Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Texas 6, Seattle 1
When: 9:10 PM ET, Saturday, September 18, 2010
Where: Safeco Field, Seattle, Washington
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Gary Cederstrom, 1B - Ed Hickox, 2B - Marty Foster, 3B - Jim Wolf
Attendance: 20843
Where: Safeco Field, Seattle, Washington
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Gary Cederstrom, 1B - Ed Hickox, 2B - Marty Foster, 3B - Jim Wolf
Attendance: 20843
Cliff Lee allowed six hits in eight innings, while Bengie Molina and Jeff Francoeur drove in two runs apiece as the Texas Rangers earned a 6-1 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday night.
Lee (12-8) allowed just one run - on Franklin Gutierrez's 12th homer in the seventh - and had eight strikeouts with one walk.
Francoeur had a two-run single in the fourth and Molina had a two-run single in the sixth.
Michael Young and David Murphy had RBI singles for the Rangers.
Jason Vargas (9-11) lost his sixth consecutive decision, allowing five runs on nine hits in six innings.
Ichiro Suzuki had two hits and has 193, tops in the majors.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Texas | Seattle | |
| Cliff Lee | Player | Jason Vargas |
| Win | W/L | Loss |
| 8.0 | IP | 6.0 |
| 8 | Strikeouts | 3 |
| 6 | Hits | 9 |
| 1.12 | ERA | 7.50 |
Hitting
| Texas | Seattle | |
| Bengie Molina | Player | Josh Bard |
| 3 | Hits | 2 |
| 2 | RBI | 0 |
| 0 | HR | 0 |
| 3 | TB | 3 |
| .750 | Avg | .667 |
Team Stats Summary