Mariners run win streak to seven games
Posted August 1, 2012 9:36 pm.
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SEATTLE, WA (NEWS1130) – Eric Thames hit a two-run shot against his former team in his Mariners debut as Seattle edged the Toronto Blue Jays 5-3 for their seventh victory in a row.
Colby Rasmus got the Blue Jays off to a quick start as he took Blake Beaven deep for a solo shot as just the second batter of the game.
The Rasmus homer was the only hit of the game until he came to the plate again in the fourth and smacked a single. After Rasmus was put out on the basepath, Kelly Johnson hit the Blue Jays’ second solo blast of the night, making it a 2-0 lead.
The Mariners got on the board with a fielders choice in the home half of the fourth, before the Blue Jays restored their two-run lead with a sac-fly in the fifth.
In the bottom of the fifth, the Mariners pulled even with Thames’ first home run with the team. Thames was dealt to the Mariners on Monday evening for relief pitcher Steve Delabar.
Seattle added the go-ahead run in the sixth with an RBI-single off the bat of John Jaso, and then padded the lead with a Dustin Ackley RBI-single in the seventh to round out the scoring,
Beaven turned in an impressive effort to record the win. He allowed three runs on seven hits while striking out four in seven and two-thirds innings of work.
The victory gave the Mariners a three-game sweep of the Blue Jays in Toronto’s only visit of the season to the Pacific Northwest.
