Bluechel graduated from SPU in 2025 with a degree in Linguistics and Classics. Before joining Emerald City Spectrum, he wrote with the Falcon for two years between 2022 and 2024, covering SPU athletics as well as sports in the greater Seattle area.
Features
Embed from Getty Images SEATTLE, Wash. — Rarely does it all work out so perfectly. The fan favorite slugger, returned at the deadline, came up to the plate in the biggest moment of the season and hit a grand slam. The Mariners won Game 5 and got one win away from
News
Embed from Getty Images SEATTLE, Wash. — The Mariners’ third win didn’t come very easily. Runs, as is so often true in the playoffs, came at a premium for both teams—itself an improvement for Mariners pitching. Seattle and Toronto each had golden opportunities throughout the game, but almost all
News
Embed from Getty Images SEATTLE, Wash. — It was a whole lot of Blue Jays for the second straight night in Seattle, as the Mariners once again crumbled on their home stage on the mound and at the plate. In a season that has been filled with a whole lot of
News
Embed from Getty Images SEATTLE, Wash. — Bryce Miller, the ALCS Game 1 starter who went six full innings of one-run ball during Seattle’s upset victory on Sunday night in Toronto, will get the ball in Game 5 on Friday. Although there had been some speculation that Bryan Woo
News
Embed from Getty Images SEATTLE, Wash. — The only solace for the Mariners on Wednesday is that there is no difference between an ugly loss and a pretty loss in the final tally. It’s still 2-1 Seattle in the series, but with Toronto’s bats finally awake and Max
Analysis
After 47 long years of wandering through the desolation, the Seattle Mariners are just two wins away from reaching the promised land, all while they return to the friendly confines of T-Mobile Park for three games and a chance to win the series in front of a long-waiting
Analysis
Analysis
Embed from Getty Images TORONTO, Canada — When Jorge Polanco finished out his age-31 season batting .213 with a .651 OPS and the highest strikeout rate of his career, it seemed as if his career was in the throes of a precipitous decline at the hands of undefeated Father Time.
News
Embed from Getty Images TORONTO, Canada — The Mariners’ Game 1 victory against the Blue Jays was described as a “steal” by much of the North American continent, with the Mariners exhausted from a five-hour, 15-inning marathon in Game 5 of the ALDS. Game 2, on the other hand,
News
Embed from Getty Images TORONTO, Canada — Coming off a 15-inning marathon, with their most rested starter still on just three days of rest, it didn’t appear likely that the Mariners were going to take the first game in Toronto. But as so often happens in the postseason, good
Analysis
As the first few games of the ALCS come into full view, the Mariners and Blue Jays have put together a starting rotation for the first contest in Toronto with the Blue Jays also sure about their Game 2 and Game 3 guys. Seattle starts the series with a distinct
Analysis
Embed from Getty Images When there are 15 innings, 15 pitchers, and just about 15 missed chances to win spread across two teams in a winner-take-all postseason game, there are bound to be managerial decisions that have a great impact. Towards the end of the battle, both teams