Chicago White Sox vs Seattle Mariners Match Player Stats On May 19, 2017

The Sports Xchange
May 20, 2017

SEATTLE -- Melky Cabrera doubled home the go-ahead run with two outs in the top of the 10th inning Friday night as the Chicago White Sox defeated the Seattle Mariners 2-1 at Safeco Field.

Jose Quintana and David Robertson (3-1) combined on a one-hitter for the White Sox, who snapped a seven-game road losing streak.

Tony Zych (2-1) came on to pitch the 10th for Seattle and hit the first batter he faced, Kevan Smith, with a pitch.

Pinch-runner Leury Garcia advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Willy Garcia, then moved to third as Tim Anderson grounded out to second. Cabrera then lined a double down the right-field line to make it 2-1.

Robertson got Kyle Seager to line out to left field, struck out Danny Valencia looking and Taylor Motter to ground out to short in the 10th to end it.

Quintana and Seattle's Ariel Miranda had stellar starts, but neither factored into the decision.

Quintana allowed only one hit through eight innings and faced just 27 batters, in part because the White Sox made two errors. He walked one and struck out seven, and 64 of his 99 pitches were strikes.

Once again, Quintana got little support from the Chicago hitters. He entered getting only 2.37 runs per game, the second-worst total in the American League.

Miranda allowed one run and four hits in seven innings with nine strikeouts. He threw 100 pitches, including 68 for strikes.

Miranda was replaced in the eighth by Edwin Diaz, who was making his first appearance since Monday against Oakland, when he walked four consecutive batters and lost his closer's role.

Wily Garcia led off with an infield single on a high chopper that Seattle shortstop Jean Segura had no play on. After striking out Anderson and getting Cabrera to fly out to center, Jose Abreu reached on another infield single, putting runners at first and second. But Diaz got Avisail Garcia to ground into a fielder's choice to end the threat.

Diaz pitched a 1-2-3 ninth. In two innings, Diaz didn't walk a batter and struck out two.

Miranda cruised early, surpassing his career high in strikeouts by the end of the fifth inning. He threw first-pitch strikes to 17 of the first 18 batters he faced, combining a 94 mph fastball with a breaking pitch and changeup.

After getting two quick outs in the sixth, Miranda fell behind in the count 2-0 to Abreu. The White Sox slugger hit the next pitch 464 feet into the second deck in left field to tie the score at 1. It was Abreu's eighth homer of the season, with all of them on the road.

The Mariners scored first, as they have in 20 of their past 26 games, as Valencia tripled to right-center field to lead off the second inning and scored an out later on a sacrifice fly by Ben Gamel.

But that was the only hit allowed by Quintana through the first six innings.

NOTES: Chicago 2B Yolmer Sanchez had a stolen base overturned by review in the third inning, with umpires ruling Sanchez had been tagged out by Seattle's Taylor Motter before his hand reached second base. ... Seattle 1B Danny Valencia's triple in the second inning was his second of the season, giving him the team lead.