of a coronavirus vaccine and the inability to institute universal rapid testing, it's illogical to assume the 2021 baseball season will return to normal.
Two stretches of baseball in this shortened and unusual baseball season offered a glaring juxtaposition of the Mariners and where they might be in this rebuild process.
Seattle finished the season with a 27-33 record and in third place in the American League West after a 6-2 loss to Oakland on Sunday.
OAKLAND, Calif. — The Oakland Athletics sure would like to be swinging better in late September with the playoffs fast approaching.
OAKLAND, Calif. — The Oakland Athletics would like to be swinging better in late September with the playoffs fast approaching.
Even in a season limited to just 60 games and an expanded playoff field where it feels like more teams make it than don't, the 2020 Mariners felt the same emptiness that those teams before them -- dating to 2002 -- all experienced at varying points in their respective seasons, some much earl…
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — J.P. Crawford hit an RBI double in an eight-run third inning as Seattle completed a doubleheader sweep over AL West champion Oakland with a 12-3 victory in the nightcap.
Nick Margevicius tossed six shutout innings, France drove in a pair of runs and the Mariners kept their slim postseason hopes alive with a 3-2 win over the Houston Astros on Wednesday.
After taking a second fastball that registered more than 90 mph off his helmet in the span of six days, Seattle's Dylan Moore was forced to the seven-day concussion injured list and his season is done.
In a game they needed to win to keep the pulse of their fading postseason hopes alive, the Mariners knew they would probably need to get four quality innings of bullpen work to have any sort of chance at a victory, well, unless they scored eight or nine runs.
Marco Gonzales was dominant on the mound, Evan White broke open a tight game with a three-run homer in the seventh and the Mariners beat the Astros 6-1 Monday night.
Now, the Mariners can fly back to Seattle to wrap up their final homestand of the shortened 2020 season with games actually played at T-Mobile Park.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Padres will have to wait at least one more day to clinch their first playoff berth in 14 seasons after former teammates Ty France and Luis Torrens led the Seattle Mariners to a 4-1 victory Saturday night.
As Mariners manager Scott Servais sat down for his pregame video conference with local media for Friday night’s opening game against the Padres, it wasn’t from the familiar media room in T-Mobile Park.
As Yusei Kikuchi tried to navigate his way through the Padres' lineup, lacking command (making a pitch go where it's supposed to go) or control (throwing strikes), both of which apparently opted for a Friday night in the Gas Lamp district, it became clear in the first few innings that this w…
SAN FRANCISCO — The nomadic Mariners are taking their bats from the Bay Area to Southern California for three more “home games” on the road.
The Mariners' weekend series slated in Seattle against the Padres has been moved to San Diego due to poor air quality from wildfire smoke.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Brandon Belt, Brandon Crawford and Evan Longoria homered for San Francisco, and the visiting Giants playing at home beat the Seattle Mariners 9-3 on Wednesday night in a game moved to the Bay Area because of smoky, dangerous air in Western Washington.
The two-game series between the San Francisco Giants and Mariners in Seattle that was scheduled to start tonight was postponed because of poor air quality caused by the West Coast wildfires.
The Mariners rallied from five runs down in the opening game of twin bill on Monday to beat Oakland, 6-5, before the A's hand Seattle a 9-0 defeat in the nightcap.
Kyle Lewis makes a leaping, grand-slam robbing catch in Mariners' play of the year.
Kyle Lewis sparked Seattle’s rally with a two-run homer and walked with the bases loaded in the sixth inning, helping the Mariners top the Oakland Athletics 6-5 on Monday in the opener of a doubleheader.
Today's doubleheader between the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics today at T-Mobile Park in Seattle is still scheduled to be played despite poor air quality from wildfire smoke.
The Seattle Storm finished the WNBA's shortened regular season with the second-best record in the league following Sunday's 86-84 loss to the Las Vegas Aces in Bradenton, Florida.
PHOENIX (AP) — Ty France and José Marmolejos hit homers, Justus Sheffield pitched seven quality innings and the Seattle Mariners snapped a three-game losing streak by beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 7-3 on Saturday night.
TACOMA — As the smoke cloud began to overtake the South Puget Sound late Friday morning, making the scenery beyond the walls of Cheney Stadium into hazy outlines and air quality the equivalent of the feeling of licking an ashtray, it seemed like the long-awaited sight of Emerson Hancock pitc…
PHOENIX — Caleb Smith had a miserable start to the abbreviated 2020 season, but it didn't have anything to do with his performance on the field. Instead, he was one of more than a dozen Miami Marlins who was quarantining in separate small hotel rooms after testing positive for COVID-19.
SAN FRANCISCO — Mike Yastrzemski hit a three-run homer as the San Francisco Giants defeated the Seattle Mariners 10-1 for their fifth straight win Wednesday night under skies turned orange by raging wildfires in Northern California.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pinch-hitter Darin Ruf homered with one out in the seventh inning and the San Francisco Giants beat Seattle 6-5 on Tuesday night, ending the Mariners’ six-game winning streak.
The playoff push has begun for the Mariners.
SEATTLE — Kyle Seager hit a two-run homer, rookie Kyle Lewis added a solo shot and the Seattle Mariners beat the Texas Rangers 4-3 on Sunday.
Rookie Jose Marmolejos hit a tiebreaking single in the eighth inning after twice leaving the bases loaded, and the Seattle Mariners beat the Texas Rangers 5-3 on Saturday night.
SEATTLE — Yusei Kikuchi struck out seven, J.P. Crawford hit a three-run home run and the Seattle Mariners beat the Texas Rangers 6-3 on Friday night.
The three-day hiatus was unexpected but not entirely unwelcome.
The Mariners will be the only players on the field at T-Mobile Park for the next few days.
SEATTLE — Even Charlie Blackmon staying hot at the plate was upstaged on this night by a foursome of Colorado Rockies pitchers, led by the debut of rookie Ryan Castellani.
Here's the thing about rallies in baseball or in any sport: They are never just a product of the offense, even though that's often what is most remembered.
To cut their roster down to 28 players, the Mariners option Jose Marmolejos and Bryan Shaw to Tacoma
Based on the agreed-upon guidelines for the 2020 MLB season, the Mariners trimmed their 30-man roster down to 28 on Thursday morning, optioning first baseman/outfielder Jose Marmolejos and right-handed reliever Bryan Shaw to the team’s alternative training site in Tacoma.
SEATTLE (AP) — Shohei Ohtani homered in his first plate appearance since being shut down as a pitcher, Dylan Bundy struck out 10 in the third complete game of his career and the Los Angeles Angels beat the Seattle Mariners 6-1 on Thursday.
In the first days of the season, Dylan Moore sat and watched others get the playing time he desperately craved.
SEATTLE — Scorching slugger Kyle Seager hit a three-run homer, rookie Kyle Lewis stayed hot with an RBI single, and the Seattle Mariners overcame two home runs by Mike Trout to beat the Los Angeles Angels 7-6 on Wednesday night.
SEATTLE (AP) — Pinch-hitter Robbie Grossman lined an RBI double to score Tony Kemp in the top of the 10th inning, and the Oakland Athletics rallied for a 3-2 win over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday night.
If only the cardboard cutouts of players' families, fans of all ages and backgrounds, a few dogs and someone dressed as a lucha libre professional wrestler could go from fastened to the forest green seats of T-Mobile Park to their feet for a standing ovation.
TACOMA, Wash. — As Jarred Kelenic walked to the plate for his first at-bat at Cheney Stadium, there was no walk-up music blasting. There were no fans to cheer with excitement for seeing their prized prospect make his debut at the Triple-A level. And there wasn’t a real opposing team looking …
For the sixth time in their only six games of the 2020 season, the Mariners allowed more than six runs in game -- numerology aside -- it's a dubious distinction to be certain. But given the limited pitch counts for their starting pitchers and some of their inexperience or past inconsistency,…
The unmistakable sound — not as jarring as a rifle blast but more intoxicating than a popped cork of celebratory Champagne — came first.
SEATTLE — Even though the 2020 Major League Baseball season doesn’t officially begin until July 23-24, the league released the schedule for the 2021 season Thursday morning.
The last of the Mariners’ six draft picks from the 2020 Major League Baseball amateur draft signed his professional contract on Monday.
SEATTLE — With the 2020 Major League Baseball draft limited to just five rounds due to the shutdown because of the novel coronavirus, the Mariners stayed within the college ranks for all their selections, taking five college players on Day 2 — the final day.
With Major League Baseball shut down due to the spread of the novel coronavirus and the likelihood of resuming the 2020 season still largely unknown, the job status of some employees within the 30 teams has seemed tenuous.
