SEATTLE -- Manny Machado didn't think it was possible to reach the second deck of Safeco Field's left field seats.
He proved himself wrong.
"Nah, no chance," Machado said. "Just good swings. Trying to get back into my routine, doing the things I need to do and I got a good pitch to hit."
Tim Beckham hit the first pitch of the game out for his first career leadoff homer, Machado hit the sixth grand slam of his career an inning later, and the Baltimore Orioles routed the Seattle Mariners 11-3 on Monday night.
Baltimore pounded Seattle's pitching, scoring double-digit runs for the second time in three games and the sixth time since the All-Star break. Beckham got the Orioles started with his 16th homer, but it was Machado's slam that broke open the game as part of Baltimore's six-run second inning. Machado drove a 1-2 pitch into the first row of the second deck in left field for his 23rd home of the season and second grand slam in of the road trip.
Since July 30, Machado is hitting .386 with five home runs and 20 RBI.
"You look at where he is statistically and where he was tells you how much he's been grinding," Baltimore manager Buck Showalter said. "... He's been really swinging the bat well for us. He's dug out of a big hole."
Trey Mancini hit his 21st homer and Seth Smith added his 12th to turn it into a blowout.
That was plenty of runs for Baltimore starter Kevin Gausman (9-8), who stumbled early before settling into a groove. Gausman retired 12 of 13 at one point, the stretch broken up by Mike Zunino's homer leading off the fifth inning.
Gausman allowed one earned run in seven innings, scattering six hits and striking out six. It was the fifth time in his last six starts Gausman allowed one earned run or less and just the second time in 14 career road starts against AL West teams he got the victory.
The most important stretch for Gausman came in the first inning. Seattle had already scored once and had runners on second and third with no outs. Gausman struck out Nelson Cruz and Kyle Seager back-to-back and got a groundout from Guillermo Heredia to avoid further damage.
"After Buck told me I was out of the game, he told me I won the game in the first inning," Gausman said. "Obviously I'm not trying to give back that run right away but I knew if I could make good quality pitches and mix my pitches I had a chance to get out of that inning."
Meanwhile, Seattle's sudden fade from the wild-card race continued. The Mariners lost their fifth straight -- all at home -- coming off a nine-game road trip where they went 6-3 and were holding the second wild-card spot in the AL.
"I look where we're at now and where we were at five days ago or six days ago, it's like wow, you can't believe it's the same club," Seattle manager Scott Servais said. "But it is baseball and we'll turn around and get going back in the right direction, but it needs to start happening here pretty soon."
Starting pitching continued to be the primary issue for Seattle. Yovani Gallardo (5-8) was tagged for eight runs and failed to record an out in the fifth inning. He pitched that deep as Seattle tried to save its overworked bullpen. Casey Lawrence gave up a two-run homer to Smith in the fifth inning and a solo shot to Mancini in the seventh.
Cruz hit his 29th homer in the ninth inning for Seattle.
BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM
Since being acquired from Tampa Bay, Beckham has been surging at the plate. Beckham is hitting .500 with four home runs and 10 RBI in the past 14 games. He has at least one hit in 13 of the 14.
MORE SHUFFLING
The constant roster churn of Seattle's bullpen continued with the addition hard-throwing right-hander Thyago Vieira on Monday. Vieira, 24, made his major league debut pitching a perfect ninth inning and hitting triple-digits on the stadium radar gun. The Brazilian was part of the World Team for the All-Star Futures Game this year.
Seattle optioned RHP Christian Bergman to clear a roster spot.
UP NEXT
Orioles: LHP Wade Miley (6-9) makes his 25th start and will be going for this third straight win. Miley allowed no earned runs in seven innings in his last start.
Mariners: Andrew Albers will be added to the 25-man roster and start in the majors for the first time since September 2016 as Tuesday's starter. At least temporarily, Albers takes the spot in the rotation held by James Paxton, who is on the disabled list with a strained pectoral.
He proved himself wrong.
"Nah, no chance," Machado said. "Just good swings. Trying to get back into my routine, doing the things I need to do and I got a good pitch to hit."
Tim Beckham hit the first pitch of the game out for his first career leadoff homer, Machado hit the sixth grand slam of his career an inning later, and the Baltimore Orioles routed the Seattle Mariners 11-3 on Monday night.
Baltimore pounded Seattle's pitching, scoring double-digit runs for the second time in three games and the sixth time since the All-Star break. Beckham got the Orioles started with his 16th homer, but it was Machado's slam that broke open the game as part of Baltimore's six-run second inning. Machado drove a 1-2 pitch into the first row of the second deck in left field for his 23rd home of the season and second grand slam in of the road trip.
Since July 30, Machado is hitting .386 with five home runs and 20 RBI.
"You look at where he is statistically and where he was tells you how much he's been grinding," Baltimore manager Buck Showalter said. "... He's been really swinging the bat well for us. He's dug out of a big hole."
Trey Mancini hit his 21st homer and Seth Smith added his 12th to turn it into a blowout.
That was plenty of runs for Baltimore starter Kevin Gausman (9-8), who stumbled early before settling into a groove. Gausman retired 12 of 13 at one point, the stretch broken up by Mike Zunino's homer leading off the fifth inning.
Gausman allowed one earned run in seven innings, scattering six hits and striking out six. It was the fifth time in his last six starts Gausman allowed one earned run or less and just the second time in 14 career road starts against AL West teams he got the victory.
The most important stretch for Gausman came in the first inning. Seattle had already scored once and had runners on second and third with no outs. Gausman struck out Nelson Cruz and Kyle Seager back-to-back and got a groundout from Guillermo Heredia to avoid further damage.
"After Buck told me I was out of the game, he told me I won the game in the first inning," Gausman said. "Obviously I'm not trying to give back that run right away but I knew if I could make good quality pitches and mix my pitches I had a chance to get out of that inning."
Meanwhile, Seattle's sudden fade from the wild-card race continued. The Mariners lost their fifth straight -- all at home -- coming off a nine-game road trip where they went 6-3 and were holding the second wild-card spot in the AL.
"I look where we're at now and where we were at five days ago or six days ago, it's like wow, you can't believe it's the same club," Seattle manager Scott Servais said. "But it is baseball and we'll turn around and get going back in the right direction, but it needs to start happening here pretty soon."
Starting pitching continued to be the primary issue for Seattle. Yovani Gallardo (5-8) was tagged for eight runs and failed to record an out in the fifth inning. He pitched that deep as Seattle tried to save its overworked bullpen. Casey Lawrence gave up a two-run homer to Smith in the fifth inning and a solo shot to Mancini in the seventh.
Cruz hit his 29th homer in the ninth inning for Seattle.
BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM
Since being acquired from Tampa Bay, Beckham has been surging at the plate. Beckham is hitting .500 with four home runs and 10 RBI in the past 14 games. He has at least one hit in 13 of the 14.
MORE SHUFFLING
The constant roster churn of Seattle's bullpen continued with the addition hard-throwing right-hander Thyago Vieira on Monday. Vieira, 24, made his major league debut pitching a perfect ninth inning and hitting triple-digits on the stadium radar gun. The Brazilian was part of the World Team for the All-Star Futures Game this year.
Seattle optioned RHP Christian Bergman to clear a roster spot.
UP NEXT
Orioles: LHP Wade Miley (6-9) makes his 25th start and will be going for this third straight win. Miley allowed no earned runs in seven innings in his last start.
Mariners: Andrew Albers will be added to the 25-man roster and start in the majors for the first time since September 2016 as Tuesday's starter. At least temporarily, Albers takes the spot in the rotation held by James Paxton, who is on the disabled list with a strained pectoral.
10:10PM,EDT,August 14,2017
Safeco Field, Seattle,Washington
Safeco Field, Seattle,Washington
| View: Play-By-Play | Pitch-By-Pitch | Inning: All | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| Baltimore - Top of 1st | SCORE | |
|---|---|---|
| Yovani Gallardo pitching for Seattle | BAL | SEA |
| Beckham homered to right (365 feet). | 1 | 0 |
| Machado grounded out to second. | 1 | 0 |
| Schoop struck out swinging. | 1 | 0 |
| Jones flied out to right. | 1 | 0 |
| 1 Runs, 1 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Seattle - Bottom of 1st | SCORE | |
| Kevin Gausman pitching for Baltimore | BAL | SEA |
| Segura doubled to right. | 1 | 0 |
| Alonso doubled to deep center, Segura scored. | 1 | 1 |
| Canó singled to right center, Alonso to third, Canó to second on throwing error by shortstop Beckham. | 1 | 1 |
| Cruz struck out swinging. | 1 | 1 |
| Seager struck out swinging. | 1 | 1 |
| Heredia grounded out to shortstop. | 1 | 1 |
| 1 Runs, 3 Hits, 1 Errors | ||
| Baltimore - Top of 2nd | SCORE | |
| Yovani Gallardo pitching for Seattle | BAL | SEA |
| Mancini popped out to third. | 1 | 1 |
| Trumbo doubled to deep right center. | 1 | 1 |
| Davis doubled to deep left, Trumbo scored. | 2 | 1 |
| Smith singled to left, Davis to third. | 2 | 1 |
| Joseph grounded into fielder's choice to third, Davis scored, Smith to second. | 3 | 1 |
| Beckham singled to right, Smith to third, Joseph to second. | 3 | 1 |
| Machado homered to left (430 feet), Smith, Joseph and Beckham scored. | 7 | 1 |
| Schoop grounded out to pitcher. | 7 | 1 |
| Jones singled to left. | 7 | 1 |
| Mancini walked, Jones to second. | 7 | 1 |
| Trumbo struck out swinging. | 7 | 1 |
| 6 Runs, 6 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Seattle - Bottom of 2nd | SCORE | |
| Kevin Gausman pitching for Baltimore | BAL | SEA |
| Gamel grounded out to second. | 7 | 1 |
| Zunino reached on infield single to third, Zunino to second on throwing error by third baseman Machado. | 7 | 1 |
| Dyson lined out to center. | 7 | 1 |
| Segura flied out to center. | 7 | 1 |
| 0 Runs, 1 Hits, 1 Errors | ||
| Baltimore - Top of 3rd | SCORE | |
| Yovani Gallardo pitching for Seattle | BAL | SEA |
| Davis struck out swinging. | 7 | 1 |
| Smith flied out to right. | 7 | 1 |
| Joseph grounded out to shortstop. | 7 | 1 |
| 0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Seattle - Bottom of 3rd | SCORE | |
| Kevin Gausman pitching for Baltimore | BAL | SEA |
| Alonso flied out to left. | 7 | 1 |
| Canó flied out to left. | 7 | 1 |
| Cruz flied out to right. | 7 | 1 |
| 0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Baltimore - Top of 4th | SCORE | |
| Yovani Gallardo pitching for Seattle | BAL | SEA |
| Beckham reached on infield single to shortstop. | 7 | 1 |
| Machado grounded into double play, third to second to first, Beckham out at second. | 7 | 1 |
| Schoop struck out swinging. | 7 | 1 |
| 0 Runs, 1 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Seattle - Bottom of 4th | SCORE | |
| Kevin Gausman pitching for Baltimore | BAL | SEA |
| Seager struck out swinging. | 7 | 1 |
| Heredia struck out swinging. | 7 | 1 |
| Gamel grounded out to second. | 7 | 1 |
| 0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Baltimore - Top of 5th | SCORE | |
| Yovani Gallardo pitching for Seattle | BAL | SEA |
| Jones doubled to deep right. | 7 | 1 |
| Lawrence relieved Gallardo. | 7 | 1 |
| Mancini struck out swinging. | 7 | 1 |
| Trumbo struck out swinging. | 7 | 1 |
| Davis singled to center, Jones scored. | 8 | 1 |
| Smith homered to right (396 feet), Davis scored. | 10 | 1 |
| Joseph struck out swinging. | 10 | 1 |
| 3 Runs, 3 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Seattle - Bottom of 5th | SCORE | |
| Kevin Gausman pitching for Baltimore | BAL | SEA |
| Zunino homered to right center (378 feet). | 10 | 2 |
| Dyson walked. | 10 | 2 |
| Segura flied out to center, Dyson out at second. | 10 | 2 |
| Alonso flied out to right. | 10 | 2 |
| 1 Runs, 1 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Baltimore - Top of 6th | SCORE | |
| Casey Lawrence pitching for Seattle | BAL | SEA |
| Espinosa at third base. | 10 | 2 |
| Heredia in center field. | 10 | 2 |
| Gamel in left field. | 10 | 2 |
| Valencia in right field. | 10 | 2 |
| Beckham popped out to shortstop. | 10 | 2 |
| Machado lined out to left. | 10 | 2 |
| Schoop singled to center. | 10 | 2 |
| Jones struck out swinging. | 10 | 2 |
| 0 Runs, 1 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Seattle - Bottom of 6th | SCORE | |
| Kevin Gausman pitching for Baltimore | BAL | SEA |
| Canó grounded out to second. | 10 | 2 |
| Cruz struck out swinging. | 10 | 2 |
| Valencia grounded out to second. | 10 | 2 |
| 0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Baltimore - Top of 7th | SCORE | |
| Casey Lawrence pitching for Seattle | BAL | SEA |
| Mancini homered to right (364 feet). | 11 | 2 |
| Trumbo popped out to shortstop. | 11 | 2 |
| Davis singled to right. | 11 | 2 |
| Smith grounded into fielder's choice to shortstop, Davis out at second. | 11 | 2 |
| Joseph grounded into fielder's choice to third, Smith out at second. | 11 | 2 |
| 1 Runs, 2 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Seattle - Bottom of 7th | SCORE | |
| Kevin Gausman pitching for Baltimore | BAL | SEA |
| Rickard in right field. | 11 | 2 |
| Heredia singled to right. | 11 | 2 |
| Gamel fouled out to catcher. | 11 | 2 |
| Zunino grounded into fielder's choice to second, Heredia out at second. | 11 | 2 |
| Espinosa struck out swinging. | 11 | 2 |
| 0 Runs, 1 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Baltimore - Top of 8th | SCORE | |
| Casey Lawrence pitching for Seattle | BAL | SEA |
| Beckham struck out swinging. | 11 | 2 |
| Machado singled to left center. | 11 | 2 |
| Schoop singled to left, Machado to second. | 11 | 2 |
| Gentry hit for Jones. | 11 | 2 |
| Gentry walked, Machado to third, Schoop to second. | 11 | 2 |
| Mancini flied out to right. | 11 | 2 |
| Trumbo flied out to center. | 11 | 2 |
| 0 Runs, 2 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Seattle - Bottom of 8th | SCORE | |
| Miguel Castro pitching for Baltimore | BAL | SEA |
| Gentry in center field. | 11 | 2 |
| Castro relieved Gausman. | 11 | 2 |
| Segura grounded out to shortstop. | 11 | 2 |
| Alonso struck out swinging. | 11 | 2 |
| Canó lined out to right. | 11 | 2 |
| 0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Baltimore - Top of 9th | SCORE | |
| Thyago Vieira pitching for Seattle | BAL | SEA |
| Vieira relieved Lawrence. | 11 | 2 |
| Davis lined out to pitcher. | 11 | 2 |
| Rickard struck out looking. | 11 | 2 |
| Joseph grounded out to third. | 11 | 2 |
| 0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Seattle - Bottom of 9th | SCORE | |
| Miguel Castro pitching for Baltimore | BAL | SEA |
| Tejada at second base. | 11 | 2 |
| Cruz homered to left (380 feet). | 11 | 3 |
| Valencia grounded out to shortstop. | 11 | 3 |
| Heredia singled to center. | 11 | 3 |
| Gamel walked, Heredia to second. | 11 | 3 |
| Zunino struck out swinging. | 11 | 3 |
| Espinosa struck out looking. | 11 | 3 |
| 1 Runs, 2 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Baltimore Orioles | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hitters | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | #P | AVG | OBP | SLG |
| Beckham SS | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16 | .296 | .344 | .483 |
| Machado 3B | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 15 | .260 | .317 | .475 |
| Schoop 2B | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 23 | .303 | .352 | .538 |
Tejada 2B
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .230 | .293 | .283 |
| Jones CF | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16 | .275 | .313 | .463 |
a-Gentry PH-CF
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | .215 | .300 | .304 |
| Mancini LF | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 22 | .294 | .343 | .526 |
| Trumbo DH | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18 | .240 | .300 | .412 |
| Davis 1B | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 20 | .220 | .318 | .428 |
| Smith RF | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 16 | .273 | .353 | .472 |
Rickard RF
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .257 | .293 | .372 |
| Joseph C | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 26 | .281 | .311 | .453 |
| Totals | 43 | 11 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 10 | 183 | |||
| a-walked for A Jones in the 8th | ||||||||||
| BATTING 2B: Trumbo (20, Gallardo); Davis (10, Gallardo); Jones (19, Gallardo) HR: Beckham (16, 1st inning off Gallardo 0 on, 0 Out); Machado (23, 2nd inning off Gallardo 3 on, 1 Out); Smith (12, 5th inning off Lawrence 1 on, 2 Out); Mancini (21, 7th inning off Lawrence 0 on, 0 Out) RBI: Beckham (46), Davis 2 (46), Joseph (25), Machado 4 (73), Smith 2 (28), Mancini (62) 2-out RBI: Davis, Smith 2 GIDP: Machado Orioles RISP: 5-11 (Machado 1-1, Davis 2-2, Smith 1-1, Joseph 0-1, Mancini 0-2, Beckham 1-1, Trumbo 0-3) Team LOB: 7 | ||||||||||
| FIELDING E: Beckham (15, throw); Machado (12, throw) DP: 1 (Jones-Beckham). Outfield Assist: Jones (Dyson at 2nd base). | ||||||||||
Game Information
| Stadium | Safeco Field, Seattle, WA |
| Attendance | 17,973 (37.8% full) - % is based on regular season capacity |
| Game Time | 3:06 |
| Weather | 70 degrees, partly cloudy |
| Wind | 2 mph |
| Umpires | Home Plate - Gary Cederstrom, First Base - Gabe Morales, Second Base - Adrian Johnson, Third Base - Stu Scheurwater |
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