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Vazquez leads Rangers to beat M's
09:05 PM PDT on Tuesday, July 29, 2008
ARLINGTON, Texas - Ramon Vazquez atoned for three errors with a two-run double in the ninth inning to give the Texas Rangers to an 11-10 victory over the Seattle Mariners.
Texas, which wasted a seven-run lead after three innings, trailed 10-9 in the bottom of the ninth. But Marlon Byrd and Chris Davis singled off Seattle closer J.J. Putz (2-4).
Byrd was forced at third on Gerald Laird's groundout while attempting to bunt, but Vazquez's double to right center drove in Davis and Laird.
In the top of the ninth, Jamie Burke's RBI single tied it for the Mariners, and pinch-runner Jarrod Washburn crossed the plate with the go-ahead run on a throwing error by Vazquez at third base.
Texas closer C.J. Wilson (1-2) allowed a single to Jose Lopez leading off the ninth and hit Kenji Johjima with a pitch. Johjima limped to the bench and Washburn, a pitcher, came on to run.
Miguel Cairo's sacrifice bunt advanced the runners to second and third. Burke hit a slow grounder to Vazquez, who threw wildly to first as Lopez and Washburn both scored.
Byrd homered and drove in four runs for the Rangers.
Mariners right fielder Ichiro Suzuki got his 3,000th professional hit between the major leagues and the Japanese League with a first-inning single. Suzuki went 2-for-5 to raise his average to .298.
Suzuki hit a soft liner to left-center on the game's first pitch from Luis Mendoza and added an RBI single sixth.
Suzuki has 1,723 hits in 1,224 games during his eight seasons with the Mariners and had 1,278 hits over 951 games in nine seasons with the Orix Blue Wave of Japan's Pacific League.
Vazquez, Laird, Milton Bradley and Josh Hamilton all had three hits for the Rangers, who compensated for a season-high five errors with 18 hits.
Mendoza allowed six runs - five earned - and nine hits in 5 1-3 innings to the lowest-scoring team in the AL.
All-Star shortstop Michael Young was in the Rangers' lineup despite a small fracture in his right ring finger and went 0-for-4. He was hurt in the first inning of Monday night's game and was expected to miss at least a week, but on Tuesday he took batting practice and fielded ground balls before hitting second in the Texas lineup.
Lopez homered and had three hits for the Mariners. Rookie Bryan LaHair had his second career homer in two games.
The Rangers took a 2-0 lead in the second against starter Carlos Silva on Byrd's RBI double and Laird's run-scoring single. David Murphy's RBI groundout got the scoring started in the third, and Byrd's three-run blast - his sixth - stretched Texas' advantage to 6-0.
Silva allowed six runs and seven hits in 2 1-3 innings before he was replaced by Roy Corcoran.
Vazquez greeted Corcoran with an RBI single to make it 7-0, capping a five-run third.
Seattle came back with a three-run fourth, all scoring with two outs. Jaime Burke's infield single drove in the first run and the second crossed when Vazquez committed a throwing error on the play. Yuniesky Betancourt followed with an RBI single to make it 7-3.
Texas' offense kept up the pressure, getting an RBI double from Bradley in the fourth and a run-scoring single from Vazquez in the fifth to stretch the lead to 9-3.
Suzuki's RBI single highlighted a three-run sixth that made it 9-6 and Lopez and LaHair led off the Seattle seventh with consecutive homers off Jamey Wright.
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