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Joseph Hoyt

Rangers’ pattern of allowing ghost runners to score in extra innings is becoming a problem

ARLINGTON, Texas – Maybe the moral of the story is to not pitch to Seattle’s Eugenio Suárez.

For the second time in three games, the Rangers, normally quite good this season in closing out games, couldn’t get it done, losing 6-5 in 10 innings to the Seattle Mariners on Sunday.

Suárez was the reason why both times. On Sunday – two days after he hit a go-ahead, game-winning home run in the ninth – he hit a two-RBI double off of Rangers reliever Matt Bush to cap a three-run inning for the Mariners and tie the game at five.

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