Kade Anderson, who was the third overall pick in the 2025 MLB Draft, made his major league debut for the Seattle Mariners on Saturday. Anderson went five and two-thirds innings in the game, and Randy Arozarena was the hero. Arozarena hit the walk-off home run against the Chicago Cubs. While Arozarena was a hero at […]
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The Seattle Mariners have reached the stage of a busted season where they are just hunting around for reasons to smile. This was a 90-win team last season, one that came within a George Springer dinger of advancing to the franchise's first ever World Series. Now they are crud. More specifically, they are stuck three games back of the resurgent Houston damned Astros in their division; a couple of games back of the final American League wild card with four teams ahead of them; and six games belo...
Cal Raleigh went above and beyond for Mariners rookie Kade Anderson's debut. Why couldn't he extend a similar courtesy to Randy Arozarena in the World Baseball Classic?
It might feel like we can’t have nice things as Cub fans after a game like this. I’m sure there will be dozens of storylines all across the internet about the Cubs and blown saves on a day like this. And I’m not blowing smoke at anyone. I’m not revisiting this after a Saturday night […]
The Chicago Cubs faced off with the Seattle Mariners on Saturday. They went into the game struggling a bit. They had won just two of their previous six games, despite the Cubs getting MVP-level play from Pete Crow-Armstrong. Meanwhile, the Cubs have also had another star putting up great numbers: Jacob Webb coming out of […]
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On Kade Anderson day, the hero was Randy Arozarena as he took both the first pitch he saw, and the last pitch he saw deep to secure a stunning 5-4 win! The Mariners have a chance to do the previously considered unthinkable today, as Bryce Miller will try to secure a sweep of Shota Imanaga […]
Summer is winding down, with just about a week left in August. At RotoBaller HQ, we are back with more waiver wire advice to help managers make a push into the standings with our fantasy baseball waiver wire rankings for Week 22 (August 24 - August 30) of the 2026 MLB season. On Saturday, Mariners […]
The Cubs were in position to even their series against the Mariners at T-Mobile Park Saturday night after being walked off in the opener. Then a two-out rally in the bottom of the 9th erased their lead and handed them a shocking walk-off defeat. Randy Arozarena began what would be an epic game with a …
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SEATTLE — It was just six days ago that Pete Crow-Armstrong led off the game for the Cubs with a home run on the first pitch of the game and then hit another one for a walk-off win. Now the Cubs have seen it happen against them, courtesy of Mariners outfielder Randy Arozarena, who hit […]
Today’s Reflections What a winnable mess that was in Seattle Friday night. And Matthew Boyd created it. The lefthander allowed just six home runs in his first 12 games this season. In four August games, Boyd has allowed eight home runs in the last four starts, including two three-run and three two-run blasts. Boyd called […]
All-Star slugger Randy Arozarena orchestrated one of the most statistically unusual games in Mariners history Saturday, helping Seattle overcome the Chicago Cubs 5-4 at T-Mobile Park. The 31-year-old outfielder hit a leadoff home run on the first pitch he saw and later ended the game with a two-run walkoff blast. The two homers placed Arozarena […]
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Today was the much-anticipated debut of Mariners pitching prospect Kade Anderson, but it was a more familiar face who stole the show. Randy Arozarena bookended the game with a pair of homers, peppering in a dramatic home run robbery and a clutch infield single, to deliver the Mariners an improbable 5-4 win, meanwhile racking up […]
Randy Arozarena is one month removed from his epic Fourth of July Grand Slam over Toronto. He swung back to stardom on Saturday. This time walking off his Seattle Mariners against the Chicago Cubs. Arozarena pounded this ball over the center field fence, while facing the final out in sealing the 5-4 home win. THE […]
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Kade Anderson showed flashes of why he is MLB's top pitching prospect in his Saturday night debut for the Seattle Mariners.
Seattle Mariners fans were feeling much more optimistic after Friday’s hard-fought extra-innings victory over the Chicago Cubs, but that joy has quickly turned back into a familiar sense of dread. Brendan Donovan got hit in the head with a baseball in the batting cages before Saturday’s game and is currently being evaluated, per the M’s […]
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Go get ‘em, David.
This pitcher’s on fire, his heater enthralls, The batters complain about his wicked curveball But Kade he don’t care, you can talk to the wall, oh no no [DRUM FILL] In Arkansas they will see you no more, You’re in the bigs now, you beat down the door Double-A was too easy for you, you […]
SEATTLE — Saturday notes… Cubs lineup: Mariners lineup: David Peterson, LHP vs. Kade Anderson, LHP David Peterson returns to the Cubs rotation after a one-outing detour to the bullpen, in which he threw 1.1 scoreless innings Monday against the White Sox, throwing 22 pitches, so he should be well rested for today’s game. Overall since […]
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Last night’s game was another forgettable one, with the Cubs falling in extras despite hitting four home runs. The problem is that three of them were solo shots, though that wasn’t as big of a problem as the fact that Alex Bregman‘s dinger with Michael Busch on second base represented the team’s only hit in …
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On Friday, before the start of a three-game series with the Mariners in Seattle and amid a flurry of roster moves, the Chicago Cubs announced that pitcher Javier Assad had been optioned to Triple-A Iowa, again. More News: Chicago Cubs: Alex Bregman is the Bizarro Kyle Tucker Those who’ve lost track of the amount of [...]
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Kade Anderson is officially in the big leagues, as Thursday’s report of the star prospect’s impending promotion has given way to today’s announcement that the Mariners have selected Anderson’s contract. To create room on both the 26-man and 40-man rosters, Seattle designated left-hander Jhonathan Diaz for assignment. Diaz was himself selected to the Mariners’ active […]
The Seattle Mariners altered their weekend rotation after right-hander Bryan Woo developed discomfort in his throwing shoulder, but the club remains optimistic he will avoid the injured list. Woo first experienced the discomfort during last Sunday’s victory over the Houston Astros, when he allowed two runs across six innings. Seattle subsequently pushed back his scheduled […]
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If you were an outsider to Cubs/Mariners on Friday night, it was a thrilling back and forth game. The Mariners appear to be a team on the outside looking in, though they are within striking distance of a division title in a down year for the AL West. Despite that, this had that feel of […]
The Cubs traveled out west to begin a series against the Mariners on Friday night. It was a back-and-forth game, but the road team finally got to see how the other half lives as they suffered a walk-off loss in extra innings. Chicago came out of the gate on fire against Emerson Hancock in the …
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