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.
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1200"] The T-Mobile Park grounds crew paints the postseason logo on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. Credit: Callaghan Bluechel/Emerald City Spectrum. [https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/caption] SEATTLE, Wash. — The Seattle Mariners have landed on the shores of Elysium
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Embed from Getty Images SEATTLE, Wash. — It’s hard to capture Josh Naylor in one word. He is intense and intimidating, yet calculated and nonchalant. His eyes seem to convey three things at once; the only thing they are not is blank. It is as if he is able to
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Embed from Getty Images SEATTLE, Wash. — Mariners manager Dan Wilson announced on Friday that the team has decided on the first two pitchers for the ALDS against the Detroit Tigers. George Kirby will start Game 1 on Saturday evening, while Luis Castillo will take the mound in Game 2 on
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Embed from Getty Images As the ALDS between the Seattle Mariners and Detroit Tigers quickly approaches, it is rapidly becoming clear that the Mariners’ ace, Bryan Woo, will have limited at best availability. Had he been fully healthy coming into the postseason, the M’s would have four starters they
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1206"] Bryan Woo throws from the mound during a live game simulation on Thursday, October 2, 2025. Credit: Callaghan Bluechel/Emerald City Spectrum. [https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/caption] SEATTLE, Wash. — Mariners starter Bryan Woo had his scheduled bullpen session
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="1200"] The Seattle Mariners take batting practice before a scrimmage Wednesday afternoon, where two squads of Mariners simulated game situations over five innings of play. Credit: Callaghan Bluechel/Emerald City Spectrum. [https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/caption] SEATTLE, Wash — The
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Embed from Getty Images The 2025 regular season has come and gone, and the Mariners find themselves near the top of the heap as the playoffs begin. While eight teams duke it out in best-of-three Wild Card Series from coast to coast, Seattle can watch and wait for
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Embed from Getty Images The Seattle Mariners may have a few days of relative rest over the coming week, but there is still plenty of action in the baseball world while the M’s have their breather. Two Wild Card series begin on Tuesday for the Junior Circuit, but with
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Embed from Getty Images SEATTLE, Wash. — Leo Rivas popped out to third, and the 162nd game of the regular season came to a close, a 6-1 loss for a Mariners team that is hungry to win it all. 18 teams in Major League Baseball saw the final frame finish
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Embed from Getty Images SEATTLE, Wash. — It was a back-and-forth game, each team leaving runs on the table as they fell victim to the others’ pitching, but in the end, the Dodgers bested the Mariners in another close contest in front of a visitor-friendly crowd at T-
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Embed from Getty Images SEATTLE, Wash. — For the first time since 2019, a late September Mariners game carried little significance. But unlike 2019, it was for a good reason: Seattle had already clinched the playoffs, the division, and, because of a Tigers win earlier in the day Thursday, a first-