Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Seattle 8, Toronto 7
When: 10:10 PM ET, Monday, April 11, 2011
Where: Safeco Field, Seattle, Washington
Temperature: 50°
Umpires: Home - Scott Barry, 1B - John Hirschbeck, 2B - Wally Bell, 3B - Lazaro Diaz
Attendance: 13056

Luis Rodriguez delivered a two-out, two-run walk-off hit as the Seattle Mariners rallied from seven runs down to earn an 8-7 victory over the visiting Toronto Blue Jays on Monday.

Justin Smoak capped a five-run rally in the eighth inning with a two-run single and Milton Bradley homered for the Mariners, who snapped a seven-game slide.

The Toronto bullpen began to make the game a lot more exciting in the eighth when it allowed three straight runs on bases-loaded walks and a two-run single to Smoak to allow the Mariners to get to within 7-6. Shawn Camp came on as the fourth pitcher in the inning and got Miguel Olivo to ground into a double play to end the rally, but Seattle wasn‘t done.

Michael Saunders led off the ninth with a double off Camp (0-1) and moved up on a sacrifice. Ichiro Suzuki was intentionally walked and stole second in front of Rodriguez, who worked a 10-pitch at-bat before driving a low pitch out of the strike zone to deep right-center.

The wild finish bailed out Felix Hernandez, who had an uncharacteristically poor start. The reigning Cy Young winner was pounded for seven runs and 12 hits in six innings.

Rodriguez came into the game to replace Chone Figgins, who left after three innings with a thumb injury.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Toronto   Seattle
Jesse Litsch Player Felix Hernandez
No Decision W/L No Decision
5.0 IP 6.0
4 Strikeouts 6
5 Hits 12
0.00 ERA 10.50
Hitting
Toronto   Seattle
Edwin Encarnacion Player Justin Smoak
3 Hits 2
0 RBI 2
0 HR 0
4 TB 3
.750 Avg .667
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Toronto 14 1 20 .368 21 9 6 4 1 1
Seattle 11 1 16 .314 26 7 8 11 3 1