Hisashi Iwakuma News

Brandon League is out as the Seattle Mariners closer for now. Seattle manager Eric Wedge said before Saturday's game against the Los Angeles Angels that the team would 'pull back' on League as the closer and attempt to finish games with other pitchers.

On a night the Mariners finally found some offensive footing, Felix Hernandez yanked the carpet right out from under them.

Blake Beavan came out and threw for about 10 or 15 minutes today at Yankee Stadium and after was pronounced OK enough to pitch on Tuesday in Boston.

After watching Hisashi Iwakuma up close this spring, Mariners GM Jack Zduriencik knew there was no way he could turn him loose on a major league mound when it mattered.

You might've seen this, but the other day, when Albert Pujols finally hit his first home run of the season, he returned to an empty dugout.

A truly embarrassed Jesus Montero returns to behind home plate after jogging off the field with just two outs.

In Shawn Kelley's first appearance of the season, he faced two batters and allowed a critical home run.

Highlighting a bad performance from the previous night in baseball might seem like a harsh way to start the morning.

The first appearance of Japanese right-hander Yu Darvish as a starter for the Rangers against the Blue Jays on Monday is more of a curiosity factor than a box-office bonanza.

But the Mariners relief pitcher insisted after yielding a grand slam to Edwin Encarnacion in the eighth inning Saturday that he hadn't felt any rust from going eight days since his last outing.

That's former Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu out on the field post-game, running a bit of a baseball clinic for some fans.

This game was a lot closer than the final score indicated. At least, it really was closer than the 7-0 result in favor of the Toronto Blue Jays.