CLEVELAND — Shaun Marcum allowed just two hits in seven scoreless innings and Giovanny Urshela hit his first major-league home run as the Cleveland Indians beat the Seattle Mariners 6-0 at Progressive Field on Thursday.
The right-hander Marcum (3-1) retired 18 of the 21 batters he faced. He retired the first nine before hitting first baseman Logan Morrison with a pitch leading off the fourth inning.
The only hits allowed by Marcum were a single by designated hitter Mark Trumbo in the fifth inning and a double by second baseman Robinson Cano leading off the seventh.
Marcum threw a season-high 106 pitches, 68 for strikes. He struck out five and did not walk a batter as the Indians (28-31) snapped a three-game losing streak.
Left-hander J.A. Happ (3-2) started for Seattle (27-33) but wasn’t around for very long. He threw 77 pitches in 2 1/3 innings, giving up four runs on six hits and two walks. He struck out three.
The Indians took a 1-0 lead in the second inning as right fielder Brandon Moss led off with a double and scored on second baseman Zach Walters’ one-out single.
The Indians took control in the third inning, when they scored four runs. Center fielder Michael Brantley led off with a single to right field and went to second on a single to right by left fielder Ryan Raburn.
Happ struck out designated hitter Yan Gomes, but Moss followed with a single, scoring Brantley to give Cleveland a 2-0 lead.
Happ was relieved by right-hander Tom Wilhelmsen. Third baseman Urshela greeted Wilhelmsen with a single, his first major-league hit, scoring Raburn to make it 3-0.
Wilhelmsen struck out Walters for the second out of the inning, but catcher Roberto Perez’s single drove in Moss and Urshela to extend Cleveland’s lead to 5-0.
It became 6-0 in the fifth inning. Left-hander Vidal Nuno retired the first two batters of the inning, but Urshela hit a 0-2 pitch over the left-field wall for his first major-league home run.
Urshela, who was recalled from Triple-A Columbus on Tuesday, was 2-for-4 with a home run and two RBIs.
Right-hander Zach McAllister relieved Marcum to start the eighth inning and retired the side in order.
Right-hander Cody Allen, Cleveland’s closer who hasn’t gotten any work during the three-game losing streak, pitched the ninth inning. One of the batters retired by Allen was Morrison, who was 0-for-3, which halted his career-high 16-game hitting streak.
NOTES: Indians 2B Jason Kipnis was given his first day off. Kipnis was the only player to have started each of the Indians’ first 58 games. … Before the game, the Indians recalled RHP CC Lee from Triple-A Columbus and optioned RHP Austin Adams to Columbus. … Mariners OF Nelson Cruz missed his second consecutive game due to back spasms.