The Mariners are back on the field tonight with a three-game series against the Rangers, and after yesterday’s off day, Sunday’s 2-0 win gets one more day in the sun. First pitch is set for 6:40pm Pacific time.
There’s also some injury news worth watching on the Mariners side. Brendan Donovan spoke candidly with Daniel Kramer about the concussion he suffered on August 22nd, and with only eighteen games left in the regular season, he still isn’t ruling out a return.
Elsewhere in the organization’s orbit, Kate took a close look at Cal Raleigh’s scorching stretch at the plate, which lines up neatly with his new walk-up song, Iron Maiden’s “The Trooper”.
Around the league, Aaron Judge is back. After more than three months on the injured list, the Yankees star has returned to action, and New York is giving him a gentler reentry with a six-game homestand against the Rockies and Mets.
Kristian Campbell’s story has taken a much different turn. Once viewed as a consensus top-ten prospect in baseball and fresh off an eight-year, $60 million extension only eight games into his big league career, he’s been stuck in Triple-A since June 2025. Julian McWilliams at CBS Sports dug into the role Driveline Baseball played in Campbell’s rapid rise through the minors, and what it means when that kind of development path stops producing the same results.
There was also a change of course for Tigers general manager Jeff Greenberg. He had been mentioned as a candidate for the Detroit Red Wings GM opening last month, but that door is now shut after it was relayed that he has withdrawn his candidacy.
For pitching fans, a new toy has arrived. The source didn’t go deep on it, but the tease was clear enough to get attention.
On the women’s side of the game, Joelle Milholm at Kick the Concrete examined the first season of the Women’s Pro Baseball League and traced the history that helped lead to it, including the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and the Colorado Silver Bullets, where Angie Mentink once played.
And in the minors, Thomas Pannone carved out a rare piece of history. The 32-year-old left-hander threw the first perfect game in the Minor Leagues since 2017, leading the Nashville Sounds to a 3-0 win over Triple-A Durham. Pannone has been in pro ball since 2013, has passed through seven organizations, spent time with the Kia Tigers in Korea in 2023, and has logged just 121.2 big league innings.
In Other News...
Mariners Collapse Has Made One Lineup Fix Impossible To Ignore
The Mariners slide has made the next offseason conversation feel a lot less optional than it did a few months ago. At 10 games below .500 and nearing mathematical elimination, Seattles problems have gone well beyond a temporary slump, with the offense sinking to the bottom of MLB in runs scored and several key bats backing up instead of carrying the lineup.
For a front office that entered the year hoping internal growth would be enough, the collapse has turned lineup help into the most obvious fix on the board. Seattle is expected to spend the winter looking hard at ways to lift the offense, whether that means chasing a name like Randy Arozarena in free agency or weighing trade possibilities, because the current group has simply not produced enough to keep the season from unraveling. [Read more 🡒]
Michael Arroyo Just Made Seattles Long Term Question More Urgent
Michael Arroyos promotion brought one of the Mariners most interesting long-term bats into the spotlight, and it arrived at a time when the organization is already sorting through what its next core will look like. The third-ranked prospect in Seattles farm system has earned a reputation as a strong hitter, and his major league debut gives the club a closer look at how ready he might be to help shape the lineup beyond this season.
The catch, of course, is where he fits defensively. Arroyo has mostly played left field, but that spot has not been a clean answer because of his limitations there, and Seattle is still weighing whether he can become part of the future in that role. The timing matters because Randy Arozarena is nearing free agency, which makes the Mariners left-field plan even more urgent as they decide whether Arroyo is a solution, a stopgap, or something in between. [Read more 🡒]
Mariners Fans Have Every Right To Be Furious This Week
The Mariners open their series against the Rangers on Tuesday night, and even in a season that has drifted out of the playoff picture, the game still matters to fans who have made a habit of showing up and following along. What has them frustrated this week is the timing around it all, with the Seahawks also on the schedule in a way that creates a familiar Seattle sports headache for anyone trying to keep one eye on baseball and the other on the NFL.
At the center of the annoyance is a Wednesday conflict that feels avoidable and, to many Mariners fans, like another example of the NFL taking up the most convenient space without much concern for the baseball crowd already committed to its own plan. The result is not just an inconvenient night for anyone trying to attend both, but a reminder that even late in the season, the Mariners can still get squeezed by a citywide schedule that does not always seem designed with them in mind. [Read more 🡒]