Seattle Mariners at Chicago White Sox

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Seattle Mariners

28-20, 15-9 Away

Final
6 - 5

Chicago White Sox

15-35, 10-14 Home

Taveras' 2-run homer in the 8th inning lifts Mariners to a 6-5 win over the White Sox

With Seattle trailing 5-4, Rowdy Tellez greeted reliever Mike Vasil (2-2) with a single. Taveras drove Vasil's next pitch to the right-center bleachers for his second hit of the game.

Seattle's Cal Raleigh slugged his 16th homer, tying the Yankees' Aaron Judge for the AL lead, doubled and walked twice. Julio Rodriquez hit a three-run homer for the AL West-leading Mariners.

Chicago's Lenyn Sosa and Joshua Palacios hit consecutive homers in the fourth. Tim Elko added his third homer in 10 games since being recalled from the minors.

Rookie Chase Meidroth had two hits and put Chicago ahead 5-4 in the seventh with an RBI single. The White Sox lost for the sixth time in seven games.

Seattle starter Logan Evans allowed four runs on six hits in six innings while striking out seven. Casey Legumina (4-1) pitched one inning for the win, despite surrendering an unearned run. Andrés Muñoz worked around a single in the the ninth for his AL-leading 16th save.

White Sox rookie Shane Smith allowed three runs on two hits with six strikeouts in five innings. He settled in after walking the first two Seattle batters and then serving up Rodriguez’s ninth homer.

Elko’s solo shot in the third made it 3-1. Sosa’s two-run homer, followed by Palacios' drive, put Chicago ahead 4-3.

Raleigh's solo shot tied it at 4 in the sixth.

Key moment After Seattle took the the lead, Carlos Vargas and Muñoz retired six of seven hitters to close it out.

Key stat Meidroth extended his hitting streak to nine games.

Up next Mariners RHP George Kirby (no record) comes off the IL for his season debut against Astros RHP Lance McCullers Jr. (0-1, 7.88) at Houston on Thursday.

White Sox RHP Sean Burke (2-5, 4.89) starts on Friday against visiting Texas.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Meidroth grounded into fielder's choice to second, Capra out at second.
	9th Inning	Quero fouled out to third.
	9th Inning	Quero hit for Taylor
	9th Inning	Elko flied out to center.
	9th Inning	Capra ran for Vaughn
	9th Inning	Vaughn singled to left.

Statistics

SEA		CHW
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
2	Hit By Pitch	0
13	Ground Balls	10
8	Strikeouts	10
6	Runs Batted In	5
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
7	Hits	8
2	Stolen Bases	1
5	Walks	2
0	Catcher Interference	0
6	Runs	5
0	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
35	At Bats	35
3	Home Runs	3
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
14	Runners Left On Base	14
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
1	Doubles	1
14	Fly Balls	15
0	Caught Stealing	0
167	Pitches	141
0	Games Started	0
1	Pinch At Bats	1
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
17	Total Bases	18
42	Plate Appearances	37
486.0	Projected Home Runs	486.0
4	Extra Base Hits	4
6.5	Runs Created	4.8
.200	Batting Average	.229
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.486	Slugging Percentage	.514
.486	Secondary Average	.371
.333	On Base Percentage	.270
.819	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.785
0.9	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.7
6.3	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	4.7
44.0	Batter Rating	40.0
11.7	At Bats Per Home Run	11.7
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
3.98	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.81
.286	Isolated Power	.286
0.63	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.20
.119	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.054
.286	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.143
12.0	Runs Produced	10.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.6
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.2
88.3	MLB Rating	86.5
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0