Mariners keep power on in 5-HR rout of Padres

SEATTLE — The Mariners hit five home runs, two of them by Seth Smith, and won both games of the short two-game series against the Padres with a 16-4 victory at a sun-splashed Safeco Field on Tuesday afternoon.

Seattle piled on Padres starter James Shields from the get-go, scoring a run in the first inning on Kyle Seager’s RBI single and then sending nine men to the plate in a six-run second that effectively put the game away. The big blow in that inning was a two-out, three-run homer by Seager, but all six of the runs in the inning were scored with two outs, and that trend continued in the third.

Again, Shields got two outs, and again the Mariners rallied anyway, with Smith hitting a three-run homer to make it 10-0. More long balls followed, with Franklin Gutierrez hitting a two-run shot in the fourth and Smith (solo) and Adam …

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