SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Take a spin around the Cactus League with "Three Up, Three Down," an inside look at what is coming up and what went down on Monday.THREE UP1. The Seattle Mariners' Robinson Cano drove in seven runs with three home runs Sunday against the Chicago Cubs, then hit another blast Monday against a Kansas City Royals split squad as he perfects his swing for next Monday's opener at Texas.Cano leads the Cactus League with seven home runs."Wow, that was a bomb," Mariners manager Scott Servais said of Cano's fifth-inning shot off Royals right-hander Kris Medlen. "He's feeling really good right now. Seeing the ball great. His swing's on time, and we just need to keep him right there for when we get to Arlington."Cano put up modest numbers last year: .287, 21 home runs and 79 RBIs, but the Mariners are expecting much more in 2016."You get in a little bit of a jam and have to challenge Robbie Cano, 2-2, 3-2," Medlen said. "You're not going to win a lot of those battles, really."2. Royals right-hander Edinson Volquez's next start will be Sunday night against the Mets in the season opener and a rematch of the World Series.In Volquez's final spring start, he allowed two runs on five hits and two walks while striking out four in five innings. He threw 58 strikes in 90 pitches.Volquez is not a fan of preseason baseball."I haven't pitched good in spring training for a long time," he said. "I doesn't matter what happens here in spring training. I just try to move forward for that first game."He said a March goal was to lower his ERA. He leaves Arizona with a 3.95 ERA after posting a 6.33 ERA last spring and a 9.64 ERA in 2014 spring training. He said he would take the same stuff, "maybe a little bit better," into his Sunday night start."He threw the ball really well," Royals manager Ned Yost said. "He's ready to go."3. Left-hander Drew Pomeranz may have pitched his way out of the San Diego Padres' rotation.He allowed six runs on six hits and two walks in three innings, ballooning his spring ERA to 8.36, in a loss to the Royals. He yielded a homer, a single and a homer to the first three batters he faced."After the first three guys, I kind of settled in and started making some pitches, started pitching," Pomeranz said. "I was out there throwing to the first couple of guys. I wasn't out there pitching yet."It's a trap you fall into in spring training, trying to work on something, but you have to get guys out."It might have been a trap door for a demotion to the minors."Obviously, I'd like to have another start, not have that be my last one," he said.Manager Andy Green is not promising him that, however, saying, decisions will be hashed out soon with the staff."Clearly wasn't his best outing this spring," Green said. "He wasn't crisp overall."THREE DOWN1. The spring just continues to get worse for Rockies right-hander Jordan Lyles, who gave up seven runs on nine hits in 4 2/3 innings in an 11-7 loss to the Chicago White Sox."It has not been a good spring," Lyles said. "I'm not sure what the numbers are, but I'm sure they're not good."Lyles' spring training ERA climbed to 7.88."Spring training is just spring training," he said. "It's doesn't give anybody an excuse to give up runs, but I'm healthy right now."Lyles was restricted to 10 starts last year, and he went 2-5 with a 5.14 ERA before a right big toe ligament tear ended his season.2. First baseman Jesus Montero is moving east, from the Mariners to the Toronto Blue Jays, who claimed him on waivers.Montero came as a much heralded prospect from the New York Yankees in a January 2012 four-player trade. Montero was Baseball America's No. 6 prospect at the time, but he failed to live up the hype and high expectations.In 208 games with the Mariners, he hit .247 with 24 home runs and 92 RBIs. There were other problems, including a 2014 suspension after on-the-field confrontation with a scout while on a minor league rehab assignment.After hitting .237 in 38 spring at-bats, the Mariners exposed Montero, who was out of options, on the waiver wire. He did not get through, with Toronto acquiring him.The Mariners opted to keep Korean Dae-Ho Lee, whom they added to their big league roster Sunday, as the right-handed hitter in their first base platoon.3. White Sox left-hander John Danks entered the game Monday with an 11-inning scoreless inning streak, but that ended when the Colorado Rockies scored a run in the first.In the third, Danks surrendered three consecutive homers to Charlie Blackmon, Trevor Story and Carlos Gonzalez."Couple of bad pitches, other than that I felt good," Danks said.He rebounded to retire 12 of the final 13 batters he faced, making it through six innings, throwing 96 pitches and striking out five."It was a good opportunity, when the game starts speeding up on you and it is not going well, to try to slow things down and get back to what we're trying to do, and I was able to do that," Danks said.