Rutschman’s maiden MLB voyage has been ‘an awesome experience’
SEATTLE — The Baltimore Orioles dressed quietly in the visitor’s locker room at T-Mobile Park Wednesday afternoon after taking a 9-3 thumping by the Seattle Mariners.
Pros vs. Joes No. 16: Frank Peters at 78: ‘Everything has been replaced except my balls and my brain, and they’re both still working’
Frank “The Flake” Peters was in my conscience from a young age.
On the Pre Classic, Rich Brooks’ 80th birthday party, Adley (and Ad) Rutschman, Damian Lillard, Kevin Calabro and the Trail Blazers …
Sporting items on my mind as we swing into a new week …
I’ll put the Prefontaine Classic up against any 2 1/2-hour sports event in the state of Oregon — and yes, I’m including a basketball game involving the Trail Blazers.
The 47th annual invitational — with a crowd of 8,937 looking on at the newly refurbished track and field shrine called Hayward Field — featured nine meet records and seven world-leading marks in the first international meet since the end of the Tokyo Olympic Games two weeks ago.
No games in 2020, but Rutschman is doing what he can do to prepare for a major-league career
Minor league baseball went dark last season due to the COVID-19 crisis, bad timing for those in the beginning stages of their professional careers.
Even so, Adley Rutschman made the most of his 2020 non-season.
The No. 1 pick in the 2019 major-league draft spent the summer on the Baltimore Orioles’ 60-man roster, though he trained with the minor-league group in Bowie, Md., about 30 miles south of the city.