Texas Rangers vs Seattle Mariners Match Player Stats On May 28, 2019

Ronald Guzman hit a three-run homer to cap a seven-run fifth inning as the Texas Rangers defeated the host Seattle Mariners 11-4 on Tuesday night.

Nomar Mazara added a two-run homer for the Rangers, who scored in double digits for the third time in six games at T-Mobile Park this season.

The Rangers ended a three-game skid while handing the Mariners their seventh loss in eight games.

Texas right-hander Adrian Sampson (3-3), a Redmond, Wash., native, beat the Mariners for the second time in a week.

After opener Jesse Chavez struck out three in the first inning, Sampson came on in the second and went five innings, allowing three runs on eight hits. Sampson, who made his major league debut with the Mariners in 2016, walked one and fanned six.

Mariners left-hander Marco Gonzales' struggles in May continued. Gonzales (5-5) went four-plus innings, allowing eight runs (six earned) on eight hits with no walks and four strikeouts.

Gonzales, who became the first pitcher in franchise history to win five games by the end of April, dropped to 0-5 this month with a 5.86 ERA.

The Rangers, who beat the Mariners 15-1 and 14-1 in back-to-back games in their last trip to Seattle in late April, took an 11-0 lead in the fifth inning.

Texas scored twice in the first on an errant throw by Mariners catcher Omar Narvaez on a double steal by Shin-Soo Choo and Hunter Pence, who had both singled.

In the fourth, Joey Gallo led off with a line-drive single off the glove of a leaping Mariners second baseman Shed Long. Mazara followed by lining a homer over the center field wall to make it 4-0.

The Rangers pulled away in the fifth, when they batted around Isiah Kiner-Falefa led off with a double and took third on Choo's single. Elvis Andrus was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Pence's two-run double to left made it 6-0.

Right-hander Brandon Brennan replaced Gonzales and struck out Gallo for the first out before intentionally walking Mazara. Asdrubal Cabrera lined a two-run single to right, and an out later, Guzman homered into the restaurant in the second deck in right-center field to make it 11-0.

Mallex Smith hit a two-run double to get the Mariners on the board in the bottom of the fifth. J.P. Crawford had an RBI single an inning later, and Long did the same in the eighth.

--Field Level Media