J.P. Crawford and Julio Rodriguez hit house runs and rookie Bryan Woo pitched six scoreless innings because the Seattle Mariners defeated the visiting Oakland Athletics 7-0 on Monday.
The Mariners received their fourth straight sport and prevailed for the 12h time of their previous 13 to stay atop the American League West, a sport forward of each the Texas Rangers and the Houston Astros.
The cellar-dwelling A’s misplaced their third in a row and fell to 0-8 in opposition to Seattle this season.
Rodriguez completed 4-for-5 with three RBIs and three runs.
Woo (2-3), a right-hander making simply his second begin since an injured-list stint brought on by proper forearm irritation, allowed three hits, walked one and struck out 5. He received the A’s to hit into double performs in every of his final two innings.
The Mariners‘ Tayler Saucedo, Isaiah Campbell and Trent Thornton mixed for 3 innings of one-hit aid to finish the shutout.
Crawford homered main off the underside of the primary in opposition to Oakland left-hander Kyle Muller (1-5). It was the second time prior to now 4 days that Crawford went deep to open a sport.
The Mariners added three runs within the third.
Crawford lined a leadoff single to proper, and Rodriguez hit an RBI double to heart. A handed ball and a stroll to Eugenio Suarez put runners on the corners earlier than Teoscar Hernandez lined a single to heart to attain Rodriguez. Ty France’s single loaded the bases earlier than Dylan Moore’s fielder’s alternative made it 4-0.
Seattle tallied twice extra within the fourth as Crawford drew a one-out stroll and Rodriguez homered to heart, the third consecutive sport during which he went deep.
Muller allowed six runs on 9 hits over 4 innings, with three walks and 6 strikeouts.
Rodriguez beat out an infield single with one out within the sixth, superior to second on a wild pitch and raced house on Hernandez’s two-out single up the center to cap the scoring.
—Area Stage Media
