SEATTLE — Thanks to some relatively stable pitching and a lack of that same quality from the San Diego Padres, the Seattle Mariners were able to win the series on Wednesday night.
On the strength of four runs in four innings against Padres starter Yu Darvish — and primarily on the strength of Mariners slugger Eugenio Suárez, who hit a three-run home run in the fourth inning — the Mariners beat the Padres 4-3 on Wednesday in the finale of a three-game series that continued the American League team’s recent domination of the interleague “rivalry.”
The Padres actually had their best game among the three times they have faced Bryan Woo and were the first team in his 26 starts this season to get him out of a game before the sixth inning ended.
But two runs in the sixth inning against Woo and