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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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[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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Opening the final regular season series for both teams, with seeding up for grabs for the two playoff-bound squads, the Mariners and Dodgers dueled it out in all nine innings in a tightly contested battle. With the Dodgers winning this game by a score of 3-2, the Mariners
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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-
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Embed from Getty Images SEATTLE, Wash. — Carpe diem! Those are Horace’s most famous words. Literally taken, the phrase means “harvest the day”, but seize the moment is perhaps a better translation. Those are the words, in English, that adorn a banner above the left field bleachers in T-Mobile
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Embed from Getty Images SEATTLE, Wash. — Neck-hairs upright, chills across their bodies of nearly four myriad people, every corporeal vessel—despite the spirits they carry having flown into the stratosphere long ago—stood in place to allow wondrous eyes to spot their night’s hero. Josh Naylor alone may
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Embed from Getty Images Words can hardly capture the seeming strangeness of the moment. Summer has turned to fall, and yet the Seattle Mariners are sitting pretty in the AL West. The M’s are fresh off the biggest sweep of the season against none other than the Houston Astros,
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Embed from Getty Images HOUSTON, Texas — The collapse of the old baseball order is seemingly upon us. The mighty Astros, through whom the American League has run for what seems like an eon, lay gravely wounded on the marble steps of baseball’s postseason shrine with just one week left
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Embed from Getty Images HOUSTON, Texas — With one catch in Houston, Víctor Robles etched his name in the wall of Mariners who will never be forgotten. Daikin Park is nothing if not the graveyard of pretenders. Memories of late-inning Astros comebacks, specters of the Evil Empire’s umbral victories:
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Embed from Getty Images HOUSTON, Texas — It’s still too early to tell what the biggest news from Friday night’s Houston opener was, but until Bryan Woo’s MRI comes back, the Mariners can guardedly celebrate a massive 4-0 win against their arch-nemesis. Any time your pitching
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Embed from Getty Images HOUSTON, Texas — There are few things a ball club wants to see less. The ace of the rotation is pitching a gem, well on track to breeze through seven or even eight innings. He goes out for the sixth, but he seems to be in discomfort
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Embed from Getty Images KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Seattle Mariners did what they had to do in Kauffman Stadium. Things have often run close in Kansas City for the M’s in recent years, but as they have done many times before, the team scratched across a series win against