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M’s reaper: Texas’ Odor belts walk-off HR
- Updated: August 31, 2016
ARLINGTON — The Rangers, with still another dramatic come-from-behind-victory, have dealt a further blow to the Mariners’ fading postseason hopes.
Rougned Odor smashed a two-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning off rookie closer Edwin Diaz to lift the Rangers to a walk-off, 8-7 victory over the Mariners on Tuesday night at Globe Life Park. The Rangers are a Major League-best 30-8 in one-run games.
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 in the seventh — crushed a 2-2 pitch over the center-field wall for his 25th home run of the season.
“I went to the the plate knowing I had a chance to redeem myself for a couple of things earlier,” Odor said. “I saw Beltre at first and I knew I had a chance to do something. I was excited because it was a walk-off home run. That shows the spirit and the fight of this club.”
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 in the division and four back in the Wild Card race.
The Mariners trailed, 4-0, through three innings and were going up against Cole Hamels, who began the night leading the American League with the lowest ERA. But the Mariners rallied with six runs off Hamels in the fourth and fifth inning to take a 6-4 lead.
The Rangers, despite Odor’s baserunning mistake, tied it up in the seventh before the Mariners regained the lead on Robinson Cano’s sacrifice fly in the eighth.
Diaz struck out Carlos Beltran with two on and two out in the eighth, but couldn’t close it out in the ninth as he suffered his first blown save in 12 chances.
“He’s our best guy,” Seattle manager Scott Servais said of going for the two-inning save from the 22-year-old. “He has been since he’s arrived here. We left it all out there tonight.”
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