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HOUSTON, TX – SEPTEMBER 21: (left to right) Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh (29) accepts the trident from Seattle Mariners shortstop J.P. Crawford (3) after hitting a two-run home run in the top of the second inningduring the MLB game between th (Leslie Plaza Johnson \/ Icon Sportswire \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n
HOUSTON – J.P. Crawford hit a grand slam and Cal Raleigh slugged his major league-leading 58th home run to lead the Seattle Mariners to a 7-3 win over the Houston Astros on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
The Mariners completed a three-game sweep that gave them a three-game lead in the AL West over the Astros with six remaining.<\/p>\n
Seattle, which has won four straight and 14 of 15, holds the second American League playoff seed by two games over AL Central-leading Detroit, which has dropped six in a row. The Mariners, looking to win the AL West for the first time since 2001, finished 8-5 against the Astros this season.<\/p>\n
Houston is tied with Cleveland for the final AL wild card.<\/p>\n
The Mariners jumped on Jason Alexander (4-2) early. They got things going with a bases-loaded walk with one out in the second inning before Crawford\u2019s grand slam made it 5-0. Randy Arozarena singled before Raleigh, who was batting left-handed, connected for his home run to right field<\/a> to extend the lead.<\/p>\n The shot came a night after Raleigh passed Ken Griffey Jr.<\/a> for the franchise\u2019s single-season home run record with his 57th homer. Griffey hit 56 in both 1997 and 1998.<\/p>\n Alexander allowed seven hits and seven runs while getting just four outs.<\/p>\n Seattle starter Logan Gilbert (6-6) yielded three hits and a run with four strikeouts in six innings.<\/p>\n Zach Cole and Isaac Paredes hit solo homers for the Astros.<\/p>\n Key moment <\/p>\n Crawford\u2019s grand slam.<\/p>\n Key stat <\/p>\n The Astros never led in the series and went 2 for 20 with runners in scoring position.<\/p>\n Up next <\/p>\n Both teams are off Monday before Houston opens a three-game road series against the Athletics on Tuesday night and the Mariners host the first of three against the Colorado Rockies that night.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this story came from The Associated Press.<\/p>\n MORE MARINERS NEWS FROM FOX 13 SEATTLE <\/p>\n Seattle Mariners slugger Cal Raleigh hits MLB-leading 58th home run against Astros<\/a><\/p>\n Raleigh’s 57th homer, Robles diving catch give Seattle Mariners 6-4 win over Astros<\/a><\/p>\n Cal Raleigh breaks Ken Griffey Jr’s franchise record with 57th home run for Seattle Mariners<\/a><\/p>\n Su\u00e1rez homers, Woo exits after 5 innings as Mariners beat Astros 4-0 to take over 1st in AL West<\/a><\/p>\n Seattle starter Bryan Woo exits after throwing warmup pitches in 6th vs. Astros<\/a><\/p>\n To get the best local news, weather and sports in Seattle for free, sign up for the daily FOX Seattle Newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n Download the free FOX LOCAL app for mobile in the Apple App Store<\/a> or Google Play Store<\/a> for live Seattle news, top stories, weather updates and more local and national news.<\/p>\n Seattle Mariners<\/a>Sports<\/a>MLB<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article HOUSTON, TX – SEPTEMBER 21: (left to right) Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh (29) accepts the trident…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[5463,363,99],"class_list":["post-173355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mariners","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}