The Seattle Mariners finally figured out the Kansas City Royals pitching staff as they scored 11 runs as they beat the Royals 11-6 on Tuesday night. After having a complete game thrown at them on Monday, the Mariners came out swinging early and often.
Jose Lopez had four RBI for the Mariners, and three of them came on sacrafice flies. Lopez is just the 12th player in major league history to hit three sacrafice flies in a game. Yuniesky Betancourt tallied three RBI, Kenji Johjima had two RBI, while Raul Ibanez and Willie Bloomquist chipped in with one RBI each.
Starting pitcher Miguel Batista struggled for the Mariners but he did pick up the win after pitching five innings and allowing seven hits and four earned runs. Ryan Rowland-Smith also had some trouble as he had two earned runs in only one inning of action.
The pitching staff is really lucky that the offense scored 11 runs, or the Mariners would have probably lost this game the way the pitchers pitched.
