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- Updated: June 1, 2016
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.
“I can’t say enough,” Mariners manager Scott Servais said. “Our offense showed up today, right from the get-go. A lot of good at-bats. Obviously the home runs were big. It’s great to see.”
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 Lind (three-run blast) going deep in a four-run fifth.
“Just getting behind in the count, walking guys,” Shields said. “All my damage was two outs. If I bear down and get those outs, it’s a whole different ballgame. They might not score any runs, really to be honest with you. Just kind of one of those days. That’s a good-hitting team over there. I didn’t do my job today and we’ve got to move forward.”
Mariners starter Hisashi Iwakuma was perfect through four innings but got touched up a bit late. The Padres got in on the homer-hitting party in the sixth, with Travis Jankowski and Matt Kemp launching long balls and Hector Sanchez hitting a solo shot in the seventh.
MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDMariners break out in second: Patience paid off for Seattle in the second inning, when the Mariners made Shields pay for his mistakes on the mound in a big, game-deciding way — and all with two outs. Luis Sardinas batted with the Mariners up, 1-0, and started the …
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