Kyle Seager homered to reach 100 RBIs for the first time in his career and Chris Flexen pitched seven strong innings as the Seattle Mariners defeated the host Oakland Athletics 4-1 Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Ty France also homered for the Mariners (83-69), who pulled within 2 1\/2 games of the American League’s second and final wild-card playoff position. The A’s (82-70) fell 3 1\/2 games back.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Seattle has won the first three games of the four-game series in Oakland, limiting the A’s to five runs overall.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Mariners will aim for a sweep on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Flexen (13-6) improved to 7-1 on the road, allowing one run on three hits and two walks. The right-hander struck out eight, dewadominoqq link alternatif<\/a> matching his career high, set June 15 against the Minnesota Twins.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Drew Steckenrider pitched the ninth for his 11th save.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n A’s left-hander Cole Irvin (10-14) lost for the fourth time in as many starts against Seattle this year.<\/p>\n He allowed three runs on seven hits over five-plus innings, with three walks and five strikeouts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Seager broke a scoreless tie in the fourth inning, leading off by hitting an 0-1 pitch from Irvin over the center field wall for his 35th homer. Though he is batting a career-low .216, Seager has surpassed his previous highs in home runs (30) and RBIs (99), both set in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Mariners added another run in the fourth as Abraham Toro singled with one out, took second on a wild pitch and scored on Tom Murphy’s two-out single to center to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n