Worth noting

• Pitchers Taijuan Walker (right shoulder impingement) and James Paxton (left lat strain) continue playing catch and rehabbing back in Seattle while the team is on its nine-game road trip.

"I would hope they would sometime in the next week start throwing bullpens," said manager Lloyd McClendon, who indicated Walker is a little ahead of Paxton at this point in his potential return from the disabled list.

• Blake Beavan, also on the DL with right shoulder tendinitis, has not yet been cleared to start throwing, McClendon said.