DENVER -- The Colorado Rockies have traded outfielder Seth Smith to the Oakland Athletics for right-hander Guillermo Moscoso and left-hander Josh Outman.

DENVER -- The Colorado Rockies and outfielder Seth Smith have agreed to a one-year, $2,415,000 deal, avoiding arbitration.

The Tri-City Dust Devils announced in a statement Friday that Washington State University graduate Chris King will be their new radio play-by-play announcer.

After leading Wisconsin to the Rose Bowl in his lone season with the Badgers, quarterback Russell Wilson has decided to pursue a career in pro football over one in baseball.

Northwest League Manager of the Year Freddie Ocasio and the rest of the 2011 Tri-City Dust Devils coaching staff will return in 2012.

YAKIMA -- For what could be their last season in Yakima, the Bears on Tuesday announced that they will have the same manager as last season.

PASCO -- Fresh off a record-setting season, the Tri-City Dust Devils added yet another feather in their caps Tuesday when Derrel Ebert, their general manager and vice president, was named the Northwest League's Executive of the Year.

PASCO The Tri-City Dust Devils will feel the sting for a while.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- This was not the way the Tri-City Dust Devils wanted to go out.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- One day after losing Game 1 of the Northwest League Championship Series at home, the Tri-City Dust Devils gave themselves a shot to win their first NWL title.

PASCO -- The Tri-City Dust Devils hopped on a bus for Vancouver, British Columbia, late Friday night after their 6-3 Game 1 loss to the Vancouver Canadians in the Northwest League Championship Series at Gesa Stadium.

PASCO -- There's not one universal secret to putting together a great pitching staff.

PASCO -- If you look at the Northwest League website, you'll see that the Tri-City Dust Devils have vastly superior numbers to the Vancouver Canadians.

PASCO -- The Tri-City Dust Devils have been able to hold champagne celebrations in the clubhouse twice this season.

BOISE -- The Tri-City Dust Devils have been to the Northwest League playoffs before.

BOISE, Idaho -- When Christian Bergman takes the ball to begin Game 1 of tonight’s Northwest League Divisional Series matchup between the Tri-City Dust Devils and the Boise Hawks, he’ll draw on the experience he already has as a big-game pitcher.

When Christian Bergman takes the ball to begin Game 1 of tonight's Northwest League Divisional Series matchup between the Tri-City Dust Devils and the Boise Hawks, he'll draw on the experience he already has as a big-game pitcher.

Three eye-popping records hung in the balance during the Tri-City Dust Devils' 3-1 win over Salem-Keizer in the team's regular-season finale Saturday at Gesa Stadium.

PASCO -- Jared Simon lined a two-run home run over the left field fence in the bottom of the seventh to give the Tri-City Dust Devils the final runs they would need Friday in a 3-1 victory over the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes at Gesa Stadium.

Jared Simon lined a two-run home run over the left field fence in the bottom of the seventh to give the Tri-City Dust Devils the final runs they would need Friday in a 3-1 victory over the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes at Gesa Stadium.

PASCO -- The last time Tyler Gagnon faced the Salem-Keizer lineup, things didn't go so well.

PASCO -- The Tri-City Dust Devils had an opportunity to give Salem-Keizer some trouble Wednesday night at Gesa Stadium.

PASCO -- Ryan Casteel got a well-deserved shaving cream pie to the face Tuesday night.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Just when it seemed like the Tri-City Dust Devils were headed for their third consecutive miserable day at the plate, they broke out the lumber.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- The Tri-City Dust Devils' pitching staff came up with another gem Friday at Nat Bailey Stadium in British Columbia, holding the Vancouver Canadians to just two runs on five hits.

VANCOUVER -- The Tri-City Dust Devils scored four runs in the top of the third to take a 4-1 lead but ended up giving it right back the next inning in a Northwest League loss to the Vancouver Canadians at Nat Bailey Stadium.

The Northwest League All-Star team is due out this week, and the playoff-bound Tri-City Dust Devils should earn a few spots on the team. One thing the NWL doesn’t have is a defensive award. If it did, the Dust Devils certainly would grab another healthy handful of honors.

Plays at home might be what fans come out to see, but plays at third can be just as important in determining the outcome of a game.

It's been a trying summer for Tri-City outfielder Jaron Shepherd.

PASCO Christian Bergman made history after all.

PASCO The first time the Tri-City Dust Devils reached the Northwest League playoffs in 2007, they did it on the final day of the season.

Minor league baseball sometimes can be an exercise in chaos, and the teams that handle it best usually come out on top.

Twice in Jordan Ribera's baseball career, he's had to change the way he looked at the game.

EVERETT -- Christian Bergman, the Tri-City Dust Devils ace pitcher, got hit hard Sunday in his pursuit of the Northwest League scoreless innings record, allowing five first-inning runs in a 6-3 loss to the Everett AquaSox.

For 16 major league seasons, Dave Burba was a fan favorite wherever he went.

EVERETT -- The Tri-City Dust Devils had an offensive explosion Wednesday in Everett.

PASCO -- More than 20 years before Christian Bergman was born, two Eugene pitchers made Northwest League history, each pitching 32 consecutive scoreless innings.

The Tri-City Dust Devils' previous six victories may have come rather easily -- each of them a shutout -- but it's good to know they can still win one at the wire, too.

The life of a professional baseball player isn't easy.

PASCO History celebrates individual sports feats more than it remembers pure team victories.

EUGENE -- Nearly a month after giving up a whopping 10 earned runs in a single start in a 14-2 loss at Salem-Keizer, it's clear Tri-City starter Tyler Gagnon has put the memory completely behind him.

DENVER -- Colorado Rockies pitcher Juan Nicasio underwent neck surgery early Saturday to stabilize a fractured vertebra after being struck in the head Friday by a line drive.

EUGENE, Ore. -- The Tri-City Dust Devils couldn't overcome Eugene's six-run fourth inning, losing 10-8 to the Emeralds on Friday night in a Northwest League game at Eugene's PK Park.

EUGENE -- The Tri-City Dust Devils got a taste of their own medicine in a 2-0 road loss to Eugene on Thursday at PK Park.

PASCO -- Now in their 11th season in Pasco, the Tri-City Dust Devils are well established in the local baseball community, having graced the Mid-Columbia with a wealth of talented players since arriving in 2001.

EUGENE, Ore. -- There's just no stopping Christian Bergman lately.

EUGENE, Ore. -- The Tri-City Dust Devils fell to the Eugene Emeralds 9-4 on Tuesday night in the opener of a five-game series at Eugene's PK Park.

For years, baseball players have said that hitting is contagious.

PASCO -- Fortune often favors the bold, and the Tri-City Dust Devils were six different kinds of it during a 7-0 shutout win over the Vancouver Canadians on Saturday at Gesa Stadium.

PASCO -- With their season-best seven-game winning streak hanging in the balance, the Dust Devils rally came up short.