SEATTLE — Maikel Franco and Arron Altherr homered and Aaron Nola allowed two runs over seven innings as the Philadelphia Phillies overcame an early deficit for an 8-2 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night.
Franco opened the seventh with his 10th home run, sending a 1-0 pitch from James Paxton over the wall in left-center to put the Phillies up 3-2.
The Phillies made it 4-2 in the eighth on an RBI single by Freddy Galvis and then added four unearned runs in the ninth, capped by Altherr’s two-run homer, his 13th.
Nola (5-5) gave up five hits, including Jean Segura’s two-run homer in the third. He struck out a season-high nine and walked four in a 113-pitch outing. Joaquin Benoit pitched a perfect eighth and Hector Neris struck out the side in the ninth.
Paxton (5-3) gave up three runs and four hits in seven innings. He struck out nine and walked three in losing his third consecutive decision.
The Phillies, who won for just the 11th time on the road against 31 losses, erased a 2-0 deficit in the fifth on two sacrifice flies. They loaded the bases on a double by Franco, Cameron Perkins’ infield single and a walk to Cameron Rupp. Ty Kelly followed with a sacrifice fly to center, with Perkins advancing to third. Daniel Nava delivered a sacrifice fly to right.
Segura staked the Mariners to a 2-0 lead with two outs in the third with his fifth home run, a two-run shot to right with Jarrod Dyson aboard on a walk.
Franco also helped preserve the lead in the seventh with a two-out diving stab at third of Segura’s hard-hit grounder with a runner at second.
Seattle threatened in the sixth when Ben Gamel walked leading off and moved to third on Robinson Cano’s single.
Nola escaped by striking out Nelson Cruz for the third time and enticing Kyle Seager into a double-play grounder.
