The Mariners split the opening series with Cleveland, a good team, and this is what stands out to me: Cleveland had to fight for its two wins, which were by the scores of 6-4 and 6-5 (in extras). The Mariners rolled to their two wins, 5-1 and 8-0. Bodes well.

Cal and Naylor in particular are scuffling, and the thing is it's not killing the Mariners' lineup. This is what a deep lineup does. Not everybody is going to be going at all times, but it keeps your offense from completely stalling when one part of the lineup or another is fighting through it.

Emerson Hancock and Leo Rivas today, as we all expected.

Three singles! Absolute sorcery!

Bryan Woo good (still)

Even when the Mariners finally singled, it was essentially turned into a double because you can't stop Big Dumper from stealing second.

A catcher hit 60 home runs? Who cares, that man just hit the first single in the history of time!

Folks, we've got a 10th hit that's not a single.

It's taken just two games for the #Mariners to achieve a wild stat that hasn't happened in more than a century, if ever. sports.mynorthwest.com/mlb/seattle-...

Amazing. Baseball finally gets it.

The Seattle Mariners have played 18 innings this season. They have nine runs on nine hits -- six home runs, a triple, and two doubles. Zero. Singles. Baseball rocks so hard.

The Angels might be a problem this season. Wait. No. That doesn't sound right.

Kinda maybe actually serious about the third one (?)

Nasty combo in the back of the Cleveland bullpen: Edmonton's Erik Sabrowski and Abbotsford, B.C.'s Cade Smith. Canadian baseball is legit. 🍁

OK so what if Dom Canzone hits a whole bunch of homers

The four Mariners All-Star hitters who were in the WBC didn't look great in the WBC, but Randy did have a promising end to the spring.

Mariners are a lefty-hitter solo homer to right field or nothing kinda team

The ABS introduces a game show element to baseball. Real press your luck kinda deal. Makes for fun reactions.

Get an espresso machine for Dom Canzone homer celebrations. Or, like, at least send Garver on a run up to the Starbucks stand for him.

Mariners better

Ball will find you, Brendan Donovan first defensive batter of his Mariners career edition

Cob Bostas

Two close March Madness games, baseball opening day and chippy late-season hockey. Elite channel surfing right now.

The Seattle Kraken and Tampa Bay Lightning do not seem to like each other. This opinion is based on the fact that they keep trying to punch each other.

Now That's What I Call Mariners Opening Day Weather

Netflix ran a highlight reel of Rob Manfred as they went to break before he comes into the announce booth. He's in the cornfield! He's at the Hall of Fame! He's at some other game! A great example of a thing you really don't need to do on a game broadcast. Seriously, they had somebody make *that*

José Caballero in the history books for the first official ABS challenge in MLB history. How can you not be romantic about baseball?

My advice to TV networks trying to dress up intros to sports games: Do less. And then do even less than that.

Netflix any time it gets a big new sports thing

It is just about go-time for a #Mariners season that comes with high expectations. Insider @shannondrayer.bsky.social breaks down the state of the team ahead of opening day. sports.mynorthwest.com/mlb/seattle-...

Disappointing Gonzaga season. Never figured it out after Braden Huff's injury. Graham Ike was an all-time great Zag. Hate to see him go out like that. As always, go Zags.

Graham Ike is running on fumes and still making buckets. Twice either came up short or just barely had enough hops for a dunk.

MARCH IS THIS

Well when you put all of the top Mariners prospects together, apparently it makes for a really impressive squad. Who knew?

Anacortes kid was big for the Zags. Davis Fogle is a dawg.

Yeah I guess I don't understand how they rule fouls on offensive elbows because nothing about what Graham Ike did seemed like his fault to me.

The start to Gonzaga-Kennesaw State has been ugly basketball.

Now That's What I Call One Week To Mariners Opening Day Weather

Luke Raley since this article: 2 for 2, HR, 2B, BB, 2R, 4RBI Now .316 BA and 1.041 OPS this spring.

Eugenio Suárez is the best of us.

Venezuelan baseball rules

HIS NAME IS EUGENIOOOOOOOOOO

Eduard Bazardo was my Endy Chávez Award winner last season as the unassuming Mariners player who continually came up clutch, just beating Leo Rivas. Fitting as they're all Venezuelan.

Zardo time

A truly beautiful thing about baseball is that the exact worth of a good thing a player does offensively is determined by what their teammates do before or after them.

The contrast of the players during their respective anthems was just perfect for the discourse. No notes.

Dave Cameron, who taught #Mariners fans about analytics at USS Mariner, now helps shape the M's roster. And in fact, he and another former "blogfather" were instrumental in completing Seattle's Brendan Donovan trade. @shannondrayer.bsky.social has the story. sports.mynorthwest.com/mlb/seattle-...

Was thinking of how Italy, being primarily Americans, could be the USA B team in the WBC, except they beat USA. This thought was inspired by my 8th grade AAU team's drama. We split up based on parent allegiance, but the other team filed for tournaments as Ephrata 1 so we called ourselves Ephrata A.

BOR-ING