Major League Baseball
Seattle 8, Minnesota 6
When: 2:10 PM ET, Sunday, April 11, 2021
Where: Target Field, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Temperature: 48°
Umpires: Home - Manny Gonzalez, 1B - Nick Mahrley, 2B - Lazaro Diaz, 3B - Adam Hamari
Attendance: 9792

Kyle Seager went 4 for 4 and hit two home runs, including a three-run shot in the top of the ninth inning, as the Seattle Mariners rallied from a six-run deficit to defeat the Minnesota Twins 8-6 Sunday afternoon in Minneapolis and take two of three games in the series.

Rookie Taylor Trammell also homered for Seattle, his second in as many games.

Minnesota's Byron Buxton went 3 for 4 with a double, home run and four RBIs.

The Mariners rallied in the ninth against Twins closer Alex Colome (0-1). Mitch Haniger and Ty France singled before Seager hit a 3-2 pitch over the wall in right-center field to give Seattle its first lead.

Seattle relievers Will Vest, Drew Steckenrider (1-1) and Rafael Montero combined for four hitless innings. Montero earned his second save of the season.

Trailing 6-0, Seager led off the sixth with a home run to right and Jose Marmolejos followed with a double high off the wall in right-center.

After Luis Torrens grounded a single into left field to put runners on the corners, Trammell went deep to right to make it 6-4.

That was it for Twins right-hander Matt Shoemaker, who allowed four runs on seven hits with one walk and seven strikeouts in five-plus innings.

The Mariners pulled within a run in the seventh as Ty France was hit by a pitch and Seager grounded a single into right to send France to third. France scored on Dylan Moore's groundout to make it 6-5.

Seattle right-hander Chris Flexen gave up six runs (five earned) on eight hits in five innings, with two walks and five strikeouts.

Nelson Cruz hit a sacrifice fly in the first to give the Twins an early lead. They scored three more in the third on Buxton's bases-loaded, two-run double and Max Kepler's sacrifice fly.

Cruz walked to lead off the fifth and Buxton hit the next pitch deep into the Twins' bullpen, just a few feet to the left of straightaway center, for a 6-0 lead.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Seattle   Minnesota
Chris Flexen Player Matt Shoemaker
No Decision W/L No Decision
5.0 IP 5.0
5 Strikeouts 7
8 Hits 7
9.00 ERA 7.20
Hitting
Seattle   Minnesota
Kyle Seager Player Byron Buxton
4 Hits 3
4 RBI 4
2 HR 1
10 TB 7
1.000 Avg .750
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Seattle 14 3 24 .359 15 12 8 1 0 1
Minnesota 8 1 13 .235 15 7 6 4 0 0