But the four-plus innings were a grind of long counts, runners on base and hard contact.

Miller allowed a runner to reach base in every inning.

His teammates gave him a 1-0 lead in the top of the first, forcing Texas starter Jon Gray to throw 31 pitches in the first frame.

When J.P. Crawford was scratched from the starting lineup about an hour before first pitch due to right oblique soreness, Josh Rojas was moved up to the leadoff spot.

He responded by starting the game with a triple to center field on Gray’s fourth pitch of the game. Rojas would later score on Mitch Haniger’s fielder’s choice to first base.

But the first inning wasn’t much easier for Miller. He needed 28 pitches to get three outs. He struck out Semien, then issued back-to-back, one-out walks to Corey Seager and Nathaniel Lowe and came back to strikeout Adolis Garcia and Evan Carter.

The Rangers put 10 balls in play off Miller in his outing. All but two had exit velocities of more than 100 mph.

Garcia blasted a two-seamer over the wall in center to tie the game. Carter took advantage of a splitter left up in the zone, launching it into the seats in right-center to put the Rangers up 2-1 in the fourth inning.

Texas added three more runs against the Mariners’ bullpen, taking advantage of two errors.

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