Seattle 8, Chi. Cubs 1
When: 10:10 PM ET, Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Where: Safeco Field, Seattle, Washington
Temperature:
73°
Umpires:
Home -
Mike Reilly, 1B -
Chad Fairchild, 2B -
Eric Cooper, 3B -
Bill Miller
Attendance:
31394
By SportsDirect Inc.
Cliff Lee pitched his second consecutive complete game and Michael Saunders homered and drove in four runs as the Seattle Mariners earned an 8-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs for their sixth consecutive win Wednesday night.
Lee (6-3) allowed nine hits and had nine strikeouts and no walks. Lee, who has not walked a batter in four consecutive games, has 76 strikeouts and four walks for a staggering 19-to-1 strikeouts-to-walks ratio.
The left-hander allowed Tyler Colvin’s ninth homer in the second inning, but nothing else.
Seattle got to Cubs starter Randy Wells (3-6) for four runs in the fourth inning. Wells allowed six runs on 10 hits over six innings.
Jose Lopez, Franklin Gutierrez and Josh Wilson hit consecutive singles off Wells to load the bases. Casey Kotchman’s single drove in Lopez to tie the score. Wells then walked Saunders, scoring a run and Ichiro Suzuki hit a two-run single to shallow center for a 4-1 lead.
The Mariners, who last won six in row in April 2009, added two runs in the sixth on an RBI double by Saunders, who later scored on Chone Figgins’ fielder’s choice.
Saunders hit a two-run homer, his fifth, in the eighth inning off Sean Marshall.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
| Chi. Cubs |
|
Seattle |
|
Randy Wells
|
Player |
Cliff Lee
|
|
Loss |
W/L |
Win |
|
6.0 |
IP |
9.0 |
|
3 |
Strikeouts |
9 |
|
10 |
Hits |
9 |
|
9.00 |
ERA |
1.00 |
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Chi. Cubs
|
9 |
1 |
14 |
.265 |
20 |
9 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
| Seattle
|
11 |
1 |
15 |
.324 |
13 |
5 |
8 |
4 |
1 |
1 |
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