Taijuan Walker didn't pick up the win Wednesday afternoon. He didn't throw a complete game or put up crazy strikeout totals or touch 100 miles per hour on the radar gun. Statistically, the right-hander was exceptional but not spectacular.
His final line: Six innings, five hits, one earned run, four strikeouts and two walks. He threw 108 pitches, 74 for strikes.
He was in line to pick his first win of 2016 before reliever Joel Peralta gave up a solo homer to Delino DeShields in the eighth inning to tie the game at 2. The matinee went to extras, with Dae-Ho Lee snapping the Mariners' five-game losing streak with a pinch-hit, walk-off two-run homer off Rangers left-hander Jake Diekman.