Manaea pitches A's past Mariners
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Trevor Plouffe and Yonder Alonso hit solo home runs, left-hander Sean Manaea pitched six solid innings, and the Oakland Athletics won their fourth straight game, a 3-1 victory against the Seattle Mariners at the Oakland Coliseum on Friday night.
Manaea (1-1) held the Mariners to one run on five hits. He struck out six, walked three and threw 96 pitches. With two runners on and two outs in the top of the sixth, he struck out Taylor Motter to end his final inning, preserving a 1-1 tie.
The A's scored twice in the bottom of the frame, giving Manaea his first win of the season.
Mariners right-hander Hisashi Iwakuma (0-2) gave up three runs on five hits, including two home runs, over 5 1/3 innings. He struck out three and walked four.
Plouffe hit his 100th career home run in the fifth inning, tying the game 1-1 with a shot to center field. The home run was his fourth of the season, all in the past seven games.
Alonso crushed Iwakuma's first pitch of the sixth inning high and deep over the right-center field wall for his third blast of the season, putting Oakland ahead 2-1.
Jed Lowrie followed with an opposite-field double to left-center and moved to third on Khris Davis' ground out. Stephen Vogt brought Lowrie home with a sacrifice fly to make it 3-1.
Ryan Dull pitched a scoreless seventh inning, Sean Doolittle a perfect eighth and Santiago Casilla a one-two-three ninth for his third save.
Seattle took a 1-0 lead in the first when Guillermo Heredia lined a two-out single to center and scored on rookie Mitch Haniger's triple into the left field corner. It was Haniger's first triple, 10th extra-base hit and 16th RBI.
NOTES: Oakland center fielder Rajai Davis missed Friday night's game a left hamstring injury. ... Mariners right-handed reliever Dan Altavilla was optioned to Triple-A Tacoma. Seattle recalled right-hander Chase De Jon from Tacoma. ... A's right-hander Cesar Valdez was optioned to Nashville, one day after being called up and making his first major league start and appearance since 2010. Oakland recalled first baseman/right fielder Matt Olson from Nashville. ... A's right-hander Kendall Graveman (strained right shoulder) threw a bullpen session Friday and appears to be on track to come off the disabled list on Tuesday, the first day he's eligible, or soon after. ... Mariners shortstop Jean Segura (right hamstring) began a rehabilitation stint with Double-A Arkansas on Friday night and should need only one or two more games before being activated with the Mariners, manager Scott Servais said.