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SEATTLE -- With the blister on a finger of his pitching hand fully healed, Hisashi Iwakuma felt he could throw basically any pitch he wanted in an impressive seven innings. It looked much the same as his previous starts. Iwakuma retired 16 straight over one stretch, Raul Ibanez homered for the first time in nearly a month and the Seattle Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics 6-3 on Friday night. "He repeats. Hes so consistent with his delivery, his arm action, his arm slot, release point, its tough to see what is coming out," Seattle manager Eric Wedge said. "Thats what you have to do. If youre going to be a solid starting pitcher up here youve got to do that." Iwakuma (4-1) took a one-hitter into the sixth inning before running into trouble, putting together another strong outing to help cement himself and Felix Hernandez as one of the top rotation duos in baseball. Iwakuma has allowed five earned runs over his last five starts, and the number could have been even smaller if not for a scoring change that ended up tagging him with two earned runs against the As. Overshadowed by Hernandez, the ace of the Mariners staff, Iwakuma has been nearly as solid this season. Hes pitched at least six innings in seven of eight starts despite being bothered by a lingering blister on his pitching hand, and has not allowed more than three earned runs in any start. "Those two have just been on another level," Seattle third baseman Kyle Seager said. "Everybody knows Felix, obviously, but (Iwakuma) hes been flying under the radar a little bit but hes been just as impressive. Its been pretty fun to play behind those two especially." Iwakuma gave up a solid leadoff single to right field to John Jaso and then was unhittable for the next five innings. He set down 15 straight with remarkable ease, through a combination of broken bats, weak groundballs and lazy flies. He struck out Yoenis Cespedes to close the first, struck out Derek Norris and Jaso in the third and retired Josh Donaldson and Daric Barton swinging to end the fifth. Iwakumas streak finally ended at 16 straight retired when Eric Sogard reached on an infield single -- originally ruled an error -- with one-out in the sixth inning. His groundball bounced off the arm of shortstop Brendan Ryan and Sogard reached without a throw. Jaso followed with a bloop single, and the As finally got to Iwakuma on Jed Lowries two-out, two-run double into the right-field corner. Lowrie had just one RBI in his previous 17 games before the double. The scoring change cost Iwakuma a chance to have his ERA dip below Hernandezs for the best in the American League. Instead, Iwakumas ERA rose from 1.61 to 1.74. He gave up four hits, struck out nine and walked none. Tom Wilhelmsen pitched the ninth for his 10th save. "Its a mental relief being able to pitch with that much of a big lead is big for myself, so being able to pitch with a better rhythm helped me be able to go through seven innings," Iwakuma said through an interpreter. Seattle scored twice in the first off Oakland starter Dan Straily (1-1). Seattle broke the game open with Ibanezs three-run homer in the third inning that came with two outs. Oakland lost its season-high fifth straight and dipped below .500 since starting the season 1-2. The As fell to 2-6 on their current 10-game road trip and only once has Oakland scored more than three runs. "Everybody has to pick everybody up and were not doing that right now," Oakland manager Bob Melvin said. Straily struggled to get through five innings, but didnt get help from his defence starting in the first inning that led to two runs. Kendrys Morales chopper to left side bounced past both third baseman Josh Donaldson and Lowrie at shortstop to put runners at the corners with one out instead of a possible inning-ending double play. Michael Morse followed with an RBI single and Justin Smoak lined an RBI double to give Iwakuma an early lead. Seattles runs in the third also came thanks to a fortunate bounce. Seager reached on an infield single that spun awkwardly off the end of his bat. Straily gave up a two-out walk to Smoak that proved costly when Ibanez turned on a 1-1 pitch for his third homer of the season and first since April 14. "Its always nice to contribute and the last few games Ive played I guess have been better," Ibanez said. NOTES: Seattle improved to 16-8 this season when its starting pitcher works at least six innings. They are 1-11 when the starter fails to get through six. ... Seager scored three of the four times he reached base. ... 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Weber had a goal and two assists, and Roman Josi scored the shootout winner to lift the Predators to a 4-3 win over the Flyers on Thursday night. Yeezy Boost 350 Contrefaçon . Brad Jacobs and his Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., team took control of the game early. Tournament overview Most often, either captain Mahmudullah delivered or Khulna Titans fell away in their first season as a BPL franchise. He scored 396 runs, a whopping 193 more than the next highest scorer, Ariful Haque, and was the only consistent performer for the team.Khulna couldnt find a rhythm in the tournament: they didnt win more than two matches in a row and always had to wait for their captain to power them. In a team game, it is unfair to rely on the captain.Mahmudullah started the tournament by bowling those two amazing last overs in which he successfully defended seven and six runs against Rajshahi Kings and Chittagong Vikings respectively. In the other wins, Shafiul Islam and Junaid Khan played important roles too, but they were regularly required to defend low totals.Khulna tried seven different opening partnerships in 14 matches but none of them could put together a 50-run stand. Their batting just didnt work and in the process also got the lowest-ever BPL total of 44 runs.Mahmudullah faced repeated questions about their batting line-up while there were days when their fielding didnt back their bowling attack either. High point After they managed to beat Rajshahi in their first game by three runs, nobody expected them to do a similar thing against Chittagong in theiir next game, having made a lower total.dddddddddddd But Mahmudullah once again provided last-over magic with the ball.Low point Rangpur Riders spin attack sunk them to 44 all out, the lowest total in the BPL. They had no answer to deliveries from Sohag Gazi, Shahid Afridi and Arafat Sunny that spun and skidded when delivered in the line of the stumps.Top of the class While the likes of Junaid and Shafiul took 20 and 18 wickets respectively, they won most of their matches because Mahmudullah hung around with the bat till a crucial point. There was always panic in the batting line-up before and after him.Under-par performerNicholas Poorans T20 batting average wasnt great before the BPL, but what attracted the Khulna management was his 150-plus strike-rate. But, in this tournament, he batted at a strike-rate of 117.93 in 12 games. Khulna were expecting much more from this exciting talent.Tip for 2017 Khulna were one of the quieter teams in the tournament off the field, hardly raising an eyebrow. They would do well to continue in this manner as they build towards next years BPL, staying way from any hype and keeping their focus on building a stronger squad. ' ' '