Jhonny Pereda and Randy Arozarena homered in a three-run seventh inning as the Seattle Mariners broke a tie and held on for a 5-4 victory against the visiting Chicago White Sox on Wednesday afternoon.
Seattle took two of three games against the White Sox to finish its six-game homestand with a 2-4 record.
Seattle reliever Matt Brash (3-0), activated from the 15-day injured list (right lat inflammation) earlier in the day, pitched a scoreless inning of work with two strikeouts.
Jose A. Ferrer worked the ninth for his third save of the season, despite allowing a leadoff homer to White Sox pinch-hitter Randal Grichuk. Ferrer then struck out Munetaka Murakami, pinch-hitter Derek Hill and Colson Montgomery to end the game.
Pereda hit his first career homer to lead off the Seattle seventh, going deep to left off Sean Newcomb (0-1) to give the Mariners a 3-2 lead.
After a double by Julio Rodriguez, the White Sox brought in Jordan Hicks to face Arozarena with two outs. The move backfired as Arozarena homered to left-center to put Seattle up by three.
The White Sox scored an unearned run in the eighth as Chase Meidroth and Jarred Kelenic singled with one out. Tristan Peters grounded into a forceout, with Meidroth reaching home on shortstop Cole Emerson’s throwing error on an attempted double play.
The Mariners opened the scoring in the second. Arozarena was hit by a pitch, stole second and scored on Dominic Canzone’s one-out double to right.
Chicago tied it in the third as Sam Antonacci grounded a one-out single to left, stole second and came home on Andrew Benintendi’s two-out single to center.
Seattle regained the lead in the fourth as Arozarena walked, stole second and tallied on Patrick Wisdom’s two-out double to left.
The White Sox tied it again in the fifth as Luisangel Acuna and Antonacci both singled to center with one out and Murakami grounded an RBI single to right.
Neither starter factored into the decision.
Chicago’s Sean Burke allowed two runs on four hits over 4 1/3 innings. The right-hander walked three and struck out five.
Mariners right-hander Emerson Hancock went five innings and gave up two runs on five hits, with three walks and four strikeouts.
–Field Level Media
