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morning everyone and happy Saturday!
The Mariners bats struggled to get going last night against the Red Sox, with left-hander Ranger Suárez tossing six no-hit innings in a 6-2 M’s loss. The squad will try to get back into the win column tonight against young lefty Connelly Early.
It’s looking like a sunny Father’s Day weekend in Seattle. What plans do you have on tap for the next couple of days?
In Mariners news…
- Some Australians in town for the FIFA World Cup have found their way to Mariners baseball fandom.
- Jessica Roberts at the Everett Post-Intelligencer broke down Andrés Muñoz’s fastball issues this season.
- Over on The Feed, Kate Preusser shared some quotes from Perry Hill regarding Brendan Donovan’s defensive work.
- If you’re in the Pittsburgh area, LL commenter BlackbirdFly is organizing a reader meet-up for next week’s series!
Around the league…
- The United States Department of Justice has opened an investigation into Major League Baseball after the league issued a warning to a handful of Giants players for altering their hats on Pride Night.
- Tigers right-hander Justin Verlander is excepted to miss several weeks with a hamstring strain.
- Jarred Kelenic has been called up by the Rangers.
- Bradford William Davis found that Rick Burnham, the man responsible for MLB’s probes into player misconduct, has himself had almost a dozen misconduct allegations brought against him during his time with the NYPD.
- Now that we are almost halfway into our first season with the ABS challenge system, Matt Martell at Fangraphs took a look at how teams are strategizing when to use their valuable challenges.
- After an injury-plagued first month of the season, Brewers youngster Jackson Chourio is having his star turn, writes Jay Jaffe at Fangraphs.
- Eno Sarris at The Athletic updated his starting pitcher rankings for the rest of the season. ($)
