Clayton's OTA takeaways: Wilson impresses, McDougald settling in

Sebastian Saucedo launched a shot that found the upper right corner in the 61st minute in Real Salt Lake's 1-0 victory over the Seattle Sounders on Saturday.

James Paxton allowed one run in seven innings and struck out 11, and Mitch Haniger's two-out RBI single in the sixth inning helped give the Mariners a 2-1 win over the Twins.

"Denard Span's gonna play," Mariners manager Scott Servais said of the team's new left fielder, whose acquisition gives Seattle four outfielders to rotate on a regular basis.

"I would say that of your top-10 most important players on this team, Earl Thomas and Frank Clark are cetainly two of them, and they're not here. That's not good news."

Tom Wassell walked away from interviewing Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin on Bob, Groz and Tom trying to figure out what it was about Baldwin that impressed him so much.

Stephen Piscotty and the Athletics tagged Félix Hernández early, and Oakland ended the Seattle Mariners' five-game winning streak with a 4-3 victory Thursday.

"It’s kind of ironic to me that the President of the United States is contradicting what our country is really built on,” Seahawks' Doug Baldwin said about President Trump's support of the NFL's new policy for the national anthem.

There have been a lot of changes this offseason in the NFL, and Al Riveron, Senior Vice President of Officiating, is just the man to ask about how they will all be implemented.

Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin is preparing to kick off another season in Seattle – his eigth in the pros – but for the first time in his career he'll do so without cornerback Richard Sherman.

The NFL made a compromise with its new national anthem policy, as it should have. But it still made a misstep. Mike Salk breaks down where the league went right and wrong.

Marco Gonzales allowed two hits in seven innings in the longest start of his career, and the Seattle Mariners scored their only run on an error in a 1-0 victory over Oakland for their fifth straight win.

The Washington State Major League Baseball Public Facilities District has approved terms of a new 25-year lease with the Seattle Mariners for Safeco Field.

The NFL Wednesday announced a new league policy that would penalize players who kneel during the anthem, pushing instead that players who choose to protest remain in the locker room. The policy, proposed and passed by NFL owners, has received a considerable amount of criticism.

The Mariners have added some outfield depth a day after Mitch Haniger took a pitch off his wrist, with John Andreoli getting the call up from Triple-A Tacoma.

The Mariners are losing key position players left and right to injuries, but they're 4-0 in extra-inning games and 28-19 overall despite scoring just eight runs more than they've allowed this year.