A month into his professional baseball career, Brad Reid has learned one thing: you need to have a short memory to succeed as a pitcher in pro ball.
After appearing in only one game with the Peoria Mariners of the Arizona League, the Seattle Mariners’ rookie team, Reid was called up to the High Desert Mavericks, the M’s Class A advanced team in the California League.
Perhaps it was just fatigue from playing their sixth game in six days. Or maybe it was the hot bats of the Bankers Baseball Club, or the weary Lakeside pitching.
After a pair of tough losses in which they could not find a way to mount an offensive attack, the Lakeside Recovery American Legion Baseball club found itself with its back against the wall on the last day of the Brandy Pugh Memorial Tournament.
It’s All-Star break time in Major League Baseball, so there’s no better time to lay out some bold predictions for the second-half of the season.
If you like baseball, I can’t encourage you enough to head out to either BCC or Bannerwood Park this weekend.
What looked to be a sure victory quickly turned into a scare for the Lakeside Recovery Senior Legion baseball team in its first game of the Brandy Pugh Memorial Tournament.
For the record, Benjamin Titus didn’t even know what an albatross was until two weeks ago.
But, thanks to two perfect swings of a golf club, both Titus and his father, Bud, know all about albatrosses and the odds against obtaining them.
An albatross is perhaps the most rare event in golf. Also known as a double eagle, an albatross occurs when a golfer shoots 3-under par on a hole. That’s what Titus did June 23 on the second hole at the Bellevue Municipal Golf Course.
Finally, a sport that doesn’t disappoint.
For once in my life, I’m speechless. So I’ll make this brief, because each word typed out on this keyboard makes me sick to write.
The sun was shining, the runners were trained and ready, but due to a organizational snafu, some participants in the Virginia Mason Team Medicine Seafair Marathon were left out of the race.
Alexa Linger wanted to do more.
The Bellevue High grad and UW freshman had been volunteering with the Seattle Union Gospel Mission since November of 2007, and was looking for a way to do something bigger for the Mission, but struggled to figure out what that might be.
After tragedy rocked both the Bellevue and University of Washington communities, Linger realized she could wait no longer. When Chase Anderson, an ex-boyfriend and friend of Linger’s from Bellevue High School, was tragically killed April 25 while longboarding on the university’s campus, it changed the way Linger approached life.
When the Bellevue Blue 7/8 lacrosse team traveled to Philadelphia last week, they were able to taste some authentic Philadelphia cuisine in addition to the competition of a large East Coast lacrosse tournament.
After swimming a quarter mile, biking for 14 miles and finishing up with a 5-kilometer run, Blaine Lints had only one feeling – regret.
I thought it was time to throw a bone to the West-side Cougars.
Three of the four current and former BCC baseball players selected in the 2008 Major League Baseball draft have signed with their teams, according to BCC head coach Mark Yoshino.
A lot of boxes were packed in a three-day span at Safeco Field last week.
With the Mariners sitting dead-last in the majors, the powers-that-be announced General Manager Bill Bavasi had been relieved of his duties early in the week. On Thursday, Seattle canned manager John McLaren, who had led the club to a lackluster 68-84 record since taking over for Mike Hargrove last season.
On the field and off, Jenika Swanson stands tall.
Just call Collin Bennett the Swiss Army Knife. The Newport senior can do it all.
While many students are busy this weekend celebrating the end of school for the year, Huston Middlesworth has one final exam he hopes to ace.
He was The Kid with the backwards hat and the big smile, our hero with the smooth swing and the sweet glove.
