MINNEAPOLIS -- Going into Wednesday night’s start against the Twins, George Kirby had given up just two home runs in 38 1/3 innings. Three batters into the game, that total had doubled. Four batters after that, the Twins added another long ball. Those early hiccups were enough to doom Kirby

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Big league closers can come from all areas of the pitching world. Some are guys who have always been relievers, from college all the way up to the big leagues. Some were starters whose power stuff (and perhaps lack of command) were better suited for shorter stints coming out of

MINNEAPOLIS -- The Mariners’ 10-6 victory over the Twins on Tuesday night at Target Field can be easily broken into two pieces. There was before Cal Raleigh entered the game, and then there was after he entered the game. Raleigh’s pinch-hit grand slam with one out in the seventh inning

This story was excerpted from Daniel Kramer’s Mariners Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. SEATTLE -- The T-shirts surfaced in Spring Training and they quickly became a hit for on-field workouts and batting practice. By the end of

The Rookie-level Arizona Complex and Florida Complex leagues began play last Saturday, a month earlier than they did a year ago. The changes mean that the circuits will be populated more by players making the jump from the Rookie-level Dominican Summer League the season before and less by guys coming

MINNEAPOLIS – In a big-time pitchers’ duel, it often comes down to who blinks first. Luis Castillo was as locked in as he’s been all season against the Twins on Monday, but it didn’t take much to spoil his night as the Twins pulled out a 3-1 victory. “He’s a

HOUSTON -- Cal Raleigh takes defeat hard, sometimes personally, and he admittedly dwells longer than most. Especially on those he perceives to be winnable games, like the Mariners’ gut-punch loss in their series opener at Minute Maid Park on Friday. So when it looked like another late-innings script was steering

HOUSTON -- The sweat seeped from Logan Gilbert's bushy locks down his forehead as he descended into the visiting dugout at Minute Maid Park late Saturday night. He’d just thrown his eighth scoreless inning in another masterpiece within a season that’s becoming full of them, and as he shook manager

HOUSTON -- It had all the familiar and frustrating ingredients that the Mariners had seemingly exorcised in this building one year ago, one slow gut punch after another in a fateful seventh inning that sunk Seattle in a 5-3 loss on Friday night at Minute Maid Park. Five walks, the

This story was excerpted from Daniel Kramer’s Mariners Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. HOUSTON -- The Mariners put a bow on their first month-plus of the season earlier this week, going 17-13 and ending April in sole

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SEATTLE -- Emerson Hancock found himself in one jam too many on Wednesday afternoon, and in an attempt to get the Braves to chase their way into outs, he wound up pitching behind in counts and creating too big of a hole to dig out from in a 5-2 loss

SEATTLE -- The Mariners’ starting rotation has reached lather-rinse-repeat territory with an ongoing string of dominant performances. But it was the Seattle relief corps that remarkably averted a massive crisis to reach the finish line in a 3-2 win over the Braves on Tuesday night. As the dust settled in

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April is in the books, but there’s still plenty of baseball left to be played this season, and you can follow all the action on MLB.TV for a new reduced price. MLB.TV’s All Teams Yearly package, which enables you to stream every out-of-market game, live or on demand, on your

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With April having come to a close, we are a full month-plus into the 2024 season -- which means the events of the past month are worth analyzing. Sure, it’s just one month into a six-month regular season, but plenty of trends have already begun to take shape. Let’s take

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SEATTLE -- On a night when Bryce Miller flirted with perfection, then his teammates looked like the ones who’d be no-hit, the Mariners remarkably cast some late-inning magic en route to a 2-1 walk-off win over the Braves on Monday at T-Mobile Park. Mitch Garver blasted a 412-foot two-run homer

SEATTLE -- Like a fair few things this season, the call on A.J. Minter’s 3-0 fastball in the bottom of the ninth inning Monday did not go Mitch Garver’s way. Garver thought Minter’s fastball was off the plate, but home-plate umpire Lance Barksdale called it a strike, keeping Garver in