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Major League Baseball
Seattle 10, Detroit 2
When: 10:10 PM ET, Thursday, July 25, 2019
Where: T-Mobile Park, Seattle, Washington
Temperature: 78°
Umpires: Home - Ted Barrett, 1B - Lance Barksdale, 2B - Kerwin Danley, 3B - John Tumpane
Attendance: 18544

Tim Beckham hit a grand slam as the Seattle Mariners won consecutive games for the first time in a month by defeating the visiting Detroit Tigers 10-2 on Thursday night.

Kyle Seager also homered for the Mariners, who last won two in a row June 25-26 at Milwaukee.

Left-hander Wade LeBlanc (6-3) pitched six innings for the win, allowing two runs (one earned) on four hits with one walk and four strikeouts. Right-hander Erik Swanson served as the opener for Seattle, throwing two scoreless innings with three strikeouts and a walk before handing off to LeBlanc.

John Hicks homered for the Tigers, who lost their third in a row and are 2-11 since the All-Star break.

Tigers right-hander Drew VerHagen (1-1), making his first start of the season, went four innings and allowed seven runs (six earned) on six hits. He walked four, struck out four and hit a batter.

The Tigers opened the scoring in the third as Hicks, the first batter LeBlanc faced, hit an 0-1 changeup over the left-center field fence.

The Mariners took the lead in the bottom of the inning. Tim Lopes, making his first major league start, led off with a walk and advanced to third on J.P. Crawford's one-out single to right. Omar Narvaez walked on a 3-2 pitch to load the bases. Daniel Vogelbach then hit a potential double-play grounder to second baseman Niko Goodrum that was bobbled, tying the score and leaving the bases loaded. Beckham then hit an 0-2 pitch over the wall in left field, his 15th home run of the season, to give Seattle a 5-1 lead.

The Mariners scored twice more in the fourth as Lopes was hit in the helmet leading off, stole second and scored on Crawford's triple. Narvaez then hit a run-scoring, ground-rule double to right-center to make it 7-1.

The Tigers got a run back in the fifth after loading the bases with no outs on a Goodrum single, Hicks walk and error on second baseman Lopes. Jeimer Candelario's one-out single drove in Hicks before Miguel Cabrera grounded into an inning-ending double play.

Seager greeted left-hander Blaine Hardy by hitting the first pitch in the bottom of the inning over the wall in right-center, his eighth, to make it 8-2.

Vogelbach hit a two-run double in the eighth to cap the scoring.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Detroit   Seattle
Drew VerHagen Player Erik Swanson
Loss W/L No Decision
4.0 IP 2.0
4 Strikeouts 3
6 Hits 0
13.50 ERA 0.00
Hitting
Detroit   Seattle
John Hicks Player Kyle Seager
1 Hits 2
1 RBI 1
1 HR 1
4 TB 6
.333 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Detroit 5 1 8 .152 16 8 2 2 1 1
Seattle 9 2 21 .273 20 11 10 7 2 2