Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Seattle 4, Cleveland 1
When: 10:10 PM ET, Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Where: Safeco Field, Seattle, Washington
Temperature: 55°
Umpires: Home - Angel Campos, 1B - Dan Iassogna, 2B - Dale Scott, 3B - Bill Miller
Attendance: 11343

Mariners 4, Indians 1:
Chone Figgins and Ichiro Suzuki homered in the first inning and Jason Vargas tossed seven strong innings as Seattle handed Cleveland its first road loss.

Vargas (2-1) allowed one run on four hits with seven strikeouts, and Brandon League worked a perfect ninth inning for his fifth save.

Figgins hit his seventh career leadoff homer off Derek Lowe (2-1), and Suzuki added to the lead with his first home run.

Cleveland, which was looking to open 5-0 on the road for the first time in 14 seasons, fell behind 3-0 when Lowe walked Jesus Montero with the bases loaded in the second inning.

Lowe threw 113 pitches in 4 1/3 innings, giving up four runs on eight hits and six walks.

The Indians cut the lead to 3-1 on Jason Kipnis' sacrifice fly in the third inning before the Mariners added an insurance run in the fourth on Dustin Ackley’s run-scoring single.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Cleveland shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera, who was placed on the bereavement list Tuesday following a family death, missed his second game. … The Indians scored eight or more runs in each of its first four road games. … League has converted all five of his save opportunities this season.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Cleveland   Seattle
Derek Lowe Player Jason Vargas
Loss W/L Win
4.1 IP 7.0
0 Strikeouts 7
8 Hits 4
8.31 ERA 1.29
Hitting
Cleveland   Seattle
Aaron Cunningham Player Chone Figgins
1 Hits 2
0 RBI 1
0 HR 1
2 TB 5
.333 Avg .667
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Cleveland 4 0 5 .138 12 9 1 4 0 0
Seattle 8 2 15 .276 16 3 4 7 0 1