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HOUSTON — The Mariners, finally, had things lined up just as they wanted, just as they needed.

HOUSTON — Instead of a return trip to Triple-A Tacoma, Colt Emerson has instead landed on the injured list with a left wrist injury that, it turns out, has bothered him more than he has let on this season.

The Mariners have managed to burrow below rock bottom. It’s remarkable, really.

NEW YORK – As the postgame victory music blared – something that hasn’t been played in over a week – the Mariners quickly packed up and prepared for a bus ride to the airport and an evening flight to Houston for the most important series of the season.

NEW YORK – On an afternoon when the Mariners needed to feel something other than defeat, they turned to the leader of the pitching staff and the man they handed the ball to on opening day.

NEW YORK – Roughly 24 hours earlier, the Mariners felt the effects of not being able to use lefty Gabe Speier to pitch in a leverage situation.

The Mariners are eight games under .500, with a five-game losing streak, a daunting upcoming schedule and the fewest runs scored in the majors. Catcher Cal Raleigh feels responsible, and he unburdened himself on Tuesday night.

NEW YORK – It’s not that Michael Rucker was in the game, though he hasn’t had the best success in higher-leverage situations this season.

It was an odd juxtaposition Saturday night. On one hand, you had perhaps the most ambitious ceremony in Mariners history — when the team brought together nearly all of the organization's Top 50 all-time players for a pregame celebration. It was joyous, with the likes of Ken Griffey Jr., Randy Johnson, Ichiro, Edgar Martínez — and even A-Rod — getting boisterous ovations. But against the ...

NEW YORK – Following a long postgame flight that got them into Manhattan in the early morning hours, the Mariners started this seminal road trip with a day off Monday.

As the Mariners quietly packed up their gear and readied for a flight to New York to start a nine-game road trip, you could almost picture Simon and Garfunkel on stage in Central Park serenely singing: “Hello, darkness , my old friend. I’ve come to talk with you again.”

A weekend designed to highlight some of the franchise’s best over the past 50 years instead served to illuminate one of the worst stretches of offense in Mariners history.

It seems like a bad miss when the all-time franchise leader in pitching appearances isn’t included on the list of Top 50 players team history. But when the M’s unveiled their Top 50 players during Saturday night’s ceremony, the name of relief pitcher Jeff Nelson was missing. It was clearly the biggest snub of any players that were left out of the celebration. Anytime there is a top whatever ...

His number is never going to be retired at T-Mobile Park. No statue in his likeness is on the horizon. But Saturday, Alex Rodriguez received a gift from Mariners fans that might mean just as much to him these days: their appreciation. 

Eight players from the 2026 roster were among the 50 all-time great players featured on the Mariners’ 50th season team unveiled Saturday evening during a nostalgic ceremony at T-Mobile Park.

All the frustration built up from a season gone awry, all the anger about the failures to get hits, score runs and win games, all the disappointment of the current status of the Seattle Mariners came to a tipping point.

Jamie Moyer knows more than pretty much anyone about winning. The crafty left-hander compiled 269 wins over his 25-year MLB career and is second only to Félix Hernández in Mariners history with 145 over his 11-year career with Seattle.

When you're standing in the shadows of the Baseball Hall of Fame, on the veranda of the Otesaga Hotel in Cooperstown, N.Y., the gentle breeze of the sport's history wafts over you. In that spirit, at a cocktail party there a couple of weeks ago, I asked Tim Hevly, the Seattle Mariners' longtime vice president of communications, about the team's 50th season celebration.

The setup for success was in place even hours before Friday night’s first pitch at T-Mobile Park.