Texas placed OF Travis Jankowski on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to May 8, with a right hamstring strain and recalled C Sam Huff from Triple-A Round Rock. Without the deflection, the play at the plate would have been closer. Justin Topa and Juan Then each worked a scoreless inning of relief for Seattle.Īfter Murphy scored on France’s hit, Josh Smith’s throw from left field ricocheted off France’s stagnant bat on the second hop a few feet away from the plate as Sam Haggerty scored. Pollock had a sacrifice fly in the eighth. Ty France had a two-run single in the third that extended his hit streak to seven games. He allowed Murphy’s homer after AJ Pollock reached on third baseman Josh Jung’s throwing error, extending the inning. Heaney gave up four runs, three earned, in 6 2/3 innings as the Rangers’ three-game winning streak was snapped. “As badly as I wanted to homer, that’s for sure,” Murphy said. He was just as elated to finally grasp the Trident, the Mariners’ newest prop for the season to celebrate home runs. Murphy finished 2-for-3 with a double, a walk and two runs scored. It was the first long ball since Apfor the Seattle catcher, who was limited to 14 games last year because of injury. Murphy’s two-run homer in the seventh off Andrew Heaney (2-3) made it 4-0. “He’s been throwing the ball very well and we knew we had our hands full and it’s a good staff over there.” “Another good fastball like we saw last night and a big curve going,” Texas manager Bruce Bochy said. He allowed only two Rangers batters to reach scoring position as his ERA dropped to 2.62. Kirby (4-2) walked none and has only issued three free passes in his seven starts this season. “We are rolling right now, night after night.” “Our pitching is unbelievable right now,” Seattle manager Scott Servais said. The Mariners have limited the powerful Rangers to two runs in two games, though they lost the series opener 2-1. SEATTLE (AP) - George Kirby struck out nine in seven sharp innings, Tom Murphy hit his first homer in more than a year, and the Seattle Mariners beat the Texas Rangers 5-0 on Tuesday night.

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