SEATTLE - Danny Jansen's bat finally matched the noise the Texas Rangers were making around him.
The catcher finished 2-for-4 with a three-run homer and an RBI single, a season-high four runs batted in, as Texas rolled past the Seattle Mariners 10-5 on Tuesday night at T-Mobile Park. Corey Seager and Wyatt Langford also went deep, and Cal Quantrill worked six innings for the win.
The Associated Press account that ran with ESPN's recap framed the night as a three-homer outburst with Jansen's four-RBI line as the finishing touch.
ESPN's box matches that accounting: Jansen two hits, one home run, four RBI; Seager and Langford one homer apiece; Quantrill six innings, five hits, three runs, one walk, four strikeouts.
Early cushion, midgame surge
Seager answered the first pitch he saw from Bryce Miller with a 418-foot shot to right, putting Texas ahead before the first inning was old. Nicky Lopez, who went 3-for-3, singled home Langford in the second. Justin Foscue's two-run single in the fourth stretched the lead to 4-0, and Foscue finished 2-for-3 with two RBI.
Seattle's Lazaro Montes cut the deficit with a 474-foot three-run homer - the farthest Statcast-era blast at T-Mobile Park, the AP reported - but Texas answered immediately in the fifth. Langford's 438-foot two-run drive made it 6-3, and Jansen followed with a 391-foot three-run homer that scored Jake Burger and Lopez.
In the seventh, Jansen singled home Evan Carter for his fourth RBI of the night.
Carter added two hits and two runs. Burger walked twice and scored twice despite an 0-for-3 night. The lineup's depth mattered as much as the long balls: nine Rangers runs came across before Quantrill left with a seven-run cushion.
What Quantrill bought them
Quantrill (8-5) earned his fifth straight quality start, allowing three runs on five hits with one walk and four strikeouts on 93 pitches. ESPN listed his ERA at 2.89 after the outing. Robert Garcia worked a clean seventh, and Adam Macko closed the final two innings even as Seattle scratched across two more runs.
