NOTEBOOK Mariners RHP Woo exits season debut with injury
Seattle right-hander Bryan Woo left his season debut after 41⁄3 scoreless innings Friday night against the visiting Oakland Athletics for precautionary reasons, according to the Mariners.
The team added that Woo’s status would be updated following the game.
Woo allowed just one hit and left with the Mariners leading 5-0, just two outs shy of qualifying for a victory. Woo missed the start of the season with right elbow inflammation.
After Woo retired Oakland’s Tyler Soderstrom on a foul popup to open the fifth inning, Mariners manager Scott Servais, pitching coach Pete Woodworth and a member of the team’s training staff came to the mound to check on Woo, who had thrown 62 pitches.
Woo walked off with the trainer and Trent Thornton was called in from the bullpen.
As a rookie in 2023, the 24-year-old Woo was 4-5 with a 4.21 ERA in 18 starts for Seattle.
Mariners RHP Brash undergoes Tommy John surgery
Seattle Mariners right-hander Matt Brash underwent Tommy John surgery on Wednesday and will be sidelined for at least part of the 2025 season, general manager Justin Hollander told reporters prior to Friday’s home game against the Oakland Athletics.
Hollander said the UCL was repaired and a brace was installed in Brash’s pitching arm.
“We anticipate 12 months and back at it, so hopefully June of next year he’ll be back and ready to go,” Hollander said.
“This is a tough one. Usually I don’t give more detail than the injury.”
Brash hasn’t pitched this season and was shut down from throwing in late April.
Brash, who turns 26 on Sunday, led the majors with 78 appearances last season and went 9-4 with four saves and a 3.06 ERA.
Cubs put SS Swanson on IL, activate OF Suzuki
The Chicago Cubs placed shortstop Dansby Swanson on the 10-day injured list prior to Friday night’s game against the Pittsburgh Pirates and activated outfielder Seiya Suzuki off the same list.
Swanson, 30, sprained his right knee earlier this week and the move was retroactive to Wednesday. Suzuki had been sidelined with a right oblique strain.
Swanson is batting just .209 with four homers and 12 RBIs in 37 games this season.
He is in his second season with the Cubs after spending seven seasons with the Atlanta Braves.
A two-time All-Star, Swanson has a .252 career average with 128 homers and 503 RBIs in 1,011 games.
Suzuki, 29, went on the injured list on April 15. He is batting .305 with three homers and 13 RBIs in 15 games this season.
Now in his third season in Chicago, Suzuki has a .277 average with 37 homers and 133 RBIs in 264 games.
Report: Former MLB infielder Sean Burroughs dies at 43
Sean Burroughs – winner of the Little League World Series, a 2000 Olympic gold medalist and a first-round pick in the MLB draft – has died at age 43, USA Today reported.
Burroughs collapsed while coaching his son’s Little League team Thursday, per the report. No further details were immediately available.
Growing up in Long Beach, Calif., Burroughs won consecutive Little League World Series championships in 1992 and ‘93, throwing back-to-back no-hitters. He then went on to star at Long Beach Wilson High.