ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Randy Arozarena hit a three-run homer after Seattle lost starting pitcher Emerson Hancock to a hand injury in the second inning, and the Mariners beat the Tampa Bay Rays 8-2 on Sunday to snap a five-game losing streak.<\/p>\n
Hancock took a 107.2 mph one-hopper off his pitching hand on his first pitch to Yandy Diaz but recovered to throw him out at first. The right-hander stayed in the game and retired Jonathan Aranda on a flyout on his second pitch before striking out Junior Caminero.<\/p>\n
Hancock then left after issuing a two-out walk to Victor Mesa Jr. in the second on his 19th pitch. Jos\u00e9 A. Ferrer (2-1) needed one pitch to end the inning before striking out two in a scoreless third. Four relievers followed, with Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz pitching the ninth to close it out.<\/p>\n
Seattle took a 3-0 lead against Ian Seymour (6-2) in the second on Victor Robles\u2019 bases-loaded sacrifice fly and J.P. Crawford\u2019s two-out, two-run double.<\/p>\n
Weston Wilson hit<\/a> a solo homer \u2014 his first as a Mariner and second of the season \u2014 with one out in the fourth. Seymour left with two outs and two on and Arozarena greeted<\/a> Cole Sulser with his 11th homer to cap the four-run inning for a 7-0 lead.<\/p>\n Buddy Kennedy and Crawford had back-to-back doubles off Craig Kimbrel with one out in the ninth for the final margin.<\/p>\n Diaz singled leading off the eighth against Eduard Bazardo and Aranda followed with his 14th homer for the Rays\u2019 runs.<\/p>\n eymour allowed six runs in 3 1\/3 innings, surrendering six hits with three walks. Sulser got two outs and was charged with a run.<\/p>\n Tampa Bay (57-37) has the best record in the AL heading to the All-Star Game.<\/p>\n Seattle (48-49) lost three straight to the Marlins to start a 1-5 trip.<\/p>\n Evan Longoria had his No. 3 jersey retired in a pregame ceremony, one day after being inducted into the Rays\u2019 Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n The Rays begin a three-game road series against the Red Sox on Friday, while the Mariners host the Giants for three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Randy Arozarena hit a three-run homer after Seattle lost starting pitcher Emerson Hancock…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2205,28,115,29645,110,135,3815,137,136],"class_list":["post-338159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-associated-press","tag-florida","tag-news","tag-professional-baseball","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}