Former Mariner Eugenio Suarez drove in the winning run to give Venezuela its first-ever WBC title.<\/p>\n
WBC News<\/p>\n
A former Mariner helped take down the United States in the World Baseball Classic title game last night.<\/p>\n
Eugenio Suarez drove in the winning run with a late double in the top of the ninth to give Venezuela a 3-2 win over the US.<\/p>\n
Venezuela led for most of the game before Bryce Harper smacked a 2-run homer to tie it in the eighth. Harper finished with two hits, but the rest of the US lineup managed just one as their offense came to a screeching halt.<\/p>\n
The US didn\u2019t have any Mariners representation either, with Cal Raleigh and Gabe Speier staying put on the bench.<\/p>\n
Eduardo Rodriguez tossed just over four innings of shutout ball for Venezuela before Mariners reliever Eduard Bazardo took over to notch a pair of outs.<\/p>\n
It was Venezuela\u2019s first-ever WBC title.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mariners News<\/p>\n
With the WBC coming to an end, the Mariners are looking to regroup as a full unit with just about a week to go before Opening Day.<\/p>\n
The M\u2019s have five games left in Cactus League play before returning home to Seattle, where they\u2019ll open the season with a seven-game homestand.<\/p>\n
The team still has yet to announce an Opening Day starter for their first game against the Cleveland Guardians next Thursday. It\u2019ll be a late 7:10 first pitch from T-Mobile Park.<\/p>\n
March Madness News<\/p>\n
The First Four of the men\u2019s national basketball tournament continues today.<\/p>\n
16-seeds Prairie View A&M and Lehigh are battling it out at 3:45 for the right to face top-seeded Florida in the South Region.<\/p>\n
After that, 11-seeds Miami of Ohio and SMU are playing, with the winner moving on to face 6th-seeded Tennessee in the midwest. That game tips off at 6:15 tonight.<\/p>\n
The first round of the tourney starts tomorrow, with TCU and Ohio State kicking off a 16-game slate at 9:15 am. 3rd-seeded Gonzaga will play 14th-seeded Kennesaw State at 7 pm in Portland.<\/p>\n
March Madness coverage gets underway at 8:00 tomorrow morning on KPUG.<\/p>\n
The women\u2019s national tournament also tips off today with Richmond playing Nebraska and Stephen F. Austin taking on Missouri State in another pair of First Four matchups.<\/p>\n
WNBA News<\/p>\n
The WNBA season has been saved.<\/p>\n
ESPN reports that the league and players\u2019 union have reached a verbal agreement to new terms of their collective bargaining agreement<\/p>\n
Under the new CBA, the salary cap will start at $7 million, which is up from $1.5 million last season. The average salary will also quintuple to roughly $600,000 with the minimum salary surpassing $300,000.<\/p>\n
Players\u2019 union president and Seattle Storm star Nneka Ogwumike was among those to announce the deal to reporters following more than 100 hours of bargaining sessions over the past week.<\/p>\n
The Storm open their season at home on May 8 against the Golden State Valkyries.<\/p>\n
Kraken News<\/p>\n
The Kraken suffered a lopsided loss last night.<\/p>\n
They fell to the Tampa Bay Lightning 6-2 for their fifth loss in seven games. Nikita Kucherov had a hat trick and two assists for Tampa in the win.<\/p>\n
Bobby McMann scored his second goal in as many games with the Kraken after being acquired at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n
Seattle\u2019s still clinging on to the final playoff spot in the Western Conference, currently tied with the LA Kings for eighth place. The team\u2019s now hitting the road for a six-game trip out east, starting tomorrow night with the Nashville Predators.<\/p>\n
Coverage begins at 4:30 and puck drops at 5 on KGMI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Mariner Eugenio Suarez drove in the winning run to give Venezuela its first-ever WBC title. WBC News…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-531386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}