The Seattle Mariners promoted top prospect Colt Emerson from Triple-A Tacoma on Sunday and placed All-Star utilityman Brendan Donovan on the 10-day injured list with a left groin muscle strain. Emerson, 20, was originally announced in Tacoma's lineup for the Rainiers' home game against Sugar Land, but was scratched shortly before first pitch. Instead, he made the quick drive north to Seattle and will be the youngest Mariners player to make his major league debut since Flix Hernndez did so at 19 years old on Aug. 4, 2005. General manager Justin Hollander said the Mariners electing to call up Emerson wasn't on his bingo card Sunday morning, nor was placing Donovan on the IL. "I probably wouldnt have taken the kids tidepooling in Deception Pass (State Park) this morning," Hollander said with a chuckle. "But, we want to do the right thing for Colt. We also want to do the right thing for the Mariners. We think hes the best option. This period will get him some runway. This is not a 15 at-bat or 20 at-bat tryout to see if hes capable of taking the job and running with it for the rest of the year." Hollander confirmed that Emerson, who is viewed as the shortstop of the future in the Emerald City, will primarily see time at third base at the start of his major league career. He started five games at third base for the Rainiers this season. J.P. Crawford, the longest-tenured player on Seattles roster, remains the everyday shortstop. Crawford, who started the season on the injured list with a right shoulder injury, is hitting .217 with six homers in 39 games. Hollander said he, manager Dan Wilson and president of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto convened Sunday morning and decided it was time to bring up the franchise's top prospect. Emerson signed a $95 million, eight-year contract April 1 the biggest commitment at the time for a minor leaguer yet to make his major league debut. The Mariners selected Emerson with the 22nd pick in the 2023 draft, and his stock only rose from there. Emerson had a breakout year in 2025, when he hit .285 with an .842 OPS, 16 homers, 28 doubles and 78 RBIs across three levels and established himself as a big league-caliber defender. This season in Tacoma, Emerson has hit .255 with an .816 OPS, seven homers, eight doubles and 26 RBIs. Emerson got off to a slow start to the season as he dealt with a wrist injury, but Hollander said a cortisone shot has allowed him to bounce back at the plate recently. "He looks loose, he looks comfortable, he looks confident up there," Hollander said. "Hes starting to put together quality at-bat after quality at-bat. Theres no reason that cant translate over to what happens on this field out here." Donovan missed Saturday's game as he continues to be plagued by a left groin injury. Donovan also missed time from April 18 to May 7 with a left groin muscle strain, and dealt with right groin discomfort earlier in the season as well. Hollander said Donovan reaggravated his left groin injury while trying to hit for the cycle in an 8-3 win over the Houston Astros on Thursday. Donovan will receive a platelet rich plasma (PRP) injection for his groin strain, as well as a different injection in his adductor, according to Hollander. There is no timeline yet for Donovan to return to play, but Hollander estimated it could be two to three weeks. Donovan underwent sports hernia surgery in October 2025 shortly after his last season as a member of the St. Louis Cardinals, which Hollander said the Mariners' sports performance team anticipated could make him more susceptible to groin strains and core muscle strains. "Our own internal view was that there would be some days where he didnt feel good, at least for the first half of the season," Hollander said. "I think the most important thing that we can do is that were putting him in position to go out there and feel good every day." Reporting by the Associated Press

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NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. The last putt has dropped, the fans have vanished into shuttles and cars, and the sun will soon set over Aronimink Golf Club. Here at Golf Digest, we have triple-checked the scoreboard, slapped each other's faces to ensure we aren't locked in dreams, and grilled several harried PGA of America officials about the nature of time and finality. (One of us, on the verge of a nervous breakdown, even consulted a Farmer's Almanac, before realizing it was published in 1976 and written mostly in Dutch.) We have been meticulous in our research, thorough as thieves, and we are pretty sureas sure as we're going to be, anywaythat this thing is over.Deep breath. Repeat the word: Over.Why all this manic scrupulosity? It's simple: We would like to say something definitive about the 2026 PGA Championship, and everything we have said up until this point has been wrong. Our confidence has been shattered, our worldviews upended, and many of us haven't slept a wink in 96 hours. We're getting paranoid; we're starting fights on Twitter. All we want, as the second major of the year comes to an end, and before we pass out in puddles of anxiety and a dozen Citywides, is to finally say something true.We pray we can get there; we pray there's a path.Our sins and errors are like breadcrumbs behind us, and we may as well acknowledge them before the jackals follow our scent and turn us into dinner. The only saving grace is that all the rest of you morons and buffoons were wrong too, and we're hoping that buys us a little time. There aren't many helicopters out of this mess, and like hell if we're going to get left behind with the suckers.FIRST: Everyone knew this course would play easy. Maybe if professional golfers were still playing with elephant femur clubs and balls made of human hair, a golden age-style Donald Ross course like Aronimink could stand up to scrutiny. But in the age of technological sorcery that makes the Department of Defense look on in jealousy, all this course could ever be was quaint. (Read the word "quaint" with as much malice as you can.) It's fine for the architecture nerds to salivate over the "Philadelphia School," which wasn't even a real school or a real philosophy, but there are only so many times you can type the word "rolling terrain" before it shatters into meaninglessness as Max Greyserman drives the green on his seventh straight par-5 to reach 52 under and miss the cut by one. Hell, they even had one natural defense against the carnage, and then someone had the bright idea to cut down all the trees.But then something strange happened, and this was the onset of precarity; our sanity slipping toward the abyss. Aronimink was more than quaint. It was the pasture of demons, the croft of baying hellhounds, the rolling terrain of horror. The ghosts here were mean. If you pried open the door of the stone cottage on 18, you'd find a thousand stacked skulls whose names had been lost to memory. Even Rory's claim that it didn't call for much strategy off the tee was belied by the sticky rough that put up more resistance than anybody expected. On Thursday, they came in off the course with thousand-yard stares and shellshocked psyches. Rory could only muster the word "shit" to describe his round, and even the guys who kept all their limbs, like Scottie Scheffler, told horror stories about pin placement and green contours and wind and cold.Scott Taetsch/PGA of AmericaOn Friday, the collective will was barely enough to push the lead from three under to four under. On Saturday, only one guy could even beat that, and none of us knew what to make of Alex Smalley with his studious speech and his ubiquitous mother.And all the while, subtle drips of madness leaked from invisible phosphorescent stalactites above Aronimink. A South African named Garrick Higgo missed his tee time and began to question established notions of time in ways that started out nonsensical and then took on the dimensions of arcane, possibly extraterrestrial wisdom. It became a sport to pick on poor Higgo, but when we finished laughing and retreated to our corners, how many of us wondered: If someone tells you to arrive at 7:18 and you arrive at 7:18:30, have you not still arrived at 7:18? Long ruminant hours passed as the myelin sheaths on our nerves grew dangerously thin. Garrick, you iconoclast: God help us, we do know what you mean.How could we handle Michael Block under conditions like these? We could not, but there he was anyway, rocketing as always between beloved and despised, and telling stories of self-pep talks in bathrooms that included the line "and there was no mirror, so I wasn't looking at myself."Soon we were repeating this, empty of context, until it took on almost biblical weight: "And there was no mirror, so I wasn't looking at myself."Uncertainty reigned, and at its chaotic apex, Jon Rahm hit a grass divot into the face of an old man.He was exonerated. We didn't have the energy to pursue it.SECOND: The *$%&ing setup. Is it pure gaucherie to put pins on the top of a hill? Is it hackneyed to make men attempt difficult putts? Must we always revert to the supremacy of ball-striking, and must we separate pre-agreed wheat from pre-agreed chaff to attain legitimacy? Is it an affront to dignity when Aronimink dragged the knights of titanium into the forest of slippery greens, where the clumsy men could not draw their bows, and then stuck them in the soft underbelly with a rusty dagger? (Also, may we ask: When players talk about pins being placed on the metaphorical roof of a car, are they constantly thinking of a Volkswagen Beetle? What sort of cars are they driving?)Or, does that sort of setup have its own kind of beauty? Were Rory and Scottie wrong in their complaints, and was wise old voluble Padraig Harrington right in his Sunday scrum when he praised the dark wizard Kerry Haigh and his esoteric arts?The issue was debated with great urgency and intelligence and burning rage online, and though we tend to side with the pro-Aronimink crowd on the merits, we really side with them for the expediency of watching these whining Fauntleroys brought low enough to taste the fresh bentgrass. Eat it up, you bleating sheep! The wolves are coming, and they know your name!THIRD: The bunched leaderboard. We were told the lack of tactical options precluded big scores and small scores. You could make pars and bogeys, and that was it, and for three days we watched this odd amalgam of democratic socialist principlesthe rich taxed into modesty, the poor lifted into comfortall while trying to ignore that Bryson was hitting approaches into neighboring zip codes and pretending it didn't matter that his pitching wedge was the length of a pole vault.In these circumstances, who could break through? For a time, this narrative alone seemed to hold weight. We knew one real thing. And then the English grandson of Indian immigrants, the English son of a Kenyan mother, stole a march on the entire lot of them by playing an exalted, fearless kind of pressure golf when he had every right to crumble. Aaron Rai pierced our malaise and conveyed his message: You don't have to be a superstar to have the courage that lets you keep walking when they open the door for you. The chase pack could only gape in the growing distance as he rejected the sluggish terms of engagement and simply, beautifully, soared.Oh, our poor fried brains. Nothing is real, everything is fiction. What have we watched here? What bizarre play was conducted on this stage? Don't ask us: We're out of ideas. We're depleted. We never want to come back to this place, but more than that, we want to live here forever.Will we remember this PGA Championship in the morning? Will we write, will we call?Maybe not often. But when we do, a single word will traverse the synaptic paths and land on the tips of our tongues, and when it emerges as sound, it will hum with the color of the admiration that breaks all resistance:"Aronimink," we will say, "you were weird." 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Indianapolis Motor Speedway (Speedway, Ind.) Yes, again. Alex Palou, the defending Indianapolis 500 winner and four-time INDYCAR champion who seems to win all the big events these days in INDYCAR, captured the Indy 500 pole Sunday. No surprise there. Unless youre Alex Palou. "Very surprised,"Palou said in his news conference after winning his second career Indy 500 pole. "We did not have the speed. Even on Fast Friday [practice two days ago], we tried and tried and tried to get more speed. It was OK." It certainly was more than OK on Sunday when it counted most. Here are my takeaways: 1. Rosenqvist disappointment Felix Rosenqvist posted the fastest four-lap qualifying run of the day at 232.599 mph. But that came in the top-12 session that determined the six drivers who competed for the pole. Rosenqvist could only muster a four-lap average of 231.375 mph in the Fast Six round, while Palou posted a qualifying speed of 232.248 mph, followed by Alexander Rossi (231.990) and David Malukas (231.877). Rosenqvist had been fastest in early rounds in past years at Indy, and this one was just another disappointment for the Meyer Shank Racing driver. "Ive been so close so many times so its kind of annoying that I am not able to do it," Rosenqvist said told me after his run. "At least I did the run I could with what we had. There was not much more in it." 2. Notable Qualifiers No one expected pole-winning runs from Mick Schumacher and Katherine Legge. But there were plenty of eyes on each of them in their qualifying runs. Schumacher, the former F1 driver and son of seven-time F1 champion Michael Schumacher, will start 28th in his first Indy 500 as a rookie at Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. "Overall, its been great," Schumacher told me and other reporters after his laps. "Its been step by step, and thats what you want you really want out here. You want to build the confidence. ... Unfortunately, we didnt quite hit the [fast] window here." Legge will start 27th as she attempts to do the Indy 500-Coke 600 double next Sunday. "The team has done a phenomenal job getting me a car that is fast and comfortable in normal conditions," Legge told me and other reporters after getting out of her HMD Motorsports car that is being fielded as part of a partnership with A.J. Foyt Racing. "I feel well have a really solid race car." 3. Rossi Quietly Confident When Alexander Rossi talks about his victory in the 2016 Indianapolis 500, he indicates that he plans that it wont be his only win in the race. The ECR Racing driver will start second next Sunday, and has had a quiet confidence about him all week, even though he had an engine expire earlier in the week in practice. [INDY 500 HISTORY: Counting Down The 10 Best Finishes Ever] "This year has been a little bit of failed to meet expectations in some areas and exceeded in others, but internally we're performing at a much higher level and doing a better job than we were last year," Rossi said in his post-qualifying news conference. 4. No crashes? INDYCAR drivers made it through four days of practice and a full qualifying day without anyone having to go to the infield medical center because of a crash. It is rare to go a full week without having at least one car significantly damaged. "This whole grid is pretty damn good, man," Santino Ferrucci told me after he qualified fifth for the Indy 500. "Youre seeing a lot of wheeling out there." Rossi said it certainly isnt because the cars are less than a handful. "It's not easier, I can promise you that," Rossi said. "That was one of the harder qualifying days I've had around here." 4 . Whats Next? INDYCAR teams get two hours to practice Monday and then get a final two-hour practice Friday (Carb Day) before the race Sunday. The Friday slate includes a concert and the Wienie 500. Many of the drivers who were happy with their cars in practice in race trim will be glad to back to where they have speed. Teams get extra boost for qualifying, and that seemed to upset many of the cars, including that of two-time Indy 500 winner Josef Newgarden, who will start 24th. "I could tell from the beginning of the week [qualifying would not be good]," Newgarden told me and other reporters after his laps. "You know very early at this place. Race trim will be a different conversation."

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