The Seattle Mariners made two trades over the weekend, including a seven-player, three-team deal right before the non-waiver trade deadline. They’re hoping the moves will lead to a brighter future, because the present is an ugly mess. The woeful Mariners managed just six hits against Jeremy Hellickson and two relievers Sunday, falling 8-1 to the Tampa Bay Rays.

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The Detroit Tigers wanted a victory Saturday to stay in control of the AL Central race.

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Joe Maddon watched Michael Pineda pitch in person for the first time on Saturday. It didn’t take long for the Tampa Bay manager to figure out how the rookie made the All-Star team. The Rays managed just one hit against Pineda, who struck out 10 while leading the Seattle Mariners to a 3-2 victory. “He is the kind of guy that on any given night you could say he has no-hit stuff,” Maddon…

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Nine innings and nine items to get you going. Ladies and gentleman of the Stew, take a sip of morning Juice. 1. There goes that man again: Every now and then Edgar Renteria will remind us he’s still hanging aroud … Continue reading →

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By MIKE FITZPATRICK AP Sports Writer

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Ichiro Suzuki is in the midst of his worst big league season at .272. He’s never failed to hit .300 or get 200 hits, and he’s going to need a huge surge to get to either plateau over the course of the final nine weeks.

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The Major League Baseball trade deadline is fast approaching, and plenty of big names already are on the move. Carlos Beltran is headed to San Francisco, bolstering the reigning world champions for another run at the title and Colby Rasmus is out of Tony La Russa’s dog house in St. Louis and on his way to Toronto.

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Dustin Ackley spoke of an eagerly awaited cross country trip home to Seattle as the lyrics, “It’s OK. I know nothing’s wrong, nothing,” from a Talking Heads song blared in the Mariners clubhouse. Brendan Ryan talked about the laughs he and his teammates would share later Wednesday. Felix Hernandez smiled as he recalled staying in the dugout for the full nine innings for the first…

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The ace of the staff is the guy who is looked to when someone has to step up in times of trouble, and for the Seattle Mariners, that man is Felix Hernandez. While he was unsuccessful at cutting short Seattle losing streaks earlier this month at four, seven and 12 games, he got…

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The Rays appear to be dropping out of the race for a playoff spot, with Tuesday’s 6-1 loss to Oakland their 12th defeat in their last 18 games. Tampa Bay is now 8 1/2 games behind the wild-card-leading Yankees and 10 1/2 games behind the first-place Red Sox in the AL East.

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