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Mariners Use Improbable Rally to Stun Yankees; Here’s How it Happened
The Seattle Mariners beat the New York Yankees on Monday night at Yankee Stadium, 5-4. It was the most improbable win of the season for the M’s, who trailed 4-1 in the top of the ninth inning. The win moves the Mariners to 26-22 while the loss halts the seven-game win streak for the Yankees. As we do after every game, here’s a look at how it happened:
 This one is a lesson in “it ain’t over, ’til it’s over.” The Mariners slept walk through the first seven innings, getting nothing going against starter Marcus Stroman. They finally scored against him in the eighth inning when Dom Canzone connected for a home run and ended his night. That made the deficit 3-1, which the Yankees pushed to 4-1 heading into the ninth, which set the stage for the dramatic comeback.
Amazingly enough, after getting Stroman for just three hits in 7.1 innings, the M’s scored four runs off Yankees’ closer Clay Holmes in the ninth, who entered the game with an ERA of 0.00.
Credit to the Mariners’ pitching staff, which turned multiple double plays that kept the team in the game. With the bases loaded in the fourth, Logan Gilbert got Jon Berti to hit into an inning-ending double play. Eduard Bazardo did the same thing in the seventh inning, getting Giancarlo Stanton to hit into the twin-killing.
In the ninth, all the drama started with one out. Julio Rodriguez hit an infield single and Cal Raleigh walked. Luke Raley hit an infield single and Rodriguez scored on a throwing error. Raley and Raleigh each moved up a base.
Then, Mitch Haniger hit a single to bring in a run to make it 4-3 and Canzone tied it with a sac fly. Ty France ultimately had the game-winning RBI with a single to right.
The Mariners’ social media team chronicled it all HERE:
Then, in the bottom of the ninth, closer Andres Munoz struck out Aaron Judge on a 101 MPH fastball with one out and one on. He got Alex Verdugo to ground to first to end the game.
Rodriguez went 1-for-4 to extend his hitting streak to eight games….Munoz got his ninth save and lowered his ERA to 1.77…. Raley went 3-for-4 for the second straight day and is now hitting .311… JP Crawford came back from the injured list and entered as a pinch-hitter, going 0-for-2…Gilbert threw another quality start, going 6.0 innings and allowing three earned runs…Holmes threw 31 pitches for New York, which is big for the rest of the series.
The two teams will play again on Tuesday at 4:05 p.m. PT.
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Hoop dreams are high for the Seattle Storm
Hoop dreams are high for the WNBA season, following NCAA womenâs playoff games that garnered record attention. Hoping to capitalize on the momentum: the Seattle Storm.
KIRO Newsradio spoke with several key members of Seattleâs professional womenâs basketball team at the teamâs new 50,000 square-foot practice facility and headquarters in Interbay, where photos of Storm legend â and newly minted member of the ownership team â Sue Bird, loom large.
New to the team is Nika Muhl.
âI love Seattle,â Mulh said.
The native of Croatia is coming off an exciting NCAA womenâs basketball season with the University of Connecticut Huskies. She was the Stormâs first draft pick this season.
âThese women that Iâm surrounded with are legends,â Muhl said, looking at the Stormâs practice court. âTheyâre amazing. Theyâre just inspiring to me, personally.â
Commonalities between Nika Muhl and legend Sue Bird
There are bound to be some comparisons between Muhl and Bird. Both are point guards. While the Storm retired Sue Birdâs #10 jersey number, Muhl wore #10 in college.
But Muhl said that doesnât necessarily add to the pressure of her rookie year.
âItâs more like a humbling thing,â she said.
âAll these little similarities that we have. Itâs definitely a cool thing,â she added, gesturing to a photo of Bird. âItâs just a constant reminder of how hard I have to work.â
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For Muhl and others who are new to the team, there are plenty of established âgreatsâ on the court to learn from.
âAmazing players,â said Muhl. âIâm just trying to learn from them as much as I can, you know, take everything in and be a sponge.â
One of those veterans is Jewell Loyd. The point and shooting guard was drafted by the Storm in 2015.
âWeâve been building this season and Iâve been here the longest. Iâm definitely a veteran on this team, so my job is to come in and do my job and lead when I need to lead and have fun,â Loyd said.
When asked how she helps new players adjust to the team, Loyd was matter of fact.
âAt the end of the day itâs just basketball,â she said, indicating that every player is here because the team saw potential in them. âNo added pressure. Just come in here. Learn. Be a sponge and do what you do.â
What will the Seattle Storm bring to this season?
As for what itâll take to get this team into the playoffs, âI think people are still trying to figure that out. You know, every year it changes. Weâve obviously won championships here. Weâve had different dynamics with different teams, but every team has a different journey,â Loyd said.
Storm Head Coach Noelle Quinn commented about her role in helping create a championship-caliber team
âA lot of things, come into play,â Quinn said. âInstilling confidence in our players is putting them in positions where they can be successful on the floor. It is coaching them and guiding them to play the way that Iâve envisioned them playing. It takes time.â
As this team works to find its winning rhythm, they are aware that perhaps more eyes â than ever â are on them, because of the surge in popularity of womenâs basketball. But to them, itâs not daunting. In fact, itâs long overdue.
âFinally! No, it was not a surprise to me,â Muhl said. âWeâve got to give our flowers to all our vets and the people (who came) before us because, without them, womenâs basketball wouldnât have the opportunity to go even further.â
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Loyd shared the same sentiment.
âItâs about time,â Loyd said. âWomenâs sports have been, obviously, growing and weâve been asking for attention for a long time and now itâs here. Now itâs our job to produce and keep doing what weâre doing.â
Quinn agreed.
âI love that we are in a time that eyes are one womenâs basketball. The time is now, the time is tomorrow â in the future as well,â Quinn said. âIâm proud to be a part of this movement.â
The WNBA Storm welcome the Indiana Fever â and Caitlin Clark â to Seattle on Wednesday, May 22.
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âAppearance of segregationâ at Seattle Police Department, captain says in lawsuit
This is a developing story and will be updated.
Seattle Police Captain Eric Greening filed a lawsuit against Chief Adrian Diaz on Monday, alleging that Diaz discriminated against women and people of color at the department.
Greening also claims that Diaz retaliated against him for bringing issues of bias to the chiefâs attention, despite Greening being in a position that required him to do so.
Greening, a Black man, has been with Seattle Police for nearly 30 years. He previously held the role of assistant chief, intermittently served as acting chief, and was a finalist for the role of police chief before Mayor Bruce Harrell chose Diaz for the job.
Heâs also the third former assistant chief to accuse Diaz of racist and sexist behavior in lawsuits. Diaz demoted all three former assistant chiefs prior to their legal claims. Former Assistant Chief Steve Hirjak settled for $600,000 in 2023.
Additionally, four female cops sued Diaz last month, alleging sex discrimination, harassment, and grooming.
This latest lawsuit paints the chief as unwilling to hear sincere advice, even from Greening, a longtime colleague. Greeningâs claims echo a warning police have shared amongst themselves since 2020, when Diaz took power: Donât disagree with the chief, or you may face retaliation.
Greening claims Diaz harmed his reputation, caused him shame and embarrassment, and diminished future career prospects. He now has trouble sleeping and is anxious about further retaliation from Diaz, his attorney Toby Marshall wrote in the lawsuit.
âHe feels humiliated,â Marshall wrote.
A spokesperson with the Seattle City Attorneyâs Office said they’re unable to comment on pending litigation.
The Seattle Police Department did not respond to requests for comment by publication time.
âAppearance of segregationâ
According to the lawsuit, in September 2021, Greening told Diaz that the department discriminated against female and BIPOC officers by assigning them to community outreach work, but not their white male colleagues.
At the time, Greening led the Collaborative Policing Bureau â a department that leads community outreach â and sat on a race and social justice team. In these roles, Greening was expected to raise racism and gender bias issues to Diaz and propose solutions.
Greening told the chief he worried about âthe appearance of segregationâ within the department, and about âcultural taxation,â which is extra work placed on underrepresented groups pertaining to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Greening raised concerns about discrimination again, when he was interviewed as part of a complaint filed by former Assistant Chief Steve Hirjak in November 2021.
Hirjak alleged Diaz and the department treated him differently because of his race, and retaliated against him. Greening said Hirjak received fewer resources and support as incident commander, compared to his white colleagues, and that Hirjak and other female and BIPOC command staff members were left out of decision making.
Two months later, in January 2022, Greening told Diaz that he believed he, the chief, discriminated against Black supervisors by circumventing them and making direct requests to their subordinates â including his own.
In the same meeting, Diaz, according to the lawsuit, said heâd heard rumors about âthe good old boysâ in command staff.
According to the lawsuit, âGreening responded by saying that there was truth to the assertion because Chief Diaz took counsel from only the white men in command staff, leaving the two female assistant chiefs and Mr. Greening as the âout group.â
Greening told Diaz that while the department was diverse, âit was only inclusive when convenient to the dominant power group,â the lawsuit states.
He handed Diaz, who is Latino, a copy of the Continuum of Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Organization â a chart that outlines the six phases of becoming an anti-racist multicultural department.
âI canât fix all of this,â Diaz responded, according to the lawsuit.
Greening raised concerns he had about discriminatory practices at Seattle Police, including those allegedly committed by Diaz, with human resources and the city ombuds office in 2022 and 2023.
In January 2023, Greening asked Diaz to release him of his responsibilities as lead of the departmentâs race and social justice team, a role no white person has ever held.
Then he handed Diaz a research article about cultural taxation.
After this meeting Greening claims that Diaz soured against him.
When Diaz was made permanent chief in January 2023, and on the hunt for a deputy, Greening told Diaz about his interest in the position and applied.
Diaz ignored his request and chose Eric Barden, a white man, instead.
Diaz demoted Greening in July, which resulted in a $27,000 pay cut and reduced the value of future pension payments.
Diaz abolished the outreach bureau that Greening led for two years, and moved him to the Force Review Unit, where he oversaw less than 10 employees and had no contact with the public.
Greening filed a retaliation complaint against Diaz with Seattleâs Office of Inspector General for Public Safety two months after his demotion, in September. An outside attorney has been hired to investigate the complaint.
But like other complaints made against Diaz, thereâs been no resolution.
Last July, several Office of Police Accountability complaints accused Diaz of hiring a woman he allegedly had an affair with to be a top-level advisor. The case has remained at the intake level for 10 months â a long time when compared to complaints against members of the Seattle Police Officer Guild, which are held to an intake deadline of 30 days.
Diaz has faced no immediate consequences despite seven colleagues and four lawsuits coming out against him.
Mayor Harrell said in April that he would hire an outside consultant to examine sexism and harassment allegations against Diaz, but that it could take âmonths and monthsâ because he wanted to allow for âdue process.â
Three city council members have made statements about their concern over these allegations, chief among them Rob Saka, who was the first to speak out vociferously.
âThat type of behavior has no place in our police department,â he wrote. âI plan to exercise my oversight authority to get to the bottom of these culture issues. To that end, I support the women on the force and plan to be in conversation about what we can do as a city to better support them.â
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