Recap: Texas vs. Seattle

By Sports Network

Arlington, TX (Sports Network) - Ramon Vazquez belted a two-run, game- winning double in the bottom of the ninth to lift the Rangers over the Mariners 11-10 in a wild game that featured Ichiro Suzuki's 3,000th career hit, in the second installment of a four-game series.

Vazquez maintained the center of attention throughout the game with four hits, four RBI and three fielding errors while Marlon Byrd hit a three-run homer to go with three hits and four RBI. Milton Bradley and Gerald Laird added an RBI on three hits each as the Rangers snapped a two-game slide.

C.J. Wilson (1-2) blew his fourth save of the season in the ninth allowing the M's to take the lead on two runs and two hits but was served the win thanks to Vazquez's heroics.

Jose Lopez and Bryan LaHair hit solo home runs in the seventh as part of a five-run Seattle comeback and finished with three hits and three runs scored apiece.

Suzuki finished the game with two hits, including an RBI single, but his single to start the game was the real story as he notched his 3,000th hit. Suzuki played his first seven years in Japan's Pacific League, where he racked up 1,278 of his 3,001 hits in professional baseball.

J.J. Putz (2-4) took the loss and blew his fifth save of the season, allowing the Rangers two runs on three hits while recording only one out in the ninth. Seattle snapped a two-game winning streak following a dismal stretch of seven straight losses.

Starters Luis Mendoza and Carlos Silva started the fireworks by giving up six runs each in the early going. Texas' Mendoza fared somewhat better with nine hits allowed, lasting 5 1/3 innings but the M's Silva was pummeled on seven hits in just 2 1/3 innings.

Both teams had injuries to report as Seattle's Kenji Johjima left in the ninth with a left leg injury after he was plunked by Wilson on the knee while the Rangers Bradley strained his left quadriceps and exited in the eighth.