Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Seattle 3, Texas 1
When: 10:10 PM ET, Friday, April 12, 2013
Where: Safeco Field, Seattle, Washington
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Bruce Dreckman, 1B - Clint Fagan, 2B - Gary Darling, 3B - Paul Emmel
Attendance: 15029

Mariners 3, Rangers 1:
Kyle Seager had a two-run double and Hisashi Iwakuma outpitched Japanese countrymate Yu Darvish as host Seattle downed Texas to snap a three-game losing skid.

Iwakuma (2-0) allowed one run and three hits in 6 2/3 innings and struck out six in his third consecutive strong outing. Tom Wilhelmsen pitched a perfect ninth for his fourth save.

Darvish (2-1) struck out eight and allowed three hits, all coming in Seattle’s three-run first inning. Ian Kinsler homered in the fourth for the Texas run.

Raul Ibanez delivered a run-scoring single in the first and Seager capped the uprising with a two-out double just inside the first-base line. Seattle’s next hit came in the seventh against reliever Jason Frasor.

Elvis Andrus and Adrian Beltre had eighth-inning singles to put runners on the corners but the threat ended when Mariners reliever Stephen Pryor got David Murphy to sharply line out to center.

GAME NOTEBOOK:
Iwakuma, who turned 32 on Friday, walked one for his only base on balls in 20 2/3 innings this season. … Kinsler and C A.J. Pierzynski each had two of Texas’ six hits. … Mariners OF Michael Morse is expected to be out three to seven days after breaking his right pinkie finger in Thursday’s game.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Texas   Seattle
Yu Darvish Player Hisashi Iwakuma
Loss W/L Win
6.0 IP 6.2
8 Strikeouts 6
3 Hits 3
4.50 ERA 1.35
Hitting
Texas   Seattle
Ian Kinsler Player Franklin Gutierrez
2 Hits 1
1 RBI 0
1 HR 0
5 TB 1
.500 Avg 1.000
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Texas 6 1 9 .182 10 7 1 2 1 0
Seattle 7 0 8 .241 14 8 3 1 0 0