Rangers Lose In Seattle

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SEATTLE — Seattle third baseman Kyle Seager can’t explain his success against Texas over the years.

Seager let his bat do the talking again on Sunday, when he went 4-for-4 with two doubles and three RBIs in the Mariners’ 5-1 win over the Rangers.

In 12 games against the Rangers this season, Seager is hitting .396 with 12 RBIs, five extra-base hits and a .646 slugging percentage. He is hitting .337 with a .667 slugging percentage against Texas over his four-year career.

“That’s just one of those weird things,” he said. “That’s baseball. I’d like to be able to do it against everybody.”

Seager drove in the Mariners’ first three runs before scoring on left fielder Dustin Ackley’s single in the eighth.

Seattle starter Hisashi Iwakuma (5-3) allowed just one run off six hits over eight innings of work as the Mariners (34-35) snapped their five-game losing streak.

In the hours before Sunday’s game, Iwakuma didn’t even think he’d be able

to make the start. A sore neck hampered him throughout his pre-game stretch, so much so that a Seattle trainer had to be called in to loosen it up.

“I needed to pitch today,” Iwakuma said after earning the win. “I felt responsible, especially after (Seattle) losing five in a row, so I needed to go out there.”

Texas (34-35) got its lone run on a solo homer by Brad Snyder in the second inning, giving the Rangers a 1-0 lead. It was Snyder’s first career homer.

“I’m not going to lie: I’ve been working for that first big-league homer for a long time,” said Snyder, the father of a young son whose own dad was watching the game on television back in Ohio. “It is a big sigh of relief to get that first one out of the way. Especially on Father’s Day, it’s something I’ll never forget.”

Seager, who already had a pair of singles, hit a two-out, two-run double in the fifth to put the Mariners ahead 2-1. He added another RBI double in the eighth for a 3-1 lead before scoring on Ackley’s RBI single. Seattle scored its final run on shortstop Brad Miller’s sacrifice fly in the eighth.

“We certainly weren’t trying to give him anything on the inside of the plate,” Texas manager Ron Washington said, “and when we did, he hit it.”

Seattle did most of its damage against Texas reliever Robbie Ross Jr., who gave up three runs off four hits before rookie Ben Rowen came on for him in the eighth. Rowen, making his major league debut, got three outs in the eighth to end Seattle’s three-run inning.

Texas starter Nick Martinez (1-4) went six innings, allowing two earned runs off nine hits.

Seattle first baseman Logan Morrison did not finish the game after suffering a laceration to his forehead in the fifth inning. Morrison slammed his bat into a dugout wall in disgust after a popout with two runners on base and took a shard of the broken bat off his left eyebrow. He underwent five stitches after the game.

“I obviously acted like a 3-year-old,” Morrison said after the game. “I apologized to my teammates and to (manager Lloyd McClendon). … I’m embarrassed. No matter how bad I’m playing, I can’t do that. You move on, and hopefully I can come back soon and start helping this team win games.”

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