Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Texas 6, Seattle 0
When: 10:10 PM ET, Thursday, August 5, 2010
Where: Safeco Field, Seattle, Washington
Temperature: 74°
Umpires: Home - Marvin Hudson, 1B - Derryl Cousins, 2B - Jim Joyce, 3B - Jim Wolf
Attendance: 22624

David Murphy hit a two-run homer to break a scoreless tie and Tommy Hunter and three relievers combined on an eight-hit shutout as the Texas Rangers earned a 6-0 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Thursday night.

Nelson Cruz, Elvis Andrus and Bengie Molina each drove in a run for Texas, which beat the Mariners for the 10th time in 13 games this season after capturing the three-game series.

Hunter (9-1) rebounded from his first loss of the campaign by allowing eight hits in 6 1/3 scoreless innings for the win. Matt Harrison, Darren O’Day and Neftali Feliz followed and combined for 2 2/3 perfect innings.

Murphy, who gave Texas a 6-5 lead with a three-run homer in Wednesday’s 11-6 rout, belted his seventh blast for a 2-0 lead in the seventh. Andrus had an RBI single after Felix Hernandez walked Mike Moreland.

Texas scored three runs in the eighth, including an RBI double by Cruz.

Hernandez (7-9) allowed three runs on eight hits in 6 2/3 innings in suffering his fourth consecutive loss. The right-hander retired 14 in a row at one point, but the Rangers got to him in the seventh.

Seattle was 0-for-10 with runners in scoring position.

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Texas   Seattle
Tommy Hunter Player Felix Hernandez
Win W/L Loss
6.1 IP 6.2
5 Strikeouts 3
8 Hits 8
0.00 ERA 4.05
Hitting
Texas   Seattle
Vladimir GuerreroPlayer Chone Figgins
2 Hits 2
0 RBI 0
0 HR 0
2 TB 2
.500 Avg .667
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Texas 11 1 16 .297 14 7 5 3 0 1
Seattle 8 0 10 .235 24 7 0 2 0 1
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