SEATTLE — Julio Rodriguez homered for the second straight day, Cal Raleigh hit a two-run triple in the fifth inning and the Seattle Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics 8-6 on Thursday.
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Seattle won 17 of 19 games against Oakland and earned its third straight win overall to improve to 37-41.
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Oakland finished June with the worst record in the major leagues, at 5-21.
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The A’s recalled Adrian Martinez from Triple-A Las Vegas for his second career start, and he allowed seven runs on seven hits in 4 2/3 innings.
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Rodríguez hit his 13th home run of the season and his seventh in June. His solo shot over the center-field wall put the Mariners up 2-1 in the third inning. He sent another to the top deck of T-Mobile Park on Wednesday.
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For the Mariners, the Dominicans Julio Rodríguez 3-1 with two runs scored and one RBI, Carlos Santana 4-1 with runs scored. The Venezuelan Eugenio Suarez 3-0.
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For the Athletics, the Dominican Ramón Laureano 5-2 with two runs scored and four RBIs. Puerto Rican Vimael Machín 1-0. Venezuelan Elvis Andrus 3-1 with runs scored and RBIs..
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