Justin Smoak News

Matt Wieters hit a three-run homer to boost the Orioles to a 6-3 win over the Yankees, highlighting Wednesday night's play for Lowcountry players in pro baseball.

After four losses, three on walk-offs by the Indians in four days, the Seattle Mariners couldn't pack their bags and get to the airport fast enough.

It wasn't a typo. On Friday night, Franklin Gutierrez was originally penciled in to be starting in right field for the Tacoma Rainiers in the second game of his rehab stint.

Maybe that's why Mike Trout was so excited hitting for the cycle in leading the Los Angeles Angels to a 12-0 victory over the Seattle Mariners Tuesday night at Angel Stadium.

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.

"Best game I've ever been a part of," Perez said. "It was the craziest, most fun ... obviously, it stunk to give up a home run, but it was still fun." Yan Gomes hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning as the Indians, revived by Seattle fielding errors in the final two innings, beat the Mariners 10-8 on Monday to complete a four-game sweep and ... (more)

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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.

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.

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.

Seattle closer Tom Wilhelmsen can't handle a throw from first baseman Justin Smoak with two outs in the ninth Monday on a ball hit by Carlos Santana, allowing the tying run to score.

Yan Gomes' game-winning three-run homer in the bottom of the 10th inning lifted the Tribe to a four-game sweep of the Seattle Mariners.

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

On Friday night, Franklin Gutierrez originally was penciled in to start in right field for the Tacoma Rainiers in the second game of his rehab stint.

Brantley hit a three-run homer in the second inning off Hernandez , who failed to go at least six innings for the first time this season.

Danny Farquhar's debut with the Seattle Mariners went slightly better than his major league debut in 2011 with the Toronto Blue Jays.

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

Mark Reynolds ' fielder's choice with the bases loaded in the ninth inning lifting the Cleveland Indians to a 5-4 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday.

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.