<p>MINNEAPOLIS — Kyle Seager wasn’t sure he got all of the ball in his final at-bat.</p>
<p>He did.</p>
<p>Seager hit his second homer of the game, a three-run drive in the ninth inning to complete the Seattle Mariners’ comeback from a six-run deficit to beat the Minnesota Twins 8-6 Sunday.</p>
<p>Seager had four hits and Taylor Trammell also homered for Seattle, which trailed 6-0 going into the sixth. The Mariners won a road series for the first time since Sept. 11-13, 2019, at Arizona.</p>
<p>“We don’t get back in that game unless we hit the ball over the fence,” manager Scott Servais said.</p>
<p>Byron Buxton continued his early season success with a homer, double and single and Luis Arraez had a pair of hits for the Twins.</p>
<p>The Mariners trailed 6-5 going into the ninth. Mitch Haniger and Ty France opened the inning with singles against Alex Colomé and Seager followed with his homer.</p>
<p>“It felt good off the bat, was kind of clipped a little bit, so I knew it went really high. I was certainly hoping. But I figured I had enough to get it off the wall. When I saw (right fielder Max) Kepler working toward the wall it felt pretty good at that point,” Seager said. </p>
<p>Colomé (0-1) blew a save for the second time in four chances.</p>
<p>“Alex has tremendous late-inning experience and success at this level. He’s our guy and we trust him implicitly late in ballgames,” manager Rocco Baldelli said.</p>
<p>Drew Steckenrider (1-1) pitched a scoreless eighth before Rafael Montero earned his second save in four chances with a 1-2-3 ninth.</p>
<p>Buxton has eight hits in three games to increase his batting average to .500. His 1.231 slugging percentage is tops in the majors.</p>
<p>“Seeing the ball good. Just going up there and having a little bit more fun,” he said.</p>
<p>Up 1-0, Minnesota scored three runs in the third inning, two on a bases-loaded double the opposite way by Buxton, who has a hit in all eight games he’s played. He has at least one extra-base hit in seven of them. </p>
<p>Buxton added a towering 428-foot two-run home run to the bullpen in the fifth for a 6-0 lead and led to some in the crowd to chant “MVP!”</p>
<p>Minnesota starter Matt Shoemaker scattered three hits in five innings before falling apart in the sixth.</p>
<p>Seager hit a leadoff homer and Trammell launched a three-run shot for his second in as many days. As the ball was on its way beyond the right-field seats, Shoemaker had words for home plate umpire Manny Gonzalez and was ejected.</p>
<p>Seattle added one run in the seventh.</p>
<p>Against a Twins team averaging 6.1 runs per game, Seattle starter Chris Flexen allowed six runs — five earned— in five innings. He struck out seven.</p>
<p>GETTING HEATED</p>
<p>Buxton was hit in the shoulder by a pitch from Will Vest in the seventh and both benches were warned. Servais argued and was ejected.</p>
<p>France was hit on an up-and-in fastball from Cody Stashak in the top of the frame. France was also hit in the first.</p>
<p>“I thought it was ridiculous they gave us warnings,” Servais said. “He hit Buxton with a changeup … If you’re going to throw at somebody you don’t throw at somebody with a changeup, you hit somebody with a 95 mph fastball.”</p>
<p>TRAINERS ROOM</p>
<p>Mariners: 1B Evan White entered as a defensive replacement in the ninth. He missed the past two games with left quad tightness.</p>
<p>Twins: 3B Josh Donaldson (mild right hamstring strain), who is eligible to come off the injured list Monday, went through a Sunday workout at the team’s alternate training site. … On the DL since April 7, OF Brent Rooker (cervical strain) is ready to start doing some work at the team’s alternate site.</p>
<p>UP NEXT</p>
<p>Mariners: LHP Justin Sheffield (0-1, 7.20) is to open a four-game series Monday in Baltimore against Orioles RHP Dean Kremer (0-1, 9.00).</p>
<p>Twins: Open a four-game series Monday at Target Field against Boston with LHP J.A. Happ (0-0, 2.25) facing LHP Martín Pérez (0-0, 5.40) of the Red Sox.</p>
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