Big blasts make rough weekend distant memory

SEATTLE — Kyle Seager knows how hard it is to deliver in Major League Baseball on a consistent basis. Like every big leaguer, he’s had his ups and downs, with the latest up being a go-ahead two-run homer in Monday’s 9-3 victory over the Padres.

Seager’s blow helped put a rough weekend sweep to the Twins in the rear-view mirror as the Mariners righted the ship at Safeco Field and kept themselves a half-game back of Texas in the American League West at 29-21.

But in typical Seager fashion, he was more eager to talk about the ensuing three-run blast by teammate Dae-Ho Lee that put the game out of reach in a five-run eighth.

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“He’s been pretty impressive,” Seager said of the 33-year-old from Korea. “Just to come in with a couple of the big home runs he’s hit — the one today was huge to kind of separate that game a little bit. That was a really big swing. He’s been huge. And that’s really hard to do in a not-playing-every-day role, to put together the quality of at-bats he has.”

Lee, performing in a platoon role at first base, is tied for third among American League rookies with seven home runs despite having just 75 …

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