Brendan Ryan News

Yan Gomes gets ready for a rousing reception at home plate after belting a game-winning home run for the Cleveland Indians on Monday.

The Angels are 17-27 on the year and sit in fourth place in the American League West, a long way away from the rivals they were supposed to battle atop the division.

Jason Kipnis scored the winning run in the ninth inning when Brendan Ryan's throw pulled catcher Jesus Montero off the plate, sending the Indians to a 5-4 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday.

Jason Hunt takes a look at the action from the two AAA leagues in the past two weeks, including top prospects Billy Hamilton, Sonny Gray, Zach Wheeler, Jake Odorizzi and others in this weekend's Minor League Level Review.

The Cleveland Indians squandered a four-run lead, but rebounded to beat the Seattle Mariners in walk-off fashion for the second straight day.

Jason Kipnis' three-run homer in the 10th inning gave the Cleveland Indians a 6-3 win over the Seattle Mariners on Friday night.

Twelve Yankees already have been on the disabled list this year, costing a total of 332 games.

The Seattle Mariners have brought a few guys up from Triple-A Tacoma this season.

Michael Morse clubbed a solo homer to help lift the Seattle Mariners to a 3-2 win over the New York Yankees in the rubber match of a three-game set.

The Mariners are about to get underway in New York, and starting for Seattle will be Hector Noesi.

There come times in every game where one swing can decide the outcome, and this particular moment was staring Raul Ibanez in the face.

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On Tuesday, second baseman Dustin Ackley wasn't in the starting lineup for the second time in as many games as the Mariners opened a nine-day road trip, but manager Eric Wedge said that was strictly about playing matchups against Yankees standout CC Sabathia.

It seems far-fetched for the Mariners to actually be rated a better team than the Yankees here.

I have defended leaving Brendan Ryan at shortstop for a while, even when he was hitting below .200 for the majority of last year and partially into this year.

Nice to be back after a couple of weeks away. I'd like to thank everyone who wrote in to express their sympathies on the death of my mother during heart surgery back on May 3. Special thanks to the Times team for their support and to colleague Larry Stone for his kind words in print and on the phone and for his jumping on a plane to pick up for me ... (more)

Seattle Mariners catcher Jesus Montero, left, heads to the mound to celebrate as Oakland Athletics' Michael Taylor stands at the plate after striking out to end a baseball game on Sunday, May 12, 2013, in Seattle.

Hernandez has made seven starts as a visitor against the Yankees, and he is 5-2 with a 2.06 ERA, including two complete games.

Still trying to find their way to .500 six weeks into the season, the Seattle Mariners already have three certainties among their five-man rotation.

The Mariners put constant pressure on the A's over the final three innings tonight with eight base-runners. But just one of those scored as the M's stranded two in the seventh, three in the eighth, and two more in the ninth.