Texas Rangers vs Seattle Mariners Match Player Stats On Jul 04, 2021

Luis Torrens and Shed Long Jr. hit home runs and Chris Flexen pitched six strong innings as the Seattle Mariners defeated the visiting Texas Rangers 4-1 Sunday afternoon, taking two of three games in the series.

Flexen (7-3) allowed one run on four hits. The right-hander didn't walk a batter and struck out five to improve to 5-2 at home.

Right-handers Drew Steckenrider, Paul Sewald and Kendall Graveman combined for three scoreless innings of one-hit relief. Graveman worked a 1-2-3 ninth for his eighth save of the season.

Rangers right-hander Mike Foltynewicz (2-8) took the loss. He allowed four runs on four hits in seven innings, with one walk and five strikeouts. Two of those hits were home runs.

The game was scoreless until the bottom of the fourth.

Seattle's Mitch Haniger was hit by a pitch leading off the inning and, an out later, Ty France grounded a single to left field. With two outs, Torrens hit a 1-2 pitch over the right-field wall to make it 3-0.

With one out in the fifth, Long hit a solo shot down the right-field line that hit off the windows of T-Mobile Park's Hit It Here Cafe on the second deck.

The Rangers finally got to Flexen in the sixth. With one out, Brock Holt lined a single to right but was forced out at second on Eli White's grounder to third. Nate Lowe reached on an infield single, with White taking third on the play.

Adolis Garcia then hit a soft grounder to the third base side of the mound, but Flexen was unable to make a barehanded play and the run scored.

Joey Gallo, who had homered in five of his previous six games, came to the plate with two runners on, but Flexen struck him out on a 3-2 pitch to end the threat.

--Field Level Media