Seattle 4, Cleveland 1
When: 10:10 PM ET, Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Where: Safeco Field, Seattle, Washington
Temperature:
55°
Umpires:
Home -
Angel Campos, 1B -
Dan Iassogna, 2B -
Dale Scott, 3B -
Bill Miller
Attendance:
11343
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Mariners 4, Indians 1: Chone Figgins and Ichiro Suzuki homered in the first inning and Jason Vargas tossed seven strong innings as Seattle handed Cleveland its first road loss.
Vargas (2-1) allowed one run on four hits with seven strikeouts, and Brandon League worked a perfect ninth inning for his fifth save.
Figgins hit his seventh career leadoff homer off Derek Lowe (2-1), and Suzuki added to the lead with his first home run.
Cleveland, which was looking to open 5-0 on the road for the first time in 14 seasons, fell behind 3-0 when Lowe walked Jesus Montero with the bases loaded in the second inning.
Lowe threw 113 pitches in 4 1/3 innings, giving up four runs on eight hits and six walks.
The Indians cut the lead to 3-1 on Jason Kipnis' sacrifice fly in the third inning before the Mariners added an insurance run in the fourth on Dustin Ackley’s run-scoring single.
GAME NOTEBOOK: Cleveland shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera, who was placed on the bereavement list Tuesday following a family death, missed his second game. … The Indians scored eight or more runs in each of its first four road games. … League has converted all five of his save opportunities this season.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Cleveland |
|
Seattle |
Derek Lowe
|
Player |
Jason Vargas
|
Loss |
W/L |
Win |
4.1 |
IP |
7.0 |
0 |
Strikeouts |
7 |
8 |
Hits |
4 |
8.31 |
ERA |
1.29 |
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
Cleveland
|
4 |
0 |
5 |
.138 |
12 |
9 |
1 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
Seattle
|
8 |
2 |
15 |
.276 |
16 |
3 |
4 |
7 |
0 |
1 |