DETROIT – Yes, Julio Rodriguez said, he does feel more relaxed hitting further down in the Mariners’ lineup. He’s had to learn how to do that the hard way these past agonizing few weeks.

SEATTLE – If you didn’t see where the balls landed, you might say it was one of Julio Rodriguez’s better games of the season on Wednesday.

SEATTLE – They’ve tried changing up the messaging and the pregame routines. They’ve changed their personnel, bringing in different bench players to fill the margins. They’ve made minor tweaks to the lineup and batting order in recent weeks and made a major change before Wednesday’s game. Heck, they’ve even changed up their uniform choices in search of some consistent success.

SEATTLE — The smile on Tom Murphy’s face as he was handed the Mariners’ home run trident was one of pure delight. He’d been patiently waiting his turn to hold and hoist the weapon turned celebratory prop.

With the Major League Baseball All-Star Game just 64 days away and a week’s worth of festivities starting before that, MLB and the Seattle Mariners unveiled the first look at the Capital One All-Star Village via video featuring renderings of the area.

SEATTLE – For six brilliant innings, Logan Gilbert was as good as he’s ever been for the Mariners.

SEATTLE – The doubters found reasons to try and couch the success of Bryce Miller’s first big-league start, saying domination came against the abysmal Oakland A’s, who might be one of the worst teams in the last 30 years of Major League Baseball.

SEATTLE – They had been shut down and shut out for the first five innings by a 28-year-old rookie making his major league debut.

SEATTLE – The last time these two American League West rivals met at T-Mobile Park, they played 17 innings of scoreless baseball with both wearing normal, er, traditional uniforms and the Astros ending the Mariners’ magical 2022 season.

OAKLAND, Calif. – Bryce Miller delivered in his major league debut on Tuesday.

OAKLAND, Calif. – The distance from the visitors clubhouse to the visiting team’s batting cage at Oakland Coliseum has to be the longest such walk at any stadium in the major leagues.