Originally published Tuesday, April 26, 2011 at 7:15 PM
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Hernandez beats Tigers once again, 7-3
Miguel Olivo hit a blooper-reel home run and Felix Hernandez extended his dominance of the Detroit Tigers in the Seattle Mariners' 7-3 win Tuesday night.
The Associated Press
Miguel Olivo hit a blooper-reel home run and Felix Hernandez extended his dominance of the Detroit Tigers in the Seattle Mariners' 7-3 win Tuesday night.
Hernandez (3-2) beat the Tigers for the seventh straight time, allowing three runs - two earned - on four hits in six innings.
Phil Coke was routed by Seattle for the second time in a week, giving up seven runs in 4 1-3 innings. In his two starts against the Mariners, Coke is 0-2 with 13 runs allowed in eight innings.
After Detroit went up on an unearned run in the first, the Mariners tied it on a second-inning play that will be on all the blooper reels.
Olivo hit a routine-looking fly to deep left but Ryan Raburn struggled to find it in the sun. While still short of the warning track, Raburn lunged back, only to deflect the ball high into the air and into the Tigers' bullpen for Olivo's first homer of the season.
Two innings later, Justin Smoak hit Seattle's second homer to left - this one clearing Raburn and the fence - for a 3-1 lead. Detroit, though, tied it in the bottom of the fourth on Brandon Inge's two-run double.
As an ominous thunderhead passed south of the stadium, the Mariners went up 7-3 with four runs in the fifth.
Ichiro Suzuki started the scoring with an RBI single, and Chone Figgins followed with a two-run double. Coke left the game after hitting Milton Bradley, but reliever Brayan Villarreal threw away a pickoff attempt to allow Figgins to score Seattle's seventh run.
NOTES: Smoak rejoined the team in Detroit after spending time on the breavement list due to a death in his family. Mariners manager Eric Wedge said that Smoak asked to go right back into the lineup. ... The edge of a storm did hit the stadium at the end of the sixth inning, causing most fans to scamper for cover, but the rain lasted less than two minutes.

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