Eugenio Suarez spoiled another gem of a start from Logan Gilbert with a run-scoring double in the seventh inning, and another ex-Mariner, Ketel Marte, drove in the winning run in the eighth for the Arizona Diamondbacks, who avoided a sweep with a 3-2 comeback victory over the Mariners on Sunday at T-Mobile Park.
Gilbert continued a dominant stretch for Mariners pitchers, scattering two runs and four hits over 6.1 innings, with one walk and nine strikeouts.
He had a 2-1 lead into the seventh inning when Joc Pederson hit a groundball double just fair, and just off the glove of a diving Ty France, down the first-base line.
Suarez, in his return to Seattle, then torched a 91-mph cutter off the wall in left field, a 105.5-mph double that scored Pederson for the tying run.
It was Suarez’s only hit of the series, and the last pitch Gilbert would throw Sunday.
Marte, part of the 2016 trade that brought Mitch Haniger to Seattle, then ripped a two-out double off the wall in right field to score Kevin Newman, who had drawn a leadoff walk against Mariners reliever Trent Thornton.
Thornton hadn’t allowed a run since March 30, ending his streak of 10 scoreless innings.
Josh Rojas, for the second time in three days, hit leadoff home run against his former team to give the Mariners a 1-0 lead.
Christian Walker hit a 422-foot homer way out to left field off Gilbert in the second inning to tie the score at 1-1.
The Mariners took a 2-1 lead in the third inning when Leo Rivas, making his major-league debut, hit a triple off the wall in right field in his first plate appearance.
Rivas then scored on Julio Rodriguez’s bloop single off Arizona starter Brandon Pfaadt.
But the Mariners wasted a prime chance to extend the lead in the third when they loaded the bases with no outs. Pfaadt was able to escape when he got Ty France to hit a soft fly out to left fielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr., who made a nice catch sliding on his knees and forcing Rojas to hold up at third base.
Mitch Garver then hit into an inning-ending 5-4-3 double play.
