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Seattle will hire two rangers to patrol Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill and Pioneer Square's perpetually dicey Occidental Park.

As Ryan Divish of The News Tribune in Tacoma reports , the M's are sending Montero down to the Triple-A Rainiers and will promote catcher Jesus Sucre to the major-league team.

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

Seattle Mariners pitching coach Carl Willis, second from left, talks with starting pitcher Brandon Maurer as teammates stand by during the second inning of their baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Anaheim, Calif.

The last thing you want to do as a baseball team is overreact to a bad stretch. But the Mariners have reached a point where a few moves are necessary not just as a knee-jerk way to shake things up in the middle of a slump, but as a realistic means to improve the team moving forward.

While his prospect peers are struggling, Justin Smoak looks like he's finally seeing some improvement.

Ken Rosenthal has been the senior baseball writer for FOXSports.com since August 2005.

The Mariners were a popular pick to be a "surprise" team this season, which, frankly, kind of ruins the surprise in the event that the surprise even occurs.

So much of baseball writing, it seems to me, ends up being the act of finding new ways to say the same thing as before.

North Carolina third baseman Colin Moran is the Atlantic Coast Conference's player of the year and teammate Kent Emanuel is its pitcher of the year.

They'd already been owned by Cleveland Indians ace Justin Masterson in the top half of the frame, then spent the bottom part forgetting the basics in the field en route to two quick runs by the home side.

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 Mariners fell to the Indians 6-3 in 10 innings last night, as Jason Kipnis ripped a walk-off three-run blast off of Lucas Luetge.

Raul Ibanez was among the veteran Mariners hitters who really stepped up during a recent 18-game team hot streak.

I did an email interview with Brian Heise of Wahoo's on First, the Fansided Indians blog, as a preview for the Mariners' series in Cleveland this weekend.

With the Indians set to take on the Mariners in what is sure to be an epic four game, wrap around series, I decided it would be a good idea to reach out to the editor of Sodo Mojo , Patrick Leary, and ask him some questions about the Mariners, their ever continuing youth movement, and of course, Felix Hernandez .

With optimism higher for many Mariners fans after a series win against the AL East leading New York Yankees , fans are starting to think about bigger things for the 2013 Seattle Mariners .

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