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Seattle Mariners Update: No Ford yet as Garver says he’s fine
The Seattle Mariners have released their lineup for Friday’s series opener in Texas, and even though it doesn’t feature Mitch Garver, it does appear to be good news about his status.
That also means that if you were hoping to see prospect Harry Ford get the call up to the big league, you may still be waiting.
M’s may be readying to call up prospect Harry Ford with Garver hurt
Cal Raleigh is catching a day after his half-day off was interrupted, as Garver exited a loss in Minnesota due to a jaw injury after taking a foul ball off his catcher’s mask. That forced the M’s to lose their designated hitter by putting Raleigh, who was the starting DH, behind the plate for the remainder of the game.
Though Garver isn’t playing, it sounds like he will avoid the injured list.
Mariners insider Shannon Drayer of Seattle Sports reported Friday that Garver had a jammed jaw but that the swelling has gone down, so he is “good to go.”
Garver said he is fine. Was dealing with a jammed jaw. CT clean. Bite back to normal after the swelling went down. Good to go.
— Shannon Drayer (@shannondrayer) June 27, 2025
With Raleigh catching again Friday after being behind the plate in each of Seattle’s last four games, it appears the M’s are confident Garver will be able to catch sometime this weekend to get Raleigh a breather.
Ford, a 22-year-old catcher currently on the Triple-A Tacoma Rainiers roster, was removed from Tacoma’s lineup shortly before its game Thursday to join the Mariners’ taxi squad, keeping him close in case Garver needed to go on the IL. A first-round pick in the 2021 MLB Draft and the No. 60 overall prospect in baseball per MLB.com, Ford is hitting .311 with eight home runs, a .426 on-base percentage and .895 OPS in 60 games with the Rainiers this year.
Here’s the full Mariners lineup for Friday’s game against the Rangers:
Walter gets the start tonight in Texas 🤠 pic.twitter.com/GF4tBuZG3e
— Seattle Mariners (@Mariners) June 27, 2025
It’s a marquee pitching matchup Friday with 2024 All-Star and Mariners opening day starter Logan Gilbert being matched up against Rangers standout Nathan Eovaldi, who has a 1.56 ERA and 0.81 WHIP in 12 starts this season. It will be Eovaldi’s first game back from a stint on the IL for right posterior elbow inflammation.
Texas (40-41) has won four of its last six games and is eight games back of AL West-leading Houston (48-33).
The Mariners (41-39) have won eight of their last 13 games but are looking to shake off back-to-back losses at Minnesota, where they split a four-game series. Seattle is 6 1/2 games back of Houston in the division but sits in the third and final wild card spot in the American League.
Friday’s game is set for a 5:05 p.m. start, with radio coverage on Seattle Sports set to begin at 4 with the pregame show.
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Quentin Mosby apparently has decided he’s better off playing his high school basketball on the shores of the Gulf Coast rather than just up the street from Lake Washington.
At IMG Academy, rather than the Lakeside School.
In South Florida, rather than North Seattle.
On Thursday, multiple basketball websites reported the 6-foot-2 Mosby, after two years at academic-minded Lakeside, will transfer and play his final two seasons at sports-centric IMG in the coastal community of Bradenton.
It appears Mosby simply needed a step up in basketball competition after averaging 30.4 points per game for Lakeside as a sophomore and continuing his high-scoring ways with Seattle Select on the Under Armour All-Star circuit this summer at a 24.5 clip.
The forseeable drawback to this arrangement is the University of Washington basketball program, which made him a scholarship offer last month, will now have to conduct a long-distance courtship of this savvy player rather than just head to a local gym.
NEWS: 2028 4⭐ Quentin Mosby will transfer to IMG Academy (FL) for his junior season of high school, sources told @LeagueRDY.
Mosby currently leads the UAA U17 in scoring and has picked up offers from Utah, Georgia Tech, Washington and Stanford amongst others.
A major stock… pic.twitter.com/3v7rjB1ZnX
— Sam Kayser (@KayserHoops) July 2, 2026
Mosby is clearly a mature player with the ball in his hands, able to go to the hoop with authority as well drain 3-pointers from around the perimeter.
Yet he largely was a one-man show at a school that counts its most famous alums as Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Batman actor Adam West, McCaw Cellular founder Craig McCaw, Washington Governor Booth Gardner, Space Needle owner David Skinner and Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Corbin Carroll.
Typical of his dominance in the 3A Metro League, Mosby came up with a 40-point, 10-assist performance in Lakeside’s 83-77 overtime victory over Franklin this past January.
His father Dre Mosby reportedly played for Spokane’s John Rogers High School and led the Greater Spokane League in scoring at 20-plus points per game in 1997 after moving with family members from Southern California. He’s now a Seattle gym owner and a fitness trainer.
So good at such a young age, this young Mosby just keeps getting more offensive-minded, showing no reluctance at all to take on older players. He holds offers from Georgia Tech, Stanford, Seattle University, Utah and Weber State, with others such as Gonzaga making contact.
So now, if all goes as planned, it’s on to Florida to see where that will take his game and then whether he’ll come back to play his college basketball in his hometown.
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COUNTDOWN: Two days until West Seattle Fourth of July Kids’ Parade! Here’s the newest info
Just two days until hundreds of West Seattle’s youngest residents will parade through the streets of North Admiral with their families, as the Admiral Neighborhood Association again presents the West Seattle Fourth of July Kids’ Parade. We’ve checked in with parade coordinators for the newest info:
>Gina Topp (SPS School Board President, Admiral resident, and owner of Mission Cantina) will kick off the parade.
–Kavya Bhatkar (age 10), a School of Rock student, will sing the anthem.
-Title sponsors for the parade are: Neighborhood Naturopathic and Primary Care and Holy Rosary.
-Food available for purchase including:
Seattle Pops
West Seattle Grounds
Where Ya at Matt
Empanadas El Pachi
La La Lemonade
Seattle Sorbet
Hawk Dogs
Sugar & Spoon
The parade starts at 10 am Saturday from 45th SW and SW Sunset, heads west on Sunset for a bit, turns south and then east, ending at Hamilton Viewpoint Park for a post-parade celebration with sack races, activity booths, the aforementioned food/treat vendors, and if they’re not called away to an emergency, an SFD truck to see. No RSVP or registration required to be in the parade – just show up (non-motorized bikes, trikes, scooters, strollers, etc., welcome, or just walk).
(2024 reader photo of fireworks damage on Nino Cantu SW Athletic Complex turf)
Here’s the annual announcement from Seattle Parks – we’ve excised the non-local parks:
Seattle Parks and Recreation will turn on field lighting on ballfields throughout the city on the evening of Friday, July 3 and Saturday, July 4 to protect the surfaces. The ballfield lights will be turned on at approximately 9 PM.
The lights will be turned on to discourage the use of fireworks. Fireworks are illegal in the city of Seattle and will destroy the artificial turf on the fields or surrounding facilities. The approximate replacement cost for the synthetic surface based on per average full-size field (110,000 square feet) is $1.2 million. All the fields have been renovated in the past several years and benefit field users including soccer, football, baseball, ultimate frisbee and lacrosse.
The fields will be monitored from 9 PM to 3 AM
Lights at the following synthetic fields will be turned off at 3 AM on July 3 and 4:
Delridge Playfield, 4458 Delridge Way SW
Hiawatha Playfield, 2700 California Ave. SW
South Park Playfield, 8319 8th Ave S
Walt Hundley Playfield, 6920 34th Avenue SWLights will be turned off at the following grass fields at 11 PM on July 3 and 4:
West Seattle Stadium, 4432 35th Ave. SW
Comparing this to last year’s announcement, the lights will be on longer the night before the 4th, and the “monitoring” will be an hour later.
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