Haniger stays hot in M’s 10-5 win over Marlins

SEATTLE — One day after breaking up a no-hitter in the ninth inning, Mitch Haniger drove in four runs Wednesday afternoon and helped the Seattle Mariners close out a successful homestand with a 10-5 victory over Miami.

Kyle Seager also had four RBI as the Mariners bailed out a shaky Felix Hernandez and completed a 6-3 homestand that effectively resets their season after a dreadful 1-7 start.

A balanced attack produced nine runs by getting 11 hits and drawing 10 walks in a nice recovery from Tuesday’s 5-0 loss, when the Mariners didn’t get a hit until Haniger’s one-out double in the ninth inning.

Hernandez (2-1) wasn’t sharp. He put the Mariners in a quick hole by surrendering two runs in the first inning and never appeared to find a comfort zone.

In all, he gave up 12 hits, including booming homers to Giancarlo Stanton and Christian Yelich. Even so, the King pitched into the seventh before turning over an 8-4 lead to Tony Zych with one on and one out.

Zych walked Stanton before getting Justin Bour to ground into a double play. Nick Vincent, Evan Marshall Marc Rzepczynski closed out the victory.

There was drama in the final inning when long-time Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki, in perhaps his final game at Safeco Field, turned a first-pitch fastball from Marshall into a leadoff homer.

The crowd of 27,147 cheered loudly as Suzuki circled the bases.

When the Marlins then put two runners on base against Marshall, manager Scott Servais summoned Rzepczynski for the final out. The Mariners, remember, blew a six-run lead in the ninth inning on April 9 at Anaheim.

Not this time. Rzepczynski threw one pitch and got the final out.

Haniger reached base in all five plate appearances and raised his average to .323. His two-run single erased a one-run deficit in the second inning, and his two-run double fueled a four-run fourth that boosted the lead to 8-4.

Seager’s first RBI was a double in the third inning that broke a 3-3 tie and gave the Mariners the lead for good. He added a two-run single in the fourth and worked a bases-loaded walk in a two-run eighth inning.

Miami starter Edinson Volquez (0-2) lasted just three innings and gave up runs in each of them; four in all along with five hits and four walks in a 70-pitch struggle.

Dustin McGowan replaced Volquez and, with his first pitch, hit Mike Zunino. The ball ricocheted and struck umpire Mark Wegner square in the mask.

Jarrod Dyson’s one-out single moved Zunino to second, and both runners scored on Haniger’s two-run double into the left-center gap for a 6-3 lead.

An intentional walk to Robinson Cano and a single by Nelson Cruz loaded the bases with one out for Kyle Seager, who lined a two-run single to center.

Miami got one run back when Yelich opened the fifth inning with a 415-foot homer to left field when Hernandez served up a 3-1 cookie of a fastball.

Next came a four-pitch walk to Stanton, who had hit a moonshot homer in his previous at-bat. It is the only walk issued this season by Hernandez after 24 2/3 innings over his four starts.

Stanton moved to second on a wild pitch and tried to score on J.T. Realmuto’s soft single to third when Seager tried for the out art first. Utilityman Mike Freeman, playing first, threw home of the out.

The Marlins opened the game with four straight singles against Hernandez, but it produced just one run.

When Dyson completed a double play by throwing out Martin Prado at the plate, Hernandez had a chance to limit the damage to just the one run.

But no.

Marcell Ozuna punched an RBI single through the left side for a 2-0 lead before Hernandez ended the inning.

The Mariners got one run back later in the inning when Volquez threw a two-out wild pitch with the bases loaded but stranded two runners in scoring position when Taylor Motter flied out to left.

Volquez provided another chance in the second with a pair of walks after Zunino’s one-out bloop double. Haniger then extended his hitting streak to 13 games with a two-run single to right.

The Mariners led 3-2 but missed the chance for a bigger inning when Haniger was thrown out stealing for a double play after Cano took a third strike.

That allowed the Marlins to get even when Stanton started the third inning by crushing a 3-1 changeup for a 445-foot homer to center.

Again the Mariners answered when Cruz and Seager opened the bottom of the inning with successive doubles for a 4-3 lead.

Haniger stays hot in M’s 10-5 win over Marlins