J.P. Crawford spent Thursday’s off-day living out a childhood dream, one that in no way involved baseball. The Mariners’ shortstop flew to Southern California ahead of the team charter to spend the afternoon at SeaWorld San Diego,

J.P. Crawford homered on Stephen Kolek's first pitch and Rowdy Tellez and Cal Raleigh each added a two-run shot for the Seattle Mariners, who beat the San Diego Padres 5-1 Friday night in the opening game of the inaugural Vedder Cup.

Not that the Mariners had to wait as long as the rebels for their first victory tonight. At 6:41 pm Pacific time Padres starter Stephen Kolek threw a four-seam fastball to J.P. Crawford to open the game. It was a well placed pitch, down and in on the corner, but it didn’t matter to J.P.