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

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 MolinaPlayer Josh Bard
3 Hits 2
2 RBI 0
0 HR 0
3 TB 3
.750 Avg .667
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Texas 12 0 15 .308 19 3 6 2 0 0
Seattle 6 1 10 .200 11 9 1 1 0 0
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