SEATTLE – At first glance, that loss looked like a microcosm of all that has gone well and all that has gone poorly for the Mariners in the first half of the season.

Skylar Diggins-Smith took a hard fall in the second quarter after absorbing a charge from Atlanta Dream All-Star Allisha Gray, and while she got back on her feet, she soon went to the locker room under her own power and did not return due to an ankle injury.

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Since the early days of the season, when it became noticeable that they weren’t using the long-held number of 100 pitches as a pull or push decider for their starting pitchers, the Mariners have made it clear that it was part of their strategy to maintain the long-term health of their rotation – the obvious strength of the team.

ANAHEIM, Calif. – The Mariners couldn’t get off to a much better start on Saturday night.

In the days leading up to the 2021 MLB draft, Trent Blank was emphatic: The Mariners need to draft Bryan Woo.

Wrangling over stadium financing would continue on for years, but the dream of a new outdoor ballpark in Seattle finally felt real on March 8, 1997, when Ken Griffey Jr. flew in from spring training in Arizona and dug in for the first time at the site of the Mariners’ future home.

ANAHEIM, Calf. – For essentially six innings, the Mariners bullpen had done everything possible to give their teammates a chance pick up a second win in this four-game series.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — When asked about pitching in the All-Star Game, Andres Muñoz spoke about it as a dreamy far-off place nowhere close to where he was now — a fantasyland for baseball’s elite — that he hoped to visit one day despite having a season worthy of selection.

The Kingdome officially was the home to 1,755 Mariners games, 303 Sonics games, 184 Seahawks games, three seasons of the Sounders, three Final Fours and one of the most famous concerts ever — that of Paul McCartney in June 1976 with his new band Wings, during what was his first and only American tour in the decade following the breakup of the Beatles. But mostly, it was the home of Ken Griffey Jr.

Raleigh homers twice as team scores season-high 11 runs

SAN DIEGO – For a brief moment, it looked like the Mariners’ monthlong quest to win a series would continue into extra innings or possibly into the upcoming series in Anaheim, California.