Mount Rainier grad makes Majors

Mount Rainier High School graduate Brandon Mann broke into Major League Baseball briefly this season with the Washington Nationals.
Mann, a left-handed pitcher, threw in two games for the Nationals after starting off the year with a minor league contact.
Mann finished the stint with 1.2 innings pitched with three runs -- all earned -- plus three hits and two strikeouts. He also had no saves after coming in with one save opportunity.
Tampa Bay drafted Mann in the 27th round in 2002, and he went on to spend the 2011 and 2012 seasons with the Yokohama Bay Stars in Japan. He then signed a minor league contract with the Nationals after the 2012 season.

Travis Ishikawa on the move

Travis Ishikawa, a graduate of Federal Way High School, has played in three Major League Baseball organizations this year and earned call-ups from two of them.
Ishikawa started off with the Baltimore Orioles organization and was called up for a 17 at-bat stay with two hits and one RBI.
Ishikawa was then designated for assignment by the Orioles and chose free agency, signing on for what turned out to be a two at-bat stay with the New York Yankees. Ishikawa went 0-for-2 for the Yankees on two strikeouts.
He was then designated for assignment by New York and chose free agency again, with the Chicago White Sox signing him to a minor league deal. Ishikawa is now with the White Sox farm team in Charlotte, N.C.
The first baseman spent last year with the Milwaukee Brewers after starting off his career with the San Francisco Giants, including the Giants' World Series championship season in 2010.

Conger sticking with Angels

Federal Way native Hank Conger has spent the 2013 season as a catcher for the Los Angeles Angels, playing in 60 games.
Conger has 36 hits in 150 at-bats for a .240 average. He has scored 17 runs and driven in 14. He has seven doubles, one triple, six home runs, nine walks and 39 strikeouts.
Conger and the Angels will be in Seattle for games Aug. 23-25.