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Padres pitcher and Seattle native Blake Snell to raise 12th Man Flag

Padres pitcher and Seattle native Blake Snell to raise 12th Man Flag

Thanksgiving may be synonymous with football, but for a moment there will be some love given to baseball. For the Seattle Seahawks’ Thursday Night Football showdown, San Diego Padres star pitcher – and Seattle native – Blake Snell will be raising the iconic 12th Man Flag in the south end zone.

Blake Snell, the former Shorewood High School Stormray, is coming off his second Cy Young caliber season. In 2023, Snell was a rare bright spot for the disappointing Padres. Snell helped guide San Diego to a 14-9 record in his starts and had an MLB-best 2.25 ERA. He has now won a Cy Young in both the American League and the National League.

Of course, Snell’s presense will surely have fans wondering about the team who plays just south of Lumen Field. Snell is currently a free agent, and while the Mariners aren’t thought to be in the market for starting pitching depth, bringing him home to Seattle would go a long way to repairing the damaged goodwill between the organization and its beleaguered fans.

Should Snell be announced as a surprise signing before the game, it would most assuredly warrant quite the roar from the 12th Man.

A man can dream, can’t he?

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George Kirby honored the late Tim Wakefield with the nastiest of knuckleballs

A perfect tribute.

Tim Wakefield, the incredible knuckleball pitcher who won a pair of World Series rings with the Boston Red Sox, died at the age of 57 from brain cancer.

Tributes came in from all over the MLB world and that included one on the mound Sunday.

George Kirby threw his first and only knuckleball of his Major League career while pitching for the Seattle Mariners, and if you’re wondering: It was for sure a tribute to Wakefield, and a pitch that Corey Seager swung and missed at.

“I loved watching that guy throw, even though he’s a Red Sox player and I’m a born Yankee fan,” Kirby said, via MLB.com. “But yeah, it was a great day to throw it and I’m glad Seager missed it and didn’t take it deep. So, yeah that was fun.”

Check it out:

George Kirby bizarrely got hit by a ball thrown from the stands while on the mound

This was scary.

Thank goodness George Kirby was OK.

Because this could have been much, much worse for the Seattle Mariners pitcher.

On Tuesday, Kirby was on the mound and perhaps calling for another ball to throw from umpires, when something came out of nowhere and hit him in his abdomen. It turned out it was … another baseball? Thrown by someone in the crowd? And this was at T-Mobile Park, the Mariners’ own stadium.

Who would do something like that?

Like I said, it could have been so much worse and injured Kirby. Thank goodness he wasn’t hit in the face.

Here’s the video:

And here’s the thrower getting escorted out:

Seahawks on top of NFC in these baseball season style standings

A fun way to see how many wins the Seahawks actually stack up over the years

As much as I genuinely enjoy covering the Seattle Seahawks and the NFL as a whole, I am also a huge baseball fan. Any opportunity I have to connect the world of baseball into this publication, I can’t help but jump at the opportunity, and this was far too good to pass up.

In a fun hypothetical, Twitter user Jay Cuda – who is known for sharing interesting maps and graphs of baseball teams – decided to map out NFL standings if they played 162 regular season games like the MLB does. Taking a look at the NFC west, the 12th Man will surely be thrilled to see the results.

The Seattle Seahawks have been one of the winningest teams in the league under Pete Carroll, and it’s great to see a graphic which shows it. Not only are they on top, none of their division rivals even come close. Should this be an actual MLB season, Seattle would be the No. 1 seed in their conference, er, I mean league.

It would be the first time a Seattle team baseball team has been No. 1 in their division since 2001… something the Mariners are trying to accomplish themselves at the moment. There are nine games left in the regular season, and they have to survive a murderer’s row of both the Rangers and Astros.

Speaking of the 2001 Mariners, the Kansas City Chiefs would actually tie their record of 116 regular season wins, based on this graph.

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Watch: Former Ohio State baseball star Dominic Canzone makes highlight catch

Good enough to make the evenings top plays? #GoBucks

[autotag]Dominic Canzone[/autotag] is making [autotag]Ohio State baseball[/autotag] fans extremely proud of his recent MLB success.

The Cleveland native starred for the Buckeyes from 2017-2019 before being drafted by the [autotag]Arizona Diamondbacks[/autotag]. Canzone made his major league debut earlier this year for the club that drafted him, but was sent to the [autotag]Seattle Mariners[/autotag] during a trade deadline deal.

The move opened up more playing time for him, and Canzone has made the most of it, especially on defense. Thursday night against the Tampa Bay Rays, the left fielder made a highlight reel catch, running into the wall, falling into the stands and holding on for the out. Watch for yourself below.

Although Canzone has struggled at the plate, hitting just .231 on the season, he’s making much more of an impact than the stats would show.

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Mariners LHP Tayler Saucedo takes snaps at QB for Seahawks

Perhaps the Maple Valley native wants Pete Carroll to reconsider the depth chart.

…well, not exactly. The Seattle Mariners are gearing up to take on their division rivals, the Oakland Athletics, this afternoon for a series finale. But during the pregame warm ups, left handed pitcher Tayler Saucedo decided to use his arm talents in a different way.

The Seattle Seahawks have concluded the preseason and have their 53 man roster set, but perhaps the Maple Valley native wants to make the case Pete Carroll should reconsider the quarterback position.

As impressive as Saucedo looks in his “tryout,” I believe the Seahawks feel confident about rolling with Geno Smith and Drew Lock. Besides, the Mariners are in much more need of Saucedo’s services, where he is having a solid year coming out of the bullpen.

This video is another fun example of the camaraderie shared between Seattle’s sports teams – such as Richard Sherman throwing out the first pitch to “kick off” this current homestand.

The Mariners have first pitch this afternoon at 1:10 pm, where they will look to cap off their fifth-straight series win. They will need it to keep pace with the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros, who share 1st place in the AL West with Seattle.

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Richard Sherman throws first pitch at Mariners game, surprised by Ken Griffey Jr.

Football is around the corner, but the Mariners are making the case for fans to stay invested in baseball season.

Football may be around the corner, but the Seahawks’ neighbors directly to the south – the Mariners – are making quite the case for fans to stay invested in baseball season.

The Mariners have been on an absolute tear lately, and were returning home after a successful 8-2 road trip to a raucous crowd at T-Mobile Park. There to greet them was former Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman, but he was not the only Seattle legend during the pregame festivities.

After being behind 10 games, the Mariners now own a share of first place in the AL West. It is the latest in the season the Mariners have been in this position since August of 2003. They have won 18 of their last 21, including Friday night’s game 7-5 against the Kansas City Royals.

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MLB fans mocked the White Sox after Luis Castillo shut them down with 47 straight fastballs

No respect for the White Sox at all.

There arguably isn’t a more difficult task in all of professional sports than hitting big-league pitching. In today’s MLB, batters are facing pitchers who throw around triple digits with intense movement and devastating breaking balls. It seems impossible.

But that task becomes demonstrably easier when you know what pitch is coming. After all, it’s why MLB had a whole scandal about sign stealing.

That’s what made Luis Castillo’s Monday night outing so remarkably embarrassing for the Chicago White Sox hitters. Castillo decided that he was going to completely abandon his breaking pitches (slider and changeup) and only throw fastballs from the fourth inning on.

And guess what? It worked!

Castillo threw 47 straight fastballs against the White Sox. From the fourth inning through the seventh inning, the White Sox only managed two hits and no runs despite almost certainly picking up on the trend. They knew a fastball was coming, and they simply could not make Castillo pay for it.

Castillo ended up striking out nine hitters in seven innings and allowed five hits.

The glorified bullpen session turned into a 14-2 White Sox loss, and fans roasted the White Sox for getting shut down by 47 straight fastballs.

Julio Rodriguez fooled an entire stadium of fans by faking like he didn’t rob Fernando Tatis Jr. of a HR

He fooled fans, the broadcast, Tatis Jr. himself … everyone!

Oh, Julio Rodriguez. You got us all.

We’ve seen baseball players fake that they did rob a player of a home run. But the young Seattle Mariners star did the opposite: When Fernando Tatis Jr. hit a ball to straightaway center, it nearly went over the wall. J-Rod caught it … but he didn’t reveal it right away.

No, he just started walking away like it went beyond his glove. And then he revealed it with a smirk and a celebration.

I LOVE THIS. I’ve seen a few tweets remaking that it was taunting, but whatever! Baseball should be fun!

Everyone from fans to the booth was fooled:

Former Georgia baseball pitcher called up to MLB

The Seattle Mariners have moved up a former Georgia Bulldogs baseball pitcher to the MLB.

According to multiple sources, former Georgia Bulldogs baseball pitcher Emerson Hancock is moving up to the MLB with the Seattle Mariners. The Mariners selected Hancock with the No. 6 pick in the 2020 MLB draft.

The 6-foot-4, 213-pound pitcher went to Cairo High School in Cairo, Georgia. Hancock has a 3.99 ERA over 44 starts in three seasons with AA baseball. Hancock has a 21-10 record over his minor league career.

The Seattle Mariners are 60-52 and are looking to make a push for the postseason. It is unclear what Hancock’s role will be in the MLB.

Hancock finished his college career at Georgia with a record of 16-7 and a career 3.47 ERA across 33 total appearances, which were all starts.

Former Georgia pitcher Emerson Hancock is expected to get a shot to throw in the MLB with Seattle. (Photo by Kristin M. Bradshaw)

Hancock has been pitching well in AA baseball. He impressed scouts enough with his performances with the Arkansas Travelers to earn a call up to the MLB.

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