Lopez's 2 homers lead Seattle past Oakland
Seattle Mariners' Jose Lopez, right, is congratulated by teammate Felix Hernandez after Lopez hit a three-run home run. By Associated Press
SEATTLE (AP) - Jose Lopez ignited a pair of five-run innings for Seattle with two homers, Rob Johnson added his first career home run and the Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics 10-8 on Friday night.
Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki also added another milestone to his impressive resume as the Mariners won for just the second time in the last 16 games. Lopez hit a three-run shot in the third, capping Seattle's first five-run inning. His shot into the Oakland bullpen just eluded the leaping glove of Oakland left fielder Travis Buck, who twice in the inning came up short diving for sinking fly balls. After Oakland took a 6-5 lead in the top of the fifth, Lopez opened the bottom of the inning with a solo shot that also landed in the A's bullpen. It was Lopez's second career multihomer game. He was intentionally walked in the sixth to a chorus of boos. Johnson capped Seattle's second five-run inning with a two-run shot off Oakland reliever Jerry Blevins. Luis Valbuena also had three hits and an RBI for Seattle. Suzuki matched Lou Gehrig's major league record with his eighth season of at least 200 hits and 100 runs. Suzuki scored for the 100th time in the third inning on Raul Ibanez's RBI single. With 210 hits, he achieved the 200-hit, 100-run mark for the eighth consecutive season. Gehrig reached those benchmarks in 1927-28, 1930-32, 1934 and 1936-37. The offensive outburst made a winner of Brandon Morrow, who was all over the strike zone in his final appearance of the season. Making just his fifth start, Morrow threw a career-high 114 pitches and matched his highs with five walks and eight strike outs. Morrow (3-4) also allowed a solo homer to Jack Cust in the second and a three-run shot to Buck with two-out in the fourth. Buck added an RBI single in the eighth as well. But the hard-throwing Morrow, who made the transition to being a starter in early August, came up with key strikeouts with runners in scoring position in the second and fifth innings. Roy Corcoran pitched the ninth for his third save in six chances. Oakland starter Sean Gallagher (2-3) mowed through the Mariners lineup in the first two innings, only to struggle through one of the worst performances in his young career. Gallagher was tagged for 10 hits and eight earned runs, failing to finish the fifth inning after Miguel Cairo's two-out double scored Jeremy Reed to give Seattle a 7-6 lead. Gallagher gave up a career-high 11 hits and 10 earned runs last month against Minnesota, but had settled down in his last three starts, giving up just four total runs. |
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