Seattle 5, Oakland 2
When: 9:40 PM ET, Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Where: RingCentral Coliseum, Oakland, California
Temperature:
81°
Umpires:
Home -
Will Little, 1B -
Greg Gibson, 2B -
Ryan Wills, 3B -
Rob Drake
Attendance:
4246
By Field Level Media
Marco Gonzales won his eighth straight decision as the Seattle Mariners defeated the host Oakland Athletics 5-2 on Tuesday night.
J.P. Crawford homered with one out in the ninth for the Mariners (82-69), who have won the first two games of the four-game series to pull even with the A's (82-69) for second place in the American League's West Division. Seattle and Oakland are three games back in the race for the AL's second and final wild-card playoff berth.
Gonzales (9-5) went six innings and allowed two runs on four hits, with the runs coming via solo homers by Matt Olson and Starling Marte. The left-hander walked one and struck out three.
Right-hander Drew Steckenrider pitched the ninth for his 10th save of the season.
A's lefty Paul Blackburn (1-3) gave up four runs -- three earned -- on six hits over four innings. He walked one and fanned five.
Olson gave the A's a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first, hitting a two-out homer to right-center field on a 3-2 count. It was his career-high 37th homer of the season, surpassing the 36 he hit in 2019.
The Mariners tied it in the second as Jake Bauers was hit by a pitch with one out and Tom Murphy grounded a single into right field. Both runners advanced on a groundout by Jake Fraley and Bauers scored on Blackburn's errant pickoff attempt.
Seattle took the lead with a three-run fourth. Jarred Kelenic led off with a triple to center and Fraley drew a two-out walk. Dylan Moore hit a two-run triple to left-center and Crawford grounded a single to center to make it 4-1.
Marte led off the bottom of the inning with a homer to center on a 2-1 pitch.
Marte doubled with two outs in the eighth off right-hander Paul Sewald and the Mariners intentionally walked Olson to bring the go-ahead run to the plate, but Sewald struck out Matt Chapman to end the inning.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Seattle
|
9 |
1 |
19 |
.257 |
14 |
11 |
4 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
| Oakland
|
6 |
2 |
14 |
.182 |
12 |
5 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
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