SEATTLE 4
TEXAS 3
SEATTLE 鈥� Kyle Seager hit a tie-breaking home run in the eighth inning and the Seattle Mariners rallied late to beat the Texas Rangers 4-3 Sunday.
Down 3-0, the Mariners scored three times in the seventh. Seager connected with one out in the eighth off Sam Dyson (0-4) for his second homer of the season.
Marc Rzepczynski (1-0) got one out for the win. Edwin Diaz worked a perfect ninth for his sixth save.
Texas starter Andrew Cashner was pulled after issuing a leadoff walk to Seager in the seventh. Reliever Jose Leclerc got two outs but issued three walks, including a bases-loaded pass to Jean Segura.
Pinch hitter Danny Valencia followed by driving in two runs with a bloop single off Alex Claudio that made it 3-all.
Cashner gave up four hits and three walks.
Making his first start in place of the injured James Paxton, who has a strained forearm, lefty Dillon Overton gave up one earned run over 3 1/3 innings.
Overton was lifted for Christian Bergman, recalled from Triple-A Tacoma earlier in the day. Bergman allowed a run and struck out two over 3 2/3 innings.
With Paxton, Felix Hernandez and Drew Smyly on the disabled list, the Mariners are currently without most of its rotation. The Rangers appeared ready to capitalize when Carlos Gomez gave Texas the lead in the first inning with a sacrifice fly, then Shin-Soo Choo followed in the second with an RBI groundout to make it 2-0.
Delino DeShields added a sacrifice fly in the seventh.
ROSTER MOVES
Rangers: LHP Dario Alvarez (1-0) was optioned to Triple-A Round Rock. To fill his spot, the Rangers recalled RHP Austin Bibens-Dirkx from Round Rock 鈥� at 32, it鈥檚 his first time in the majors after 12 seasons in the minors.
Mariners: RHP Rob Whalen was optioned to Tacoma and RHP Shae Simmons was moved to the 60-day DL.
TRAINER鈥橲 ROOM
Mariners: Hernandez (2-2) is expected to begin playing catch Monday as he works back from right shoulder bursitis that sidelined him in late April. ... RHP Steve Cishek (hip) will report to Tacoma on Monday to begin a rehab assignment. Cishek has yet to pitch in the big leagues this season following off-season hip surgery.
UP NEXT
Rangers: RHP Nick Martinez (0-1) will make his third start of the season when Texas opens a two-game series Monday at San Diego. In his last outing, he got dinged for seven runs (six earned) over 5 1/3 innings in a 10-1 loss to the Astros.
Mariners: RHP Hisashi Iwakuma (0-2), who took a comebacker off his left knee in his previous start, will have his start Tuesday in Philadelphia pushed back to Thursday in Toronto. As a result, LHP Ariel Miranda (3-2) will start in his place when the Mariners open a two-game interleague series against the Phillies.
