Rainiers play their first game of the season in Sacramento tonight

In terms of distance, Sacramento is the Pacific Coast League city closest to Tacoma. But oddly enough, the Rainiers haven’t been here this season — until now, at Game #91.

The Tacoma Rainiers open a six-game series with the Sacramento River Cats tonight with the first pitch scheduled at 6:45. Tacoma and Sacramento have only played one series this season, a 3-3 draw at Cheney Stadium in late May.

This is a short post as apparently my laptop’s keyboard broke in transit. Here’s what this sentence looks like without slow, careful editing: This is a sort because it put my aptopbk in trt.

Luckily I entered everything below yesterday before our trip. Hopefully I can fix that for tomorrow’s post.

RAINIERS DAILY

YESTERDAY: Tacoma was gone yesterday — probably a good thing after Round Rock wrapped up a three-game win over the Rainiers with a 5-1 decision on Sunday afternoon at Cheney Stadium. Tacoma was held by just three hits Taylor Trammel‘s solo home run in the eighth inning was the only thing that kept the Rainiers from being shut out for the first time this season. New starting pitcher Adam Oller looked solid in his Rainiers debut and got off to a good start, going through six innings and conceding three runs, but conceded the loss.

TODAY: Tacoma Rainiers (44-46, 7-8) at Sacramento River Cats (40-49, 6-9), 6:45.

ENEMY ASSOCIATION: San Francisco Giants.

COUNTRY MANAGER: Dave Brundage.

SEASON SERIES: Tie, 3-3.

pitchers: RHP Darren McCaughan (4-4, 6.38) at RHP Miguel Yajure (0-1, 6.75)

ROSTER MOVEMENTS: On Sunday, the Mariners opted for a reliever Matt Festa to Tacoma, appetizer Tommy Milone reported to the Rainiers and relieved Eric Stout was released to sign with a team in Taiwan.

HOT HITTER: Cade Marlowe hit 24 of 65 with seven homers in a 16-game hitting streak… Brian O’Keefe has safely reached base in 13 straight games… Jake Scheiner is tied at the PCL lead with 23 home runs and has hit 14 of them at Cheney Stadium… Mark Mathias has a winning streak of six games.

OPPONENT NEWS: Sacramento just got beaten at home in a three-game streak to Oklahoma City and has lost five straight games… David Villarthe 2022 PCL Most Valuable Player, struggled in the majors this year and is back with Sacramento…River Cats Reliever Nick Avila leads the league with 11 wins – all from the bullpen…recently traded outfielder Jack Larsen is the only former Rainiers player on the Sacramento roster.

TRANSFER: All games will be transfer for free in a live audio stream available here.

Unfortunately, there is currently no traditional terrestrial radio station broadcasting the games.

PCL scoreboard: Follow all league games in real time with links to broadcasts and matchday screens here.

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