Leody Taveras followed with a single and Kole Calhoun walked. Nathaniel Lowe led off with his 14th homer. Mariners reliever Diego Castillo ran into trouble in the ninth.
I think every manager appreciates those type of guys." He’s just always going to keep you in the game," Servais said. "The thing with (Flexen), he’s never going to wow you. He escaped a bases-loaded jam in the third with only one run allowed and yielded Adolis García’s 18th homer on the first pitch of the sixth. Seattle starter Chris Flexen won his fifth straight decision and extended his streak of allowing three runs or fewer to 11 consecutive starts.įlexen (7-8) pitched six innings, giving up two runs and four hits. Carlos Santana added an RBI groundout in the seventh. Raleigh’s RBI single in the fourth drove in France, and the Mariners added another run in the inning when Eugenio Suárez scampered home on a wild pitch. France has homered in three of his past five games, including Seattle’s last one before the All-Star break when he went deep off Otto (4-7) in Texas. "We play so many of them that when the time comes we don’t fold into that pressure," France said.įrance singled in his first two at-bats, but it was his solo shot to center field in the fifth inning off starter Glenn Otto that gave the Mariners a 3-1 lead.
The last time the Mariners lost a one-run game was June 26 against the Los Angeles Angels. Seattle also won its eighth straight game decided by one run and is 22-12 on the season.
But Texas was a welcome visitor as the Mariners won their sixth straight over the Rangers and improved to 9-2 against them this season. Erik Swanson escaped a ninth-inning jam and Seattle won for the 15th time in 18 games, a stretch of success interrupted over the weekend when the Mariners were swept at home by AL West-leading Houston following a 14-game winning streak.