ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Randy Arozarena hit a three-run homer after Seattle lost starting pitcher Emerson Hancock to a hand injury in the second inning, and the Mariners beat the Tampa Bay Rays 8-2 on Sunday to snap a five-game losing streak.<\/p>\n
Hancock took a 107.2 mph one-hopper off his pitching hand on his first pitch to Yandy Diaz but recovered to throw him out at first. The right-hander stayed in the game and retired Jonathan Aranda on a flyout on his second pitch before striking out Junior Caminero.<\/p>\n
Hancock then left after issuing a two-out walk to Victor Mesa Jr. in the second on his 19th pitch. Jos\u00e9 A. Ferrer (2-1) needed one pitch to end the inning before striking out two in a scoreless third. Four relievers followed, with Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz pitching the ninth to close it out.<\/p>\n
Seattle took a 3-0 lead against Ian Seymour (6-2) in the second on Victor Robles’ bases-loaded sacrifice fly and J.P. Crawford’s two-out, two-run double.<\/p>\n
Weston Wilson hit<\/a> a solo homer \u2014 his first as a Mariner and second of the season \u2014 with one out in the fourth. Seymour left with two outs and two on and Arozarena greeted<\/a> Cole Sulser with his 11th homer to cap the four-run inning for a 7-0 lead.<\/p>\n Buddy Kennedy and Crawford had back-to-back doubles off Craig Kimbrel with one out in the ninth for the final margin.<\/p>\n Diaz singled leading off the eighth against Eduard Bazardo and Aranda followed with his 14th homer for the Rays’ runs.<\/p>\n Seymour allowed six runs in 3 1\/3 innings, surrendering six hits with three walks. Sulser got two outs and was charged with a run.<\/p>\n Tampa Bay (57-37) has the best record in the AL heading to the All-Star Game.<\/p>\n Seattle (48-49) lost three straight to the Marlins to start a 1-5 trip.<\/p>\n Evan Longoria had his No. 3 jersey retired in a pregame ceremony, one day after being inducted into the Rays’ Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n The Rays begin a three-game road series against the Red Sox on Friday, while the Mariners host the Giants for three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Randy Arozarena hit a three-run homer after Seattle lost starting pitcher Emerson Hancock…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2377],"tags":[14257,5,25143,7882,847,18522,764,9635,21295,1400,307,1904,4682,93077,4,9500,9501,9496,9497,22871,83366,1456,297,619,2550,68,2551,2549,16204,7986,15448,3348],"class_list":["post-750396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-rays","tag-andres-munoz","tag-baseball","tag-buddy-kennedy","tag-cole-sulser","tag-craig-kimbrel","tag-eduard-bazardo","tag-emerson-hancock","tag-evan-longoria","tag-ian-seymour","tag-j-p-crawford","tag-jonathan-aranda","tag-jose-a-ferrer","tag-junior-caminero","tag-mariners-rays-score-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40780-ap-florida-sports-only","tag-product-40820-ap-washington-state-sports-only","tag-randy-arozarena","tag-rays","tag-seattle","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabayrays","tag-victor-mesa-jr","tag-victor-robles","tag-weston-wilson","tag-yandy-diaz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}