Julio Rodríguez and the Mariners stay red hot with win over Oakland
SEATTLE (AP) — Julio Rodríguez stored up his torrid August with 4 extra hits together with a two-run homer and an RBI double, J.P. Crawford hit his fifth leadoff homer and the Seattle Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics 7-0 on Monday night time.
Seattle received its fourth straight and for the twelfth time up to now 13 video games as the most well liked workforce in baseball stored rolling behind its abruptly unstoppable offense. The Mariners have 20 wins in August matching probably the most wins in a month in franchise historical past with two video games remaining.
It was Rodríguez and the bats main the best way but once more.
Seattle scored at the very least six runs for the twelfth time in 18 video games, and whereas a lot of the lineup contributed it was the highest of the order doing a lot of the injury in opposition to the lowly A’s.
Crawford hit his twelfth homer on the second pitch of the underside of the primary inning from Kyle Muller. Eugenio Suárez sandwiched a pair of doubles round and stroll and scored as soon as. Teoscar Hernández had a pair of RBI singles.
Rodríguez scorched a 112 mph double within the third inning to attain Crawford from first base and hit his twenty fourth homer, a 420-foot drive within the fourth inning. For good measure, Rodríguez beat out a pair of infield grounders for hits within the sixth and eighth innings.
Rodríguez prolonged his hitting streak to a career-best 13 video games and homered for the third straight recreation. During his hitting streak, Rodríguez is hitting .516 (32 of 62) with 5 homers, six doubles and 21 RBIs.
Seattle hoped rookie starter Bryan Woo might make it into the fifth inning whereas nonetheless on a restricted pitch rely after lacking time this month with forearm irritation. Woo (2-3) bettered something the Mariners might have hoped, scattering three hits over six innings. Woo struck out 5 and wanted simply 69 pitches to match his longest profession outing.
It was Seattle’s thirteenth shutout this season, tied for second with Cleveland and two again of Atlanta. Oakland was shut out for the 14th time.
Muller (1-5) began for the primary time since July 1 for the A’s, having made his final two appearances for Oakland in reduction after spending time within the minors. Muller struggled to get via the fourth, giving up six runs and 9 hits.
RECORD MONTH
Seattle received 20 video games in a month for the seventh time, the primary because the 2001 season when the Mariners received a record-tying 116 video games. Seattle received 20 video games in a month 4 instances that season.
UP NEXT
Athletics: LHP Ken Waldichuk (2-7, 6.05) will take his flip as a standard starter for the seventeenth time this season. Waldichuk has struggled with house runs recently, permitting 5 lengthy balls in 10 2/3 innings mixed over his final two begins.
Mariners: RHP George Kirby (10-8, 3.28) will make his first house begin since throwing 9 shutout innings in opposition to Baltimore on Aug. 12 in a recreation Seattle misplaced 1-0 in further innings. Kirby allowed three runs and eight hits, however struck out 9 in his final begin in opposition to the White Sox.
