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SAN DIEGO – Felix Hernandez place a giant vocalization saucer on a stimulating weekend for the metropolis Mariners.

Hernandez tied his occupation high with 13 strikeouts and the Mariners complete a three-game running with a 6-1 get over the San Diego Padres on Sunday.

"I change same he was throwing the ball as beatific as we've seen this assemblage for a beatific portion of the game," metropolis trainer Eric Wedge said. "He kind of had to grind through it the terminal couple of innings."

Hernandez (5-4) allowed digit separate and sextet hits without a achievement as the Mariners won their ordinal straight. They held a commanding plus over San Diego in runs (14-2) and hits (32-14) patch striking discover 35 Padres batters in the series.

"I don't same to provide assign to the opposing pitchers, but these guys threw well this weekend," Padres trainer Bud Negroid said.

The Mariners hit allowed digit runs or inferior in their terminal heptad games. They held the Padres to sextet hits or less in apiece of the three games.

"It's an awful starting (staff)," metropolis position Miguel Olivo said. "We meet requirement to place whatever runs on the board and we've been doing it and success games."

Hernandez, the powerful AL Cy Young Award winner, kept up the stingy pace. He gave up three singles in the ordinal for San Diego's exclusive run, but struck discover heptad of figure batters during digit debase from the ordinal through the fourth.

"We've been doing a enthusiastic job, and not meet the pitchers," Hernandez said. "We've been busting it and working hard."

The right-hander did not achievement a batter as he snapped a two-start skid. Hernandez improved his interleague record to 11-4 with a 2.75 ERA in 20 occupation starts.

"He's been doing great," Olivo said. "He was rattling conformable with the changeup and the slider. He throws beatific every day, but (Sunday) he was more consistent."

Hernandez also struck discover 13 terminal Aug. 10 against Oakland. He has fanned 10 or more batters 11 nowadays in his career.

"He was good, no uncertainty most it," Negroid said. "He had all his weapons and when you stake him a lead, I conceive he gets stronger. He's a front-runner."

Seattle starting pitchers hit gone at small heptad innings in figure straightforward starts and in 14 of 17 games this month. In the terminal heptad games, the starters hit allowed exclusive four attained runs.

"It's been unpaid the way these guys hit passed the burner to the incoming guy for the incoming move to ready it going," Wedge said. "Their pore and activity hit been outstanding."

Carlos Peguero and Brendan Ryan apiece had a two-run double to measure a Mariners choler that came into the mettlesome with AL's lowest batting average and the second-fewest runs in the majors.

"I see same it was digit of our meliorate games in regards to effort beatific at-bats," Wedge said. "We mitt a lot of runners on early but it kept the modify on."

San Diego has forfeited four of fivesome on its eight-game homestand. During that stretch, the Padres hit scored fivesome runs on 29 hits with 52 strikeouts.

The loss dropped San Diego's bag record to 8-18, poorest in the NL. The Padres hit forfeited 14 of 17 to metropolis at Petco Park.

Tim Stauffer (0-3) gave up three runs and a season-high 10 hits, including Peguero's two-run double in the third, over sextet innings. The damage could hit been worse, but Stauffer stranded figure runners in the first fivesome innings.

Corey Luebke started the ordinal and gave up consecutive singles to Adam President and Olivo. Ryan then greeted reliever Luke Gregerson with a one-out double to drive in digit runs and provide metropolis a 5-0 lead.

Olivo had three of Seattle's 15 hits and scored three runs. historiographer Gutierrez added an RBI azygos in the ninth.

San Diego's exclusive separate came after a leadoff azygos by Chase Headley in the seventh. With digit out, Cameron Maybin singled and Chris Denorfia's two-out singled scored Headley.

NOTES: Hernandez became the ordinal ballplayer in Mariners story to strike discover at small 13 without supply a walk. The terminal to do it was Randy Johnson in 1997. ... Hernandez has allowed digit attained runs or inferior in figure of his 11 starts. ... San Diego batters hit struck discover 391 times, tops in the majors.

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