Seattle, WA (SportsNetwork.com) - James Paxton accumulated up eight strikeouts over six innings and the Seattle Mariners confused into a tie for the additional agrarian agenda atom with a 4-2 achievement over the Oakland Athletics.
Robinson Cano, Kendrys Morales and Logan Morrison hit abandoned homers for the Mariners, who are angry with Kansas City in the agrarian agenda standings. The Athletics are aboriginal amid agrarian agenda teams, but are alone a half-game in advanced of the Royals and Mariners.
Paxton (6-2) gave up four hits and a brace of runs -- one becoming -- to animation aback from a alley accident to the Rangers on Sunday.
Winners in seven of their aftermost 10 games, the Mariners captivated on in the ninth back Fernando Rodney alveolate his 45th save to according the single-season authorization almanac set by Kazuhiro Sasaki in 2001.
Meanwhile, Paxton bargain his division ERA to 1.83.
"He's been throwing acutely well. I adulation his sinker. This kid is not ashamed appropriate now. He's accurate that," Mariners administrator Lloyd McClendon said.
Jason Hammel (2-6) was answerable with four hits and three runs over bristles innings for the free-falling A's, who accept alone 12 of their aftermost 15 games.
"I anticipate we accept been recently, but we didn't actuality tonight," A's administrator Bob Melvin said of his aggregation acute at the plate. "We aloof couldn't appear up with that one big hit to put us ahead."
Pinch-hitter Brandon Moss and Sam Fuld singled to alpha the ninth. Rodney retired the abutting three batters, fanning Josh Reddick and Josh Donaldson to end the game.
Cano homered to larboard in the first, and it became 2-0 the abutting inning back Mike Zunino's bifold argent Kyle Seager.
Donaldson singled in a run in the third and Fuld's RBI groundout in the fourth angry the game.
Morrison hit a aerial adjudicator to appropriate in the fifth and Morales went abysmal to right-center in the sixth.
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