Rookie Evan White doubled and homered in his first two at-bats and finished with a career-high six RBIs, Kyle Lewis added three more hits to his AL-leading total and the Seattle Mariners beat the Texas Rangers 10-1.

Rookie Kyle Lewis hit a solo home run, former waiver wire pickup Nick Margevicius matched his career high with seven strikeouts and the Seattle Mariners beat the Texas Rangers 7-4.

SEATTLE – Seattle Mariners manager Scott Servais on Thursday was asked to speak to the encouraging signs he finds amid a season in which progress is certainly not reflected in the win-loss record. In what was touted as a transitional growth year for Seattle, it’s a valid question – really, the only question.

SEATTLE – Clayton Kershaw struck out a season-high 11 in seven strong innings, Cody Bellinger homered for the second straight game and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Seattle Mariners 6-1 on Thursday.

SEATTLE – You’re probably not going to see a statue of Slade Gorton erected in Seattle. It is unlikely the man signed any autographs for children or adoring fans, either.

The Seattle Mariners have designated Daniel Vogelbach for assignment barely a year after he was an All-Star selection.

SEATTLE – Dee Gordon admits that the whole process has left him and other players involved “absolutely petrified.”

A night after combining for 20 runs on 26 hits with seven homers in a never-ending slowpitch-softball-like slugfest, the Dodgers and Mariners delivered quite the opposite with a more normal form of baseball on Tuesday afternoon in the finale of the two-game series at Dodger Stadium.

The level of information revealed and the complete willingness to do so was unexpected. Players rarely like to talk about things this serious, perhaps partially out of the fear that public acknowledgment might somehow make what they’re experiencing worse.

It’s the small moments that these Seattle Mariners, in the middle of this trying and turbulent rebuilding process, will have to relish.

Spyder Webb, the now retired trainer of the Bellingham Mariners and Everett AquaSox whose name adorns the visiting clubhouse at Avista Stadium, used to affectionately refer to the short-season, Class A Northwest League as "Z-ball."