ANAHEIM, Calif. — Zack Greinke had a season-high 13 strikeouts in five innings, and the Angels got home runs from Torii Hunter and Erick Aybar on Tuesday night in a 5-4 victory over the Seattle Mariners that kept Los Angeles two games behind Oakland for the second A..L wild card.

Mike Adams worked out of a bases loaded jam in the eighth inning and Mike Napoli and Geovany Soto homered to lead the Texas Rangers to a 3-2 victory over the Mariners on Sunday in Seattle and preserve a four-game lead over the Oakland A’s in the A.L. West. With Oakland’s 5-4 win over the New York Yankees earlier Sunday, the Rangers were looking to keep their distance over the A’s with a pivotal four-game series against them beginning in Texas today (Monday). Seattle nearly handed their division rival a devastating series sweep.

Michael Saunders hit a solo home run in the second inning, former Texas prospect Blake Beavan threw seven shutout innings against his former club, and the Seattle Mariners kept the Rangers from extending their lead in the AL West with a 1-0 win on Saturday night.

SEATTLE – Carlos Triunfel drove in the tiebreaking run in the fourth inning and Miguel Olivo hit a two-run homer in the eighth to lead the Seattle Mariners to a 6-3 victory over the Texas Rangers on Friday night. Hisashi Iwakuma (7-5) held the Rangers to three runs and eight hits in seven innings, and Justin Smoak had three hits and scored two runs for Seattle.

SEATTLE — Carlos Triunfel drove in the tiebreaking run in the fourth inning and Miguel Olivo hit a two-run homer in the eighth to lead the Seattle Mariners to a 6-3 victory over the Texas Rangers on Friday night.

SEATTLE – Adam Jones hit a two-run homer in the top of the 11th inning and the Baltimore Orioles won their 15th straight extra-innings game with a 3-1 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday night. A night after the teams played an 18-inning marathon that lasted nearly 6 hours, Jones, a one-time Mariners prospect, gave Baltimore a huge boost in its race with the Yankees for the lead in the A.L. East. Even with New York sweeping a doubleheader from Toronto on Wednesday, the Orioles stayed just a half-game back in the division race. Additionally, the Orioles moved into the top spot in the A.L. wild-card race after Oakland was handed a 6-2 loss in Detroit.

SEATTLE — Adam Jones hit a two-run homer in the top of the 11th inning and the Baltimore Orioles won their 15th straight extra-innings game with a 3-1 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday night.

With each inning that rolled by Tuesday night, the Seattle Mariners’ odds of winning kept falling. That’s because they were playing the Baltimore Orioles: a team deep in playoff intensity, a team that had beaten the Mariners six straight times, a team that had won 13 straight extra-inning games — including going 8-0 on the road.