The Seattle Mariners' Jorge Polanco and Luke Raley both homered and Andres Munoz earned his 16th save of the year in a 6-4 win against the Houston Astros on Sunday.
SEATTLE — Everything that the Seattle Mariners have been wanting to do right, they did on Sunday's 6-4 win against the Houston Astros. There was the usual solid pitching, two players hit home runs, only three runners were left on base and the Mariners improved to 53-48 on the season.
Mariners left fielder Dylan Moore hit a two-run triple off the left field wall in the bottom of the second to put his team up 2-0. It didn't take long for the Astros to respond and Yordan Alvarez hit a solo home run to right field in the top of the fourth.answered right back and second baseman Jorge Polanco hit a solo home run to right field to put the Mariners back up by two. It was Polanco's first home run since May 3 — also against Houston.
Luke Raley rewarded Rodriguez's efforts and hit a three-run home run to right field to put Seattle up 6-2. It was Raley's 11th home run of the year and snapped a six-game hitless streak.Houston nearly clawed its way back with a solo Jeremy Pena home run in the top of the seventh and a Chas McCormick RBI single one inning later. Those two knocks brought the score to the eventual final of 6-4.
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