Domingo Santana (1-for-5 with a grand slam) is already in beast mode.  That beast is a dingo, emphasis on ding, as in dinger, and you can't spell Domingo without dong, but this dingo eats dongs not babies, and I've got smoke coming out my ears....We have real baseball!  Then, tomorrow we won't have real baseball again for a week.  MLB is so crackers it's staying at the Ritz by the water, Cheez-it, Mary and Joseph!  "Happy Opening Day two days later," said the Time Zone to the Baseball Fan.  I can't wait to see how Mike Fiers (3 IP, 5 ER) and Marco Gonzales (6 IP, 3 ER, 8 baserunners, 4 Ks) react to pitching in a game, then taking a 56-hour plane flight home to pitch again in a week.  Their combined 89 MPH fastballs are gonna have some jet lag.  Hopefully, their elbows won't.  The Stream-o-Nator wasn't thrilled with either pitcher, and neither was great.  Yes, the Stream-o-Nator is back!  The only real takeaway I have from these games is the A's are at least thinking similarly to me, and that Ramon Laureano (0-for-5, 3 Ks) is the best man for the A's leadoff job.  I'll toast to that!  Anyway, here's what else I saw yesterday for fantasy baseball: (více...)

Ichiro Suzuki drew the loudest ovation back home in Japan and Domingo Santana delivered the biggest hit, launching a grand slam that led the Seattle Mariners over the Oakland Athletics 9-7 Wednesday in the Major League Baseball opener. The game at the Tokyo Dome marked the earliest opening day... (více...)

TOKYO (AP) - Ichiro Suzuki drew the loudest ovation back home in Japan and Domingo Santana delivered the biggest hit, launching a grand slam that led the Seattle Mariners over the Oakland Athletics 9-7 Wednesday in the Major League Baseball opener. The game at the Tokyo Dome marked the earliest ... (více...)

Domingo Santana went 1-for-5 with a grand slam in a 9-7 victory on Wednesday over the Athletics.

Santana did what he does best, crushing a Mike Fiers offering over the right-field wall to give the Mariners a 5-2 lead. Of Santana's 55 homers, 22 of them have been to the opposite field, showing he truly has pop to all parts of the stadium. Santana has been a bit of a forgotten man in drafts this year, but he's going to get a chance to be an everyday player, and it's certainly possible he's a 30-homer contributor for the Mariners in 2019.

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Domingo Santana went 2-for-3 in the Mariners' loss to the Dodgers in Cactus League play on Saturday.

Santana doubled off Dodgers reliever Yimi Garcia in the fifth and also singled in the seventh. The 26-year-old outfielder was the lone bright spot for the Mariners offense, which managed just four hits combined in this one. He's generating plenty of sleeper buzz, hitting a blistering .455 (10-for-22) with four homers in nine games this spring.

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