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American League Game Summary - Texas at Seattle

Felix Hernandez had 12 strikeouts in seven strong innings and the Seattle Mariners snapped a four-game losing streak with a 3-1 win over the Texas Rangers on Saturday.

Hernandez (2-0) gave up just one run on two hits and two walks in his 43rd career start against the Rangers, helping them bounce back from a 3-1 loss in the series opener on Friday.

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Mike Zunino hit a solo homer off Texas starter Colby Lewis in the fifth inning to give the Mariners the lead for good.

Lewis (1-1) allowed three runs on 10 hits and two walks in 5 2/3 innings.

The Mariners put their leadoff man on base in the first three innings but didn't score until the fourth, when Robinson Cano and Nelson Cruz hit one-out singles, Kyle Seager walked with two outs and Seth Smith's sacrifice fly gave them a 1-0 lead.

Jake Smolinski was hit by a pitch with one out in the fifth, went to third on Leonys Martin's single and scored on Elvis Andrus' groundout to tie the score for Texas.

But Zunino gave Seattle the lead again when he knocked Lewis' first-pitch slider in the bottom of the fifth over the left-field wall for his first homer of the season.

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Seager's double made it five leadoff hits in the first six innings for the Mariners. He scored on Brad Miller's two-out triple, which made it 3-1 and knocked Lewis out of the game.

No one has faced Hernandez more in his career or hung more wins on the former Cy Young Award winner than the Rangers, who entered the game 21-12 against the star right-hander.

But Hernandez threw 70 of his 111 pitches for strikes and struck out the last four batters he faced, setting down Cano, Cruz and Seager in the seventh.

Danny Farquhar struck out two in a 1-2-3 eighth inning for Seattle and Fernando Rodney had one strikeout in a perfect ninth to record his third save of the season.

[SportsNetwork.com]

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