Mariners score four in eighth, take series from Athletics
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OAKLAND — A bullpen implosion in the eighth inning Sunday left the Athletics on the wrong side of a 6-3 loss to the Seattle Mariners in the rubber match of a three-game series at the Coliseum.
Seattle scored four times against Lou Trivino (2-5) and Yusmeiro Petit, sending a Father’s Day crowd of 30,242 at the Coliseum home disappointed.
The Athletics are 36-36, the seventh time this month and 16th time this season they’ve had a .500 record. Seattle, with Mike Leake (6-6) giving up three runs (two earned) in seven innings, is 30-44. Austin Adams pitched a scoreless seventh for the Mariners, with Roenis Elias pitching the ninth.
Elias retired pinch-hitter Stephen Piscotty on a ground ball double play for his seventh save.
Khris Davis hit his 15th home run for the Athletics in the second inning, and Ramon Laureano his 10th in the fourth. Both came with no men on base.
After Liam Hendriks worked a scoreless seventh, Trivino ran into trouble in the eighth, giving a single to Mallex Smith, who was erased while attempting to steal on a throw by catcher Beau Taylor.
Trivino then walked J.P. Crawford then ran into tough luck as Mark Canha lost Domingo Santana’s fly ball to right in the sun and missed it for an error, putting runners at second and third. Trivino walked Daniel Vogelbach to load the bases, and Kyle Seager’s double to right brought home two runs
Petit came in to pitch, surrendering a sacrifice fly to center to give Seattle a two-run lead, followed by Dee Gordon’s triple into the right field corner for a 6-3 margin.
Because of Canha’s error, only one run in the inning was earned.
Starting pitcher Tanner Anderson left with a one-run lead in favor of Ryan Buchter after getting Santana on a ground out with one out in the sixth. He gave up a two-run home run to Smith (his fifth) in the third inning and nothing else. He had one walk, three strikeouts and threw 93 pitches, 56 of them for strikes.
The Athletics took a 2-0 lead in the second inning, which Davis began with a solo home run to right center. Canha followed with an infield single, advancing to second on a throwing error by Seager at third, then scored on Robbie Grossman’s double to left center.
The Mariners tied it on Smith’s home run on a 1-0 Anderson pitch to deep left, bringing home Austin Nola, who grounded a single past second.
Laureano’s home run to deep left center put the Athletics up 3-2 in the fourth.