With game-time temperatures Sunday expected to be near 90 degrees, Mariners manager Scott Servais talked about some of the safety precautions his players took hours beforehand.
Drink extra fluids.
And stay as cool as possible.
Then the old catcher in Servais surfaced to tell of a hard-knock story of him learning about heat stroke the hard way.
Right after Servais graduated from Westby High School in Coon Valley, Wisconsin, and after he was picked in the second round of the 1985 major-league amateur draft by the New York Mets, he went off to a high-profile tournament in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.