Diaz, Mariners fall after rallying vs. Rangers

ARLINGTON — Rougned Odor hit a two-run home run off Mariners reliever Edwin Diaz to give the Rangers a walk-off, 8-7 victory in the ninth inning at Globe Life Park on Tuesday.

It was the Rangers’ 39th come-from-behind victory and their sixth walk-off win. Adrian Beltre started the rally with a leadoff single for his third hit of the game before Odor — who earlier in the game ran himself into a potentially costly out — crushed a 2-2 pitch over the center-field wall for his 25th home run of the season.

The Rangers still lead the Astros by 8 1/2 games in the American League West, but the Mariners, with their fourth straight loss, are now 10 1/2 games behind.

The Mariners, going up against Rangers starter Cole Hamels, trailed, 4-0, after three innings. Hamels entered the game with the lowest ERA in the American League, but the Mariners scored a season-high six earned runs off him in the fourth and fifth innings.

The Mariners had 11 hits. They had just one extra-base hit but were 4-for-12 with runners in scoring position, and they went ahead in the eighth on Robinson Cano’s sacrifice fly.

Hamels retired 10 of the first 11 batters he faced through three scoreless innings, allowing a second-inning double to Dae-Ho Lee. Hamels faced 14 more batters, and 10 reached base, on four walks and six singles.

The Mariners scored two in the fourth, with both runs pushed across by walks. They added four in the fifth inning, including three coming across on three straight one-out RBI singles by Kyle Seager (an additional run scoring on an error by right fielder Carlos Gomez), Lee and — after Alex Claudio came in to pitch — Leonys Martin.

The Mariners used five relievers behind starter James Paxton, who …

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