Raleigh, Torrens hit back-to-back HRs, Mariners top A's 4-3

SEATTLE (AP) — Cal Raleigh and Luis Torrens hit back-to-back homers, Dylan Moore scored the go-ahead run on consecutive wild pitches and the Seattle Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics 4-3 on Friday night.

Seattle’s Yusei Kikuchi struck out a career-high 12 and Oakland's Frankie Montas fanned 10. Neither starter figured in the decision in a game that included punches thrown in the stands during a fight that attracted a lot of views on social media.

Moore manufactured the tiebreaking run by disrupting the A's with his baserunning. Pinch-hitting in the seventh, he hustled out an infield single with two outs, stole his 15th base and scored on a pair of wild pitches by reliever Jake Diekman (2-2).

“I try to keep that annoyingness level up,” Moore said.

Seattle snapped Oakland’s three-game winning streak and is a major league-best 21-8 in one-run games. The Mariners felt the rally showed they're starting to reel in their AL West rivals.

“I think as a team we're trying to get up to that level,” Moore said.

A's manager Bob Melvin said of Diekman: “With the sliders, he was trying not to hang them.”

Instead, the threw them in the dirt, an outcome Mariners manager Scott Servais said the team suspected from advanced scouting reports.

“Diekman's not great at holding runners,” Servais said. “That's really not his forte.”

Raleigh's two-run shot to the second deck in right field in the second inning came with Ty France aboard following Montas’ only walk. Servais called the first homer of the promising rookie catcher’s career “an absolute bomb.” It measured 444 feet.

Torrens, another career catcher playing first base, followed with his 12th of the season.

Matt Chapman homered in the A's third. Matt Olson hit his 26th homer in the...

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