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Match preview: Seattle Reign vs. Orlando Pride
The 2026 Seattle Reign season is finally here! On Sunday, March 15, the Reign travel to Florida to take on the Orlando Pride, the team that knocked them out of the playoffs last year. The match kicks off at 1 pm PT and will air on Victory+, a new free streaming partner of the NWSL. It will also be available on Fox 13+ and the FoxLocal app in the Seattle area.
Both teams made limited moves this offseason, betting instead that their young players can grow and thrive alongside their veterans, so the teams have a bit more familiarity with each other than might otherwise be the case for such an early season game.
“We know they like to play,” Laura Harvey told reporters in her pregame remarks. “I think out of all the teams you could play first game of the season, playing the team that you played at the end of the season is always interesting. But but more importantly than that, the fact that they’ve same coach, a lot of the same players means that it’s not like a brand new team where you’re just not quite sure what you’re going to get. I think we know what to expect from Orlando, which will be a really tough game. They’re very good on both sides of the ball. We’ve been able to prepare maybe a little bit more than we maybe could have done if it was a team that had a lot of change.”
Seattle faced some challenges traveling to this game, with lengthy delays at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport due to snow on Thursday delaying their flight for over four hours.
Head-to-Head
The Reign are 7-6-8 all-time against Orlando; that includes a 2-4-5 record on the road against the Pride.
Key departures
The Pride saw Carson Pickett and Ally Brazier (formerly Watt) head to expansion club Denver Summit. USWNT defender Emily Sams, who was the 2024 NWSL Defender of the Year, transferred to Angel City, while NWSL veteran Morgan Gautrat departed to play in England. Kylie Nadaner is also out on maternity leave.
Key additions
In the offseason, the Pride added 2025 NWSL Shield winner Hailie Mace from the Kansas City Current along with acquiring Chicago Stars defender Hannah Anderson via trade. Orlando also added TCU forward Seven Castain, Georgetown goalkeeper Cara Martin, Thorns defender Nicole Payne, and Florida State forward Solai Washington.
What to watch
The Reign press: Orlando has been one of the toughest defensive teams the last two years but will be rotating through several new and untested players on the backline. This could give the Reign a chance to press high and pressure Orlando’s defense onto mistakes. The Reign have indicated they want to be a team that puts opponents under pressure this year, a departure from their low block on 2025. Can the Reign set a new tone from the beginning?
Crosses: Last year, the Pride attempt the most crosses in the league and averaged the second most corner kicks. They liked to push their fullbacks high to overlap with wing players, or send balls over the top to their speedy wingers (the Pride led the league in completed long balls). The Reign will need to put pressure on the ball higher up the field to prevent those long balls, and on the wings to limit uncontested crosses into the box. On the other end, can the Reign get in more dangerous positions to cross this game?
Creating chances: The Reign have said they want to build on last year by continuing to be hard to break down while also creating more chances in the attack. The Reign created the fewest expected goals in the league in 2025, but did a good job converting the limited chances they had. Can the Reign keep the ball in their attacking half against Orlando and create more shots in dangerous positions? And who steps up to provide that service?
Who to watch
Barbra Banda: One of the reasons the Pride struggled at times last year was because they lost Banda to injury for the second half of the year. When healthy, she’s one of the hardest forwards to stop. She’s strong, hard to get off the ball, a great dribbler, and a lethal shooter. She knows how to sneak into dangerous spots on corner kicks, too.
Jacquie Ovalle: Before the summer window closed, the Pride added Mexican forward/midfielder Jacquie Ovalle, paying a world-record transfer fee for women’s soccer at $1.5 million. Ovalle is unpredictable and crafty on the ball, she loves pressure, and as she demonstrated in the final regular season game against the Reign, she can whip in a dangerous cross.
Jacquie Ovalle drops it in perfectly and Carson Pickett finishes with ease 💪
— NWSL (@nwslsoccer.com) 2025-11-02T23:59:18.099Z
Injury / Availability Report
Seattle Reign
OUT: Lynn Biyendolo (Maternity leave), Jordyn Bugg (Leg), Shae Holmes (Lower Leg), Sally Menti (Knee), Cassie Miller (Leg – SEI), Holly Ward (not due to injury)
Orlando Pride
OUT: Kerry Abello (Hip), Zara Chavoshi (Lower Leg), Marta (Excused Absence), Cosette Morche (Ankle – D45), Kylie Nadaner (Maternity Leave), Nicole Payne (Knee – SEI), Viviana Villacorta (Knee)
QUESTIONABLE: Angelina (Thigh)
How to watch
Seattle Reign kicks off against the Orlando Pride on Sunday, March 15. The game begins at 1 pm PT and will air on Victory+ nationally, and on Fox 13+ in the Seattle area.
CHICAGO (AP) — The struggling New York Mets placed former Seattle Mariners second baseman/designated hitter Jorge Polanco on the 10-day injured list on Saturday with a right wrist contusion.
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The move was made retroactive to Wednesday, a day after Polanco went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts in a 2-1 loss at the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 32-year-old Polanco is batting .179 (10 for 56) with a homer and two RBIs in his first season with New York, which has lost nine straight.
“When doctors first took a look at him, it looked like he got hit by a pitch when he didn’t,” manager Carlos Mendoza said. “In talking to him, it was just a couple of swings that he took that night. … He didn’t think much of it, but just got worse the following day.
“So you just got to let it calm down a little bit and then we’ll go from there. But we don’t have a timetable for how long this is going to last.”
Polanco, who signed a two-year, $40 million contract with the Mets in December, also has been dealing with an ankle issue.
“He was trending in the right direction,” Mendoza said of the ankle injury. “It’s definitely going to help, obviously now with him being shut down. But the biggest thing now is that we’ve got to take care of that wrist.”
Polanco spent the previous two seasons with the Mariners, who acquired him in a February 2024 trade with the Minnesota Twins.
Polanco struggled during his first season with Seattle in 2024, hitting just .213 with 16 homers in 118 games while playing through a knee injury that didn’t become public knowledge until after the season.
But after the Mariners somewhat surprisingly brought him back for a one-year contract in 2025, Polanco rebounded to hit .265 with 26 homers and an .821 OPS in 138 games last season. He then added three homers during Seattle’s playoff run, along with a 15th-inning walkoff single in Game 5 of the American League Division Series that sent the Mariners to their first ALCS in 24 years.
Seattle Sports staff made additions to this post.
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Brandon Nimmo hits leadoff homer, Jacob deGrom works 4 scoreless as Rangers beat Seattle Mariners 5-0
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – APRIL 17: Corey Seager #5 of the Texas Rangers tags out Dominic Canzone #8 of the Seattle Mariners during the fourth inning at T-Mobile Park on April 17, 2026 in Seattle, Washington. (Steph Chambers / Getty Images)
SEATTLE – Brandon Nimmo hit a leadoff home run, Jacob deGrom threw four shutout innings and Gavin Collyer earned his first career win as the Texas Rangers beat the Seattle Mariners 5-0 on Friday night.
Seattle lost its fourth straight game, and was shut out for the fourth time in 21 games, falling to 8-13. The Mariners were shut out six times during the 2025 season. Texas won its third straight game.
Nimmo led off the game with a 372-foot shot to right field off Mariners starter Logan Gilbert (1-3). It was Nimmo’s 16th career leadoff homer and second of the season. He also hit a leadoff home run on April 11 in a 6-3 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
DeGrom effectively maneuvered through Seattle’s lineup, and worked out of a one out, bases-loaded jam in the first inning. The two-time Cy Young Award winner recorded two of his three strikeouts after walking Josh Naylor to load the bases. Randy Arozarena fanned on a curveball, and Luke Raley swung through a fastball.
Texas added to its lead after Nimmo’s homer. Wyatt Langford’s single to left scored Corey Seager, who led off the third inning with a double. The Rangers stretched the lead to 3-0 on an RBI single from Jake Burger in the seventh.
The Mariners’ best scoring chance came in the sixth after Collyer (1-0), who worked 1 1/3 scoreless innings, left the game.
J.P. Crawford singled to left off Tyler Alexander with two out, and Mariners third base coach Carlos Cardoza sent Naylor from second base, but he was thrown out by Langford.
Texas added two more runs in the ninth on a sacrifice fly by Andrew McCutchen and an RBI double by Josh Jung.
Seattle third baseman Brendan Donovan left the game early due to a left hip issue.
Mariners right-hander Bryce Miller, who started the year on the injured list with a left oblique injury, was at T-Mobile Park for the first time this season. He will begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A Tacoma on Saturday.
Up next
Mariners RHP George Kirby (2-2, 3.25) will face Rangers righty Nathan Eovaldi (2-2, 5.40) on Saturday afternoon.
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FIFE, Wash. – A portion of southbound I-5 will be closed overnight in Fife Friday and Saturday night, according to WSDOT.
The Washington State Department of Transportation says the purpose of the closure is to install a new electronic sign and will need two nights to do it.
Crews will close southbound I-5 from 54th Avenue to Port of Tacoma Road starting at 11 p.m. Friday night until 7:30 a.m. Saturday morning. Closures will resume Saturday night starting at 11 p.m. as well, and lanes will reopen Sunday morning at 8:30 a.m.
WSDOT says the closure will include the 54th Avenue ramps to southbound I-5.
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