Baseball: Mariners Find New Way to Lose in Heartbreaker in Minnesota
7/24/23 Twins 4, Mariners 3 (10) (Minneapolis, MN) Riding a little bit of momentum for the first time since before the All-Star break, the Seattle Mariners headed out on the…
Baseball: M’s Miss Sweep Opportunity, Drop Finale with Toronto
7/23/23 Blue Jays 4, Mariners 3 (Seattle, WA) While the MLB continues to try to force a rivalry between the Seattle Mariners and San Diego Padres, there is already a…
Emerald Downs: Saturday Cruz closes gap in Jockey race and wins career #800; Nan Elizabeth takes feature; pick 5 pays 10k
7/22/2023 The 7 races on Saturday couldn’t be more different as there were many chances to make a stack of money including the 2nd 10k+ pick 5 of the year.…
Baseball: M’s Survive Blue Jays in Game of the Year Contender
7/22/23 Mariners 9, Blue Jays 8 (Seattle, WA) Chaos ball was the theme of the 2022 Seattle Mariners last season due to the weird and wild ways that they would…
Emerald Downs: Friday Night Napoletano takes the feature, Cruz extends Fri nite win streak, Radke and Wright double
7/21/2023 (Auburn, WA) Friday night racing had 7 races with 43 starters or just over 6 a race average. 4 favorites won along with 2 2nd fav’s and the longest…
Baseball: Teo Walks Off Former Team, M’s Beat Jays
7/21/23 Mariners 3, Blue Jays 2 (Seattle, WA) Rivalry games and series are always so much fun. The atmosphere is like a playoff game in the middle of July. With…
Baseball: Kirby Dazzles, M’s Salvage Split with Twins
7/20/23 Mariners 5, Twins 0 (Seattle, WA) Bad news started the day for the Seattle Mariners on Thursday afternoon. We learned left fielder Jarred Kelenic would miss a good chunk…
Emerald Downs: Jockey Power Rankings #10; Radke surges, Anaya blazes while Cruz and Negron remain in a battle
7/21/2023 The 10th Power Rankings go full circle from week 1 with Kevin Radke skyrocketing back to the top of the rankings scoring 5 wins leading all this past weekend…
Baseball: Late Mistakes Stop Mariner Comeback as Twins Win Again
7/19/23 Twins 6, Mariners 3 (Seattle, WA) It is always fascinating to me to see how a team bounces back from a blowout losses. We’ve seen the Seattle Mariners try…
WIAA Assistant Executive Director BJ Kuntz steps down, WIAA re-vamps Director positions
7/18/2023 The WIAA has shaken up their organization a little bit with the departure of one of the assistant Executive Directors. BJ Kuntz resigned at the end of the school…
Emerald Downs: Local Reaction to Golden Gate closing announcement
7/19/2023 Sunday the focus at Emerald Downs was the two 3-year-old stakes races, the Kent Stakes and the Irish Day Stakes until word broke that the Stronach group announced they…
Baseball: Mariners Start Fast, Can’t Keep Up in Blowout Loss to Minnesota
7/18/23 Twins 10, Mariners 3 (Seattle, WA) It was a weird day in baseball on Tuesday. Offense was the story of the day as 12 teams put up double digit…
Baseball: Two-Out Offense Bails Out Pitching as M’s Beat Twins
7/17/23 Mariners 7, Twins 6 (Seattle, WA) After finishing the first half extremely strong, Logan Gilbert was looking to build that momentum into a strong second half close to the…
Emerald Downs: Sunday Irish Day 2 Stakes as takes the Irish Day and wins the Kent Stakes; Cruz cuts into the Jockey lead plus art show
7/16/2023 Sunday was another double Stakes day, this was the 3-year-olds week with the 50k Kent Stakes for fillies and 50k Irish Day stakes for colts and geldings. Both favorites…
Baseball: Miller Strong in Return, Bullpen Does the Rest as Mariners Salvage One with Tigers
7/16/23 Mariners 2, Tigers 0 (Seattle, WA) Being swept coming out of the All-Star break can completely kill a team and end their season right there. Being swept by a…
Emerald Downs: Saturday Night feature celebrates Vic Cozzeti as Deshambeau wins “The Predictor Memorial Race”
7/15/2023 If you had been around racing in the Northwest for the past 50+ years no doubt you know him well or have heard of Victor “The Predictor” Cozetti. Vic…
Baseball: Mariner Offense MIA, Get Shutout by Tigers
7/15/23 Tigers 6, Mariners 0 (Seattle, WA) Offense is absolutely essential to winning baseball games. It doesn’t matter how good a team’s rotation is, if they can’t score then they…
Baseball: Mariners Sleepy After Break, Lose to Detroit
7/14/23 Tigers 5, Mariners 4 (Seattle, WA) The wonderful game of baseball returned after the All-Star break on Friday night as the Seattle Mariners played their first game in their…
Emerald Downs: Friday Night Lights, Negron bounces back with Double, Cruz extends Friday Night streak and Queensboro takes the feature
7/14/2023 The beginning of week 11 was another Friday-Sunday schedule but the Friday night card marks the halfway point of the 2023 season. This week will be capped with a…
Emerald Downs: Jockey Power Rankings #9 No stability in Power Rankings! Cruz re-asserts himself, Ortiz Blazes, Amador & Radke win Stakes
7/14/2023 This is our 9th Power Rankings of the year and just when it looked like maybe leading rider Luis Negron might begin to open up an unsurmountable lead and…