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Albert Pujols , Howie Kendrick , Josh Hamilton and Mike Trout all homered off Jeremy Guthrie and the Los Angeles Angels handed the shell-shocked right-hander his first loss in a span of 19 starts with a 6-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night.

Chris Sale took a perfect game into the seventh inning before finishing with a one-hitter, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Los Angeles Angels 3-0 on Sunday night to avoid a three-game sweep.

Coming into the season, I wrote this little ditty, profiling/forecasting Howie Kendrick .

While the Seattle Mariners have played well in any park of late, the Oakland Athletics continue to struggle on the road.

Jason Giambi of the Cleveland Indians isn't athletic enough to field, yet at age 42, he still has a job in the majors.

Kendrys Morales went 3-for-5 with three RBI and two runs scored as the Seattle Mariners captured an 8-3 win over the Baltimore Orioles to take the rubber match of a three-game set at Safeco Field.

The West Coast swing continues with a four game series against the Angels. Tillman, Gonzalez, Garcia, and Hammel for the Birds.

APRIL 12: Josh Donaldson #20 of the Oakland Athletics celebrates after hitting a walk-off solo home run against the Detroit Tigers in the bottom of the 12th inning at O.co Coliseum on April 12, 2013 in Oakland, California.

Michael Morse hit an opposite-field two-run homer, his third home run in four games, Aaron Harang pitched six solid innings for his first win and the Seattle Mariners won their second straight series with an 8-3 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday night.

The 2013 MLB season is just a month old, and while a lot will no doubt change between now and the end of the season, this is a good time to step back and analyze the landscape of the league.

SEATTLE After winning three of four in Oakland to begin their season-longest 11-game road trip, the Orioles headed to Seattle looking to capture another series and, perhaps, guarantee a winning West Coast jaunt without yet stepping foot in Southern California.

Major league managers don't have a particularly long shelf life. Most skippers don't hang around with a club for more than a few seasons due to some combination of too many losses, front office shakeups, and a general abhorrence towards stasis when things go poorly.

Throughout a miserable two weeks before this critical weekend by the Mariners, it seemed at times like Jason Bay was the only hitter consistently putting together quality at-bats. Bay would work himself deep into counts, or reverse them in his favor, while keeping an eye out for the one pitch he could drive.

If the Angels are going to turn around their stumbling start, Mike Scioscia needs better, longer outings from his starting pitchers.

Rays 10, White Sox 4: Matt Moore became the first Tampa Bay pitcher to win five games in April as the Rays snapped a two-game losing streak with a victory over host Chicago.

Wilson went 5 1-3 innings, allowing seven hits and three runs. He walked two and struck out a season-high nine.

Before the reeling Mariners took the field to start a seven-game homestand Thursday night, manager Eric Wedge conceded they were banged up but added, "We've got a lot of major-league players out here capable of winning games." Darned if his team didn't back him up, putting behind it the funk of a disheartening series loss at Houston earlier this ... (more)

Imagine if Howie Kendrick had ended up with the Marlins in a 2007 trade of Miguel Cabrera.

The Mariners are facing the biggest crisis of the Jack Zduriencik era. And, no, I don't feel "crisis" is overstating matters.