The Sounders take a four-match unbeaten streak into Houston, where Clint Dempsey will get his first start as a Sounder. Eddie Johnson is suspended a Obafemi Martins is hurting.
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The Mariners didn’t have a hit through 5.1 innings Friday,, but rallied and pulled out a 3-1 win. Now Texas will attempt to feast, as they often have done, against Felix Hernandez.
Kyle Seager ripped a two-run homer in the top of the eighth, Yoervis Medina recorded a clutch, bottom-of-the-inning strikeout of Ian Kinsler and Danny Farquhar threw a perfect ninth as the Mariners held on for an improbable 3-1 victory over the Rangers at Texas Friday night. Seattle snapped a two-game losing streak and improved to
As the Seahawks prepared to bang helmets at 7 p.m. Saturday with another Super Bowl favorite, the Denver Broncos, in the first home game of the preseason, coach Pete Carroll was unwilling Friday to offer a timetable for the return of the biggest missing player, WR Percy Harvin.
The Mariners get another series against Adrian Beltre, who’s been a huge success everywhere he’s played but Seattle. He’s hitting .353 against the Mariners this year.
After the Mariners squandered a bases-loaded opportunity in the fifth inning, Tampa Bay jumped on Joe Saunders for four runs in their half en route to a 7-1 romp at Tropicana Field Thursday night. The Mariners did almost nothing offensively — five hits — except for Raul Ibanez’s 25th home run.
A 5-4 walk-off loser Wednesday night, the Mariners still have a chance to come away with a series win Thursday. Seattle is 15-17-6 in series this season.
Recently called up from AAA Durham, Jason Bourgeois ended a nightmarish ninth for Danny Farquhar and the Mariners Wednesday with a bases-loaded, walk-off single that gave Tampa Bay a 5-4 victory over the Mariners at Tropicana Field. The loss snapped Seattle’s two-game winning streak and ended the Rays’ season-longest stumble at six in a row.
Seattle’s Aaron Harang has struggled over the past few weeks and is winless since July 22. He has allowed 14 earned runs in his past two starting assignments.
Rookie Brad Miller’s two homers led a 12-hit attack and Seattle had just enough pitching to defeat Tampa Bay 5-4 Tuesday night at Tropicana Field, a good start to nine-game road trip. The Mariners (55-63) won their second in a row and handed the AL East’s second-place Rays their sixth consecutive defeat.