Five runs in one inning, and T-Mobile Park emptied out early
Corey Seager did not wait. First inning, first real swing of consequence, and Bryce Miller’s pitch was gone. Texas beat Seattle 10-5 on Tuesday night, and the shape of the thing was set before most of the crowd had settled into their seats.
The fifth is where it got out of hand. Wyatt Langford went deep for two. Danny Jansen followed with three more. Five runs in a single frame, 9-3 on the board, and a Mariners bullpen already reaching for whoever was warm.
Cal Quantrill gave the Rangers six innings of the unglamorous kind: three runs, five hits, a walk, four strikeouts. That is his fourth win in five starts. He sits at 8-5.
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72-73, and somehow still breathing
Texas are a game under .500 and very much alive. Two straight wins put the Rangers (72-73) two back of Houston (73-71) in the AL West and a game and a half behind Cleveland (74-72) for the last wild card.
Seattle’s math looks worse by the day. The Mariners (67-78) came into this homestand as reigning division champions and have lost four of the first five. Seven games behind Houston. Six and a half off the wild card, with four clubs stacked in front of them before Cleveland even comes into view.
Miller lasted three and two-thirds. Four runs, three walks, a seventh straight defeat going back to July 9. Whatever is wrong has not been fixed.
474 feet, and it barely mattered
The one thing Seattle fans will remember happened in the fourth. Lazaro Montes, a rookie, hit a ball 474 feet over the J-Rod Squad section in right-center. It came down in the club seats between the first and second decks.
No Mariner has hit one further at T-Mobile Park since Statcast started measuring in 2015. It ties the longest home run anywhere in the majors this season. Three runs came in with it, and Seattle were within 4-3.
Then the fifth happened.
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