Tuesday night’s Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Seattle attracted a sea of fans rooting for a variety of players and teams. In a tech city, it felt appropriate to… Read More
Seattle Mariners star Julio Rodriguez hopes to knock the lights out in Monday’s MLB All-Star Game Home Run Derby. On Sunday, he showed up in the lights, as part of… Read More
It’s Opening Day at T-Mobile Park — both the real version of the Seattle Mariners ballpark and the LEGO version, which has undergone a major upgrade from builder Shane Deegan. Deegan,… Read More
The Seattle Mariners have been busy assembling the building blocks for a potential run to the World Series. Shane Deegan has been assembling them as part of a major LEGO… Read More
Free posters, batting gloves and bobbleheads are great, but the Seattle Mariners are tapping into futuristic technology to celebrate baseball’s past with a non-fungible token (NFT) giveaway at an upcoming… Read More
OK, it’s not a World Series ring, but the Seattle Mariners are taking strides to improve performance through technology by adding a new piece of equipment to their arsenal. The… Read More
Satya Nadella is a big fan of cricket. But on Sunday he wound up for a different sport as the Microsoft CEO threw out the virtual first pitch for the… Read More
If you’re going to root, root, root for Mariners in Seattle these days, you’re going to have to do it virtually as baseball has taken on a whole new look… Read More
Tanner Swanson was a week away from starting his first full season in the Major Leagues as a member of the New York Yankees coaching staff. As the COVID-19 pandemic… Read More
Amazon is expanding its sports media footprint with a new deal to stream New York Yankees baseball games this season. The Seattle tech giant will stream 21 Yankees games on… Read More
The Seattle Mariners will be playing in a hometown stadium with a new name this season, and so will the team’s Class A affiliate up north. Funko, the Everett, Wash.-based… Read More
The Seattle Mariners have a bunch of new faces on the field, a new name on the stadium and an increasingly new way to get tickets to a game as… Read More
When your team has the longest post-season drought in all of American professional sports, there is little news — short of getting into the playoffs — that will sound like… Read More
Mariners fans, meet magenta. Seattle’s pro baseball stadium will be named T-Mobile Park for the next 25 years after a new deal between the Mariners and the Bellevue, Wash.-based wireless… Read More
The Safeco Field signage came down from Seattle’s baseball stadium a week ago, and according to a new report, the T-Mobile name will be up in time for the 2019… Read More
Lorena Martin, the first Director of High Performance with the Seattle Mariners, is out after just one season with the Major League Baseball team, and she’s not leaving on friendly… Read More
Today’s featured stories MLB partners with Amazon Web Services to predict pitches and analyze live games with robots Agent 007 James Bond’s next ride? Flying cars grab Farnborough Airshow’s spotlight… Read More
Deeper stats, predicted pitches, and live commentary produced by robots in the voice of iconic announcers — it could all be coming to Major League Baseball broadcasts soon. MLB re-upped… Read More
The Seattle Mariners went back to the future on Saturday night with a celebration rooted in the past. In honor of the 20th anniversary of “Turn Ahead the Clock Night,”… Read More
Embed from Getty Images I didn’t know that Seattle Mariners pitcher James Paxton was throwing a no-hitter against the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday until the game was practically over.… Read More
From inside a lab at the University of Pittsburgh to a local Dunkin Donuts shop and finally to Major League Baseball, it’s been a quite the sports technology adventure for… Read More
If baseball is a numbers game, who better to have on your team than a true data geek? For the first time in team history, the Seattle Mariners have hired… Read More
If the Seattle Mariners “left it all on the field” at the end of the 2017 baseball season they won’t be able to get it back next year, as the… Read More
Not content with just battling opponents on the baseball field, the Seattle Mariners are taking on internet bullies, too, with a new children’s book featuring the team’s star pitcher and… Read More
After American Airlines threw Tacoma Rainiers infielder D.J. Peterson some sort of curveball, he and his teammates Daniel Vogelbach, Pat Light, and Mark Lowe were forced to take a very… Read More
Seattle Mariners GM Jerry Dipoto has been around baseball for a lot of years, as a player and as an executive. He recognizes, that despite all the tech and data… Read More
Amazon’s voice technology has made its way into Major League Baseball. Earlier this month, the Seattle Mariners became the first professional sports franchise to place Amazon Echo devices inside stadium… Read More
There are some debates that seem to come up during every baseball season. Whether the National League should start using designated hitters; which players deserve to be in the Hall of Fame; why… Read More
This might be the geekiest giveaway in sports history. The Minnesota Twins are giving away 5,000 cardboard virtual reality viewers to fans attending the July 29 game against the Chicago… Read More
KING5 revamped its TV studio in February. Q13 did the same a few weeks later. And now it’s Root Sports Northwest’s turn. It’s become the year of the TV studio… Read More