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Trip to Cleveland just the remedy for Seager
- Updated: April 20, 2016
CLEVELAND — For Kyle Seager, the perfect slump buster seems to be a series at Progressive Field. The Mariners’ third baseman shrugged off a slow early-season start with a pair of hits — including a home run — in Tuesday’s 3-2 series-opening loss to the Indians.
Seager has made a habit of haunting the Indians in their home park since his arrival in the Majors in 2011, and he hiked his batting average there to a healthy .418 by snapping a hitless streak that had reached 18 at-bats before his fourth-inning base hit to left.
“That felt good,” Seager said. “I’ve been rolling pretty hard and rolling over pretty much that pitch for a while. So that was definitely nice to be able to stay inside of it and hit the ball to left field on a line.”
The 28-year-old then launched his solo home run — Seattle’s only tally off starter Carlos Carrasco — with a soaring shot to right field in the sixth off a 1-0 changeup that stayed up in the zone.
“It was nice to see Seager get …
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