Post-Game Notes

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TEXAS RANGERS 4 (77-55), SEATTLE MARINERS 3 (59-72)

Tuesday, August 27, 2013 Safeco Field
FINAL 1 0 Texas Rangers 2 Seattle Mariners First Pitch: 7:10 pm 2 3 4 3 0 0 0 1 0 Time of Game: 3:35 5 0 0 6 7 8 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Temp: 73/ calm winds 10 1 0 R H E LOB 4 10 0 8 3 9 0 9 Attendance: 15,115

WP: Tanner Scheppers (6-2, 2.11) LP: Danny Farquhar (0-2, 4.67) SV: Joe Nathan (38)
HOME RUNS: Franklin Gutierrez (SEA) PITCHING LINES: TEXAS Derek Holland Jason Frasor Neal Cotts Tanner Scheppers (W) Joe Nathan (SV) SEATTLE Hisashi Iwakuma Charlie Furbush Yoervis Medina Danny Farquhar (L) NO. 6 PITCHER Derek Holland INN. 3 MOB 0 OUT 0 COUNT 1-0 DISTANCE/FIELD 398/CF

IP 6.0 1.0 1.0+ 1.0 1.0 IP 6.0 1.0 2.0 1.0

H 6 0 2 0 1 H 7 0 1 2

R 3 0 0 0 0 R 3 0 0 1

ER 3 0 0 0 0 ER 3 0 0 1

BB-I 4-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 BB-I 1-0 0-0 1-0 0-0

SO 5 2 1 2 1 SO 7 1 3 1

HR 1 0 0 0 0 HR 0 0 0 0

WP 0 0 0 0 0 WP 0 0 0 0

HB 0 0 0 0 0 HB 0 0 1 0

BK 0 0 0 0 0 BK 0 0 0 0

PITCHES/STRIKES 104/63 15/9 16/12 12/7 20/12 PITCHES/STRIKES 103/68 14/10 30/17 19/12

RANGERS NOTES: Derek Holland took a no-decision, allowing 3 earned runs on 6 hits with 5 strikeouts and 4 walks in 6.0 innings. o Extended his road unbeaten streak to 11 games, since April 27 at Minnesota. It is the 3rd-longest such streak in Rangers history. o Hollands 2 runs allowed in the first inning snapped a string of 26.0 consecutive innings without allowing an earned run at Safeco Field. o Allowed his 14th home run of the seasonentered the game with the ALs 7th-best HR/9.0 IP (0.67). Ian Kinsler (4x5, R) is batting .352 (19x54) with 10 runs scored, 4 doubles, 1 home run, 9 RBI, and 5 walks over his past 14 games since August 12 to raise his batting average from .266 to .277...recorded his 1st 4-hit game this season (last: 7/8/12 vs. MIN). Adrian Beltre (1x4, HBP) extended his hitting streak to 7 games, since August 20, batting .409 (9x22) with 6 runs scored, 2 doubles, 2 home runs, 3 RBI, and 5 walks during the streak. Elvis Andrus (1x5, RBI) extended his hitting streak to 5 games, since August 23, batting .360 (9x25) with 2 runs scored, 1 double, and 2 RBI during that spanequaled a season-high, with 3 strikeouts, (4x, last: 8/10 @ HOU). A.J. Pierzynski (1x5) extended his hitting streak to 5 games, since August 23, batting .278 (5x18) with 3 runs scored, 1 double, 1 home run, and 4 RBI during that span. MARINERS NOTES: Hisashi Iwakuma took a no-decision, allowing 3 earned runs on 7 hits with 7 strikeouts and 1 walk in 6.0 innings. o Is 2-1 with a 2.94 ERA (11 ER/ 33.2 IP) with 31 strikeouts and 6 walks in 5 starts vs. the Rangers this season. o Recorded his 19th quality start of the season. 11 of Iwakumas 19 quality starts have come at Safeco Field. o Retired 13 of the last 15 batters he has faced after allowing 3 runs in the top of the 2nd inning. o Recorded 7 strikeouts, his 11th start with 7+ strikeouts this seasonwill finish the month of August with 24 strikeouts, his lowest strikeout total of any month this season (previous low: 27, June). Dustin Ackley (3x3, BB) extended his hitting streak to 5 games, since 8/23, batting .563 (9x16) with 2 runs scored, 2 doubles, 1 home run, 1 RBI, and 1 walk during that span. o Is batting .400 (24x60) with 8 runs scored, 5 doubles, 1 triple, 1 home run, 3 RBI, and 4 walks in 18 games in the month of Augusthas recorded 8 multi-hit games this monthrecorded his 7th 3-hit game of the season. Franklin Gutierrez (1x5, R, HR, RBI) snapped a 10 at-bat hitless streak with his first home run since June 22 vs. Oaklandis averaging a HR every 11.5 at-bats this season. Kendrys Morales (1x4, 2B, RBI, BB) hit his team-leading 30th double2nd time in his career to record 30 doubles in a season (43 in 2009). o Recorded his 47th extra-base hit (second on the team to Kyle Seager, 50)is batting .333 (37x111) with 50 RBI with RISP this season. He entered the game T-8 in the AL (also: Billy Butler, KC & Adam Jones, BAL). NEXT GAME Texas Rangers vs. Seattle Mariners Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 12:40 pm PT (ROOT Sports) LHP Martin Perez (7-3, 3.62) vs. RHP Felix Hernandez (12-7, 2.63)

Brad Miller (0x4, BB) had his 7-game hitting streak snapped. Miller hit .355 (11x31) with 2 runs scored, 1 home run, and 4 RBI during the streak. Danny Farquhar had his streak of 16 consecutive batters retired, since 8/16, snapped by Kinslers single in the 10thKinsler later scored on a balk by Farquhar, which was the first balk by a Mariners pitcher since Hector Noesi on Oct. 1, 2012, vs. LAA.

Post-Game Quotes
RANGERS MANAGER RON WASHINGTON: Did your team get tougher tonight? Oh yeah, it was what you might call tonight a grinding situation, and all of us had to grind. It was definitely a team effort and it was hard-fought. Im so proud of them. Derek Holland was foremost among them who had to grind it out No doubt about it. He just didnt have it the way he would have liked to and we would have to have seen. But he found a way to get it done, and sometimes you go out there as a pitcher and youve got to find a way to get it done, and Derek certainly did tonight, kept us in the ballgame and gave us a chance. Did you expect Kinsler to score the way that he did [on the balk]? No, I didnt expect that, but CB saw something and called it. He was on his job tonight. Did you or somebody else in the dugout say something about the balk? No, I just saw CB yelling balk and started smiling.