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ST. LOUIS -- After rookie Martin Perez silenced the St. Louis Cardinals, his manager was non-stop with praise. "Ive always seen the stuff, but tonight was the first time I think he showed hes a big-league pitcher," Ron Washington said after the Texas Rangers 4-2 victory Saturday night. "It can be a huge step, he just beat a pretty good team. "He should be proud. I know we are." Nelson Cruz got the decisive hit for the second straight game with a two-run homer in the third inning for the Rangers, who have won four of five after losing six in a row. Fellow rookie Shelby Miller (8-5) allowed two homers for the second time in three starts and didnt make it out of the sixth against the team the Cardinals beat in the 2011 World Series, Texas was making its first regular-season visit to Busch Stadium. "Im not saying that if I make a better pitch I get them out, but both pitches were right down the middle, perfect pitches to hit," Miller said. "The first one was supposed to be in and the other one was supposed to be away, and both kind of ended up right down the middle of the plate." A.J. Pierzynski also hit a two-run homer for Texas, which goes for a three-game sweep on Sunday night with Nick Tepesch (3-6, 4.84) facing Adam Wainwright (10-4, 2.37). The first two games have been sellouts and the finale was supposed to be a matchup of aces, but the Rangers are saving Yu Darvish for the Yankees Tuesday in New York. They didnt want Perez to come up in New York, either. Perez (1-1) was recalled from Triple-A Round Rock where he was 5-1 with a 1.75 ERA. The lefty allowed a run in each of the first two innings but gave up just two hits the next five innings and retired the last 10. Though perhaps the Rangers top prospect, Perez entered 1-5 with a 5.40 ERA with seven starts. "I just had to do the same job Im doing at Triple-A," Perez said. "The first two innings I missed a couple pitches but after that I just said OK, this is my game." Joe Nathan wrapped up a game that had all of the scoring in the first three innings with a perfect ninth for his 24th save in 25 chances. The start of the game was delayed by rain 66 minutes. It was the second such delay this week. Earlier Saturday, Washington said he felt good about Cruzs tiebreaking two-run single in the ninth on Friday because the Rangers need wins, and not because Cruz needed redemption. The Rangers were an out away from taking the 11 Series when Cruz misplayed David Freeses game-tying triple in Game 6. Cruz snapped a 2-2 third-inning tie with a two-run homer, his 19th of the season to the opposite field in right. He also singled and has four hits and five RBIs the first two games of the series. Miller departed after bouncing a throw to first on a sacrifice bunt by Perez that loaded the bases with two outs in the sixth. Fellow rookie Seth Maness got Ian Kinsler on a groundout to end the sixth. Miller is 3-2 this month, the other loss coming when he gave up two homers and four runs on the road against the Mets. Manager Mike Matheny couldnt find fault with pitches that the right-hander left up. "He lives there, thats where his success is, so thats one of those two-edged swords," Matheny said. "Most of the guys in the league have a tough time catching up to him. You dont see many guys that see him the first time able to square balls up the first pitch they see on the top of the zone." The Cardinals have opened the scoring both games and took the lead on Allen Craigs RBI single in the first with Carlos Beltran just beating the relay to the plate from centre fielder Leonys Martin. The Rangers answered when Adrian Beltre doubled to open the second and Pierzynski lined the next pitch into the right field seats for his seventh homer. 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Thats about all he can do right now, so hes trying not to think about when he might be able to play again for the Los Angeles Lakers.SEATTLE -- On the day Felix Hernandez returned to the mound, Leonys Martin gave the Seattle Mariners the biggest boost.Martin hit his second home run of the game, a solo shot with one out in the 11th inning that sent Seattle over the Chicago White Sox 6-5 on Wednesday.Every time you win a ballgame, its good no matter how you win the ballgame, but this is a great feeling, Martin said.Martin hit a two-run drive in the second inning. He then drove an 0-2 pitch from Dan Jennings (3-2) over the wall in right for his 13th homer. His previous season high was eight homers in 457 at-bats with Texas in 2013.With two strikes, especially in the second half, hes taking some walks, hes not swinging quite as hard, Mariners manager Scott Servais said. I believe the pitch he hit out was an 0-2 pitch. Not trying to kill it, just hit it, because hes got a lot of ability.Vidal Nuno (1-1) pitched one inning for the victory.Seattle pulled within 5-4 on Mike Zuninos two-run homer in seventh. The Mariners tied it on Adam Linds solo shot in the eighth.The Mariners nearly won it in the 10th. Nelson Cruz drew a two-out walk and tried to score on Kyle Seagers double, but right fielder Adam Eaton threw out the Seattle slugger at the plate.Hernandez, activated off the disabled list earlier in the day, allowed five runs on 10 hits in 6 2/3 innings. He struck out two and walked two in his first start since May 27.It feels good to be out there, try and do my job to help my team to win, said Hernandez, who threw 94 pitches. I had a good sinker, got a lot of groundballs. They were swinging, they were swinging at every pitch and thats why my pitch count was pretty low.Todd Frazier hit a three-run homer in the first off Hernandez. Fraziers 28th home run tied him for the major league lead with Baltimores Mark Trumbo.It was a changeup. I left it up, Hernandez said. Fraziers got pretty good pop and put a good swing on it.Hernandez struck out Eaton to begin the game, but Melky Cabrera followed with a double into the left-field corner. Justin Morneau drew a two-out walk and Frazier connected for his third homer in three games.The White Sox added a run in the second on consecutive two-out singles by Tyler Saladino, Eaton and Cabrera to make it 4-0. Martin homered in the bottom half.Chicago pushed the lead to 5-2 in the fifth on a leadoff triple by Cabrera and Morneaus single.Seattle cut the led to 5-44 in the seventh on the home run by Zunino, also called up earlier in the day from Triple-A Tacoma.ddddddddddddIt was the third homer for Zunino, who hit two during an earlier two-game call-up.Lind, whose pinch-hit, three-run homer in the ninth inning gave Seattle a 4-3 victory on Monday, tied it with his 15th homer.The home run was our friend early, and then it became our enemy, White Sox manager Robin Ventura said. You give up enough of those, its tough to withstand it.Servais was pleased with what he saw from Hernandez.I think for the first time out, he was probably better than I thought he would be, other than the home run that he gave up to Frazier, Servais said. I thought his stuff was good, I thought he was pretty crisp, but after the first inning at that point if you had told me he was going to get as deep as he did into the game, I probably wouldnt have believed it.STRIKEOUT MACHIINEMariners rookie reliever Edwin Diaz fanned all three batters he faced in the eighth, giving him six consecutive outs by strikeout. The 22-year-old hard-throwing righty has struck out 42 in 20 2/3 innings, while allowing five runs.UPON FURTHER REVIEWIn the eighth inning, Seager was called safe at first ahead of a double-play relay. The White Sox challenged and the play was overturned. Lind followed with a solo homer.UP NEXTWhite Sox: RHP James Shields (4-11, 5.10 ERA) makes his ninth start for Chicago to open a four-game series at home against Detroit. Shields, acquired in early June from San Diego, is 2-2 with a 1.91 ERA in his last four starts.Mariners: Seattle opens an 11-day, eight-game road trip on Friday at Toronto. LHP James Paxton (2-4, 4.56 ERA) starts the opener, followed by Hisashi Iwakuma (10-6).TRAINERS ROOMWhite Sox: With LHP Carlos Rodon (wrist) not ready to come off the disabled list, RHP Jacob Turner will get his second start of the season Friday. He allowed eight runs on seven hits in four innings in an 8-1 loss to the Angels last Sunday.Mariners: SS Ketel Marte was out for the third straight game with an illness. He was not expected to travel with the team to Toronto on Wednesday night, pending a few more tests, but Servais said he hoped Marte would join the team in time for the series against the Blue Jays that begins Friday. ' ' '