Seattle Sports: In the Morning

HoRam is effective in his return, Betancourt has big plays with bat and glove, M's win 4-2.
Angels idle, A's lost, Indians lost. M's 52-38, 2nd place, 2.5 GB (1 GB of CLE for WC).

Griffey hit his 587th career homer last night, pushing him past Frank Robinson for sole possession of sixth place on the official all-time home run list, and fourth on the non-steroids list. Video of the homer is on the Reds' site.

In that same game, former Mariner pitcher Bobby Livingston went 4-4 and got the win.

Tomo Ohka pitched his first game for Tacoma last night, and got lit up.

Jim Moore catches up with Sharon Hargrove. Hubby Mike just saw their son (a minor leaguer in the M's system) play baseball for just the fifth time ever.

Sue Bird's almost ready to come back, Jayda Evans of the Times says the Storm could get blowed up, seems the ladies aren't keen on signing contracts with a team that might be headed to Oklahoma City.

The Hawks and Josh Brown didn't get a long-term deal done--he could choose to become a free agent after this season.

An interesting piece about Mill Creek product and 2006 first round pick of the Blue Jays Travis Snyder's efforts to get out of his first-ever slump.