The Mariners figured out the best way to avoid watching the A's celebrate another extra-innings, walk-off win this season _ score four runs in the top half of the inning to put the game out of reach.
After watching the A's celebrate their sixth walk-off of the season Friday night, the Mariners found themselves in an extra-innings situation fewer than 24 hours later.
The Mariners scored four runs in the top of the eighth inning and Kendall Graveman worked a scoreless bottom of the eighth to secure a 5-1 victory over the A's in the opening game of Saturday's doubleheader.
With two seven-inning games scheduled _ the second a makeup game for a postponed game in Seattle _ the Mariners were the visiting team in the opener.
The teams played to a 1-1 tie through seven innings. In the top of the eighth, J.P. Crawford drove in pinch-runner Dee Gordon with his third hit of the game for a 2-1 lead.
Crawford made it 3-1 when he stole second and scored on Ty France's single to left. Kyle Seager's two-run homer provided the necessary cushion.
