ARLINGTON, Texas (Interstat) — Jake Burger’s two-run homer in the fourth inning and a go-ahead single in the sixth carried the Texas Rangers to a 5-4 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Friday night at Globe Life Park, snapping a two-game losing streak and pushing Texas back above .500.

Burger finished 2-for-4 with a home run and three RBIs, providing the bulk of the Rangers’ offense in a game that saw both teams collect 10 hits. The Mariners, who had lost three of their previous four games, fell to 51-53 while Texas improved to 52-51.

Wyatt Langford opened the scoring with a solo home run in the bottom of the first, his 12th of the season, giving the Rangers a 1-0 lead. Seattle answered in the second when Weston Wilson singled to right field to drive in Josh Naylor, tying the game at 1-1. The inning was aided by a walk to Naylor and a single by Cole Young, but the Mariners left two runners stranded when Randy Arozarena grounded out to end the frame.

Both starting pitchers settled in after that. Texas left-hander MacKenzie Gore worked five innings, allowing seven hits and three earned runs with five strikeouts. Seattle’s Bryce Miller lasted six innings, yielding eight hits and four earned runs, walking one and striking out three.

The Rangers broke the tie in the fourth. Ezequiel Duran led off with a sharp single to left field, and two outs later Burger crushed a line-drive homer to right field, his 18th of the season, scoring Duran and giving Texas a 3-1 lead.

Seattle responded in the top of the fifth. Colt Emerson singled and Arozarena followed with a single to put runners at first and third. After Julio Rodríguez flied out, Dominic Canzone doubled to center field, scoring both Emerson and Arozarena to tie the game at 3-3. Canzone finished 1-for-4 with two RBIs.

The game turned decisively in the bottom of the sixth. With one out, Brandon Nimmo singled to right field. Evan Carter walked, bringing Burger to the plate. Burger lined a single to center field, scoring Nimmo and moving Carter to third. Nicky Lopez followed with a sacrifice bunt that scored Carter, extending the Texas lead to 5-3. Elias Díaz singled to load the bases, but Michael Rucker, who had entered in relief for Seattle, struck out Alejandro Osuna and got Joc Pederson to pop out to end the threat.

Rucker turned in two scoreless innings of relief, allowing two hits and striking out three, keeping the Mariners within striking distance.

Seattle’s bullpen kept the Rangers off the board in the seventh and eighth. Texas reliever Tyler Alexander worked 0.2 scoreless innings, Jakob Junis tossed a perfect seventh with one strikeout, and Cole Winn got one out in the seventh. Peyton Gray, who entered in the eighth, worked a 1-2-3 inning with two strikeouts.

Down to their final three outs in the ninth, the Mariners mounted a comeback. Buddy Kennedy struck out to open the inning, but Emerson doubled to right field. Arozarena grounded out, moving Emerson to third. With two outs, Rodríguez grounded to shortstop, but a throwing error allowed Emerson to score, cutting the deficit to 5-4. The Mariners could not advance further, as the game ended on a groundout.

Jacob Latz came on to close for Texas, allowing one earned run on one hit with one strikeout in the ninth to earn his 19th save.

Peyton Gray (5-0) earned the win with a scoreless eighth inning. Bryce Miller (4-5) took the loss.

The most critical sequence came in the bottom of the sixth, when Burger’s single and Lopez’s sacrifice bunt turned a tie game into a two-run Texas lead. That margin proved just enough for the Rangers to withstand Seattle’s ninth-inning rally.

Attendance was 33,478, and the game lasted 2 hours, 47 minutes.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Texas 5, Seattle 4, and its ELO system gave Texas a 50.30 percent probability to win. Seattle had been installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of -1.5, and the total of nine runs went under the over-under line of 7.5.