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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Embed from Getty Images SEATTLE, Wash. – That’s how you take care of a last-place opponent in the heat of a playoff race. The Seattle Mariners took the cellar-dwelling Chicago White Sox to school on Tuesday, beating them by a healthy 8-3 score as Bryan Woo had
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SEATTLE, Wash. – As everyone predicted, Seattle Mariners hurler Logan Evans outdueled former Cy Young winner Jacob deGrom. It was a back-and-forth battle of the home run for the first two-thirds of the game on Sunday afternoon as the Seattle Mariners sparred with the Texas Rangers in the
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Embed from Getty Images SEATTLE, Wash. – Two steps forward, one step back. The Seattle Mariners dropped the third game of their big series against the Texas Rangers on Saturday, as the Seattle bullpen was the first to blink in an 11-inning thriller. Throughout the day, minor things were falling
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Embed from Getty Images SEATTLE, Wash. – A double negative can equal a positive in four things: English, Latin, mathematics, and baseball. J.P. Crawford came into the bottom of the ninth inning on Friday night in a pretty bad slump. In his last 46 plate appearances, the Mariners shortstop was
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SEATTLE, Wash. – Ready to dive into a trio of trades made by the ball club, Seattle Mariners president of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto sat down for a 20-minute dugout media interview on Thursday, July 31, just 50 minutes after the MLB trade deadline had passed. While the Seattle Mariners
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WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – An ugly road trip ended with a slightly less-ugly loss on Wednesday as the Seattle Mariners couldn’t contain the Athletics’ home run ball. Bryan Woo uncharacteristically surrendered four big flies to the now-Sacramento A’s, who came away with a series win against a
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Embed from Getty Images WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Max Schuemann swung under the high heat, and for the 24th time this season, Andrés Muñoz recorded the last out of a Seattle Mariners victory. But it was all due to third baseman Ben Williamson. While the M’s rookie certainly looks like
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ANAHEIM, Calif. – Mike Trout slugged a door-slamming shot far over the center field wall and the Seattle Mariners were down for the count for the rest of the ballgame on Sunday, suffering a 4-1 loss to the Los Angeles Angels. The first four games of a seven-game
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Embed from Getty Images ANAHEIM, Calif. – It’s been a while, but the Seattle Mariners had what could be considered a good, solid win. 7-2 was the final tally in California and the team picked up a game on the Astros while keeping distance with the Rangers in the
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Embed from Getty Images ANAHEIM, Calif – It was far shakier than it should have been, but a win is a win on the road. The Seattle Mariners followed up the team’s big acquisition of Josh Naylor with a win on the field as the squad rode three home runs
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Embed from Getty Images SEATTLE, Wash. – Bats asleep, gloves made of swiss cheese, and groove balls galore. The Seattle Mariners had an ugly game to finish off the opening homestand of the second half, losing 10-2 to the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday and dropping the series in the process.
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Embed from Getty Images SEATTLE, Wash. – Sometimes, you only need one guy to cross the plate. Two of the best pitchers in Major League Baseball went head-to-head on Tuesday night with Logan Gilbert and Jacob Misiorowski dueling and just a single run came out of it. Thankfully for