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SEATTLE -- Despite some early struggles, Hisashi Iwakuma continued his roll on the mound and with it advanced the suddenly improving hopes of the Seattle Mariners getting back into the postseason conversation. Markus Wheaton Jersey .Those struggles were just a minor blip for Iwakuma on his way to another masterful performance, throwing seven strong innings in Seattles 3-0 win over the Detroit Tigers on Monday night.He is in a really good spot, a good roll and he feels that when he gets off mechanically for a few pitches hes able to correct it and get back on, Seattle manager Scott Servais said. A testament you dont have to throw 93, 95 to get them out in this league if you execute and make pitches.Iwakuma won for the seventh time in his last eight starts, backed by RBI singles from Mike Zunino and Kyle Seager off Michael Fulmer in the second inning as Seattle opened a key three-game series with its fourth straight win.The Mariners moved within 2 1/2 games of Detroit and Boston for the second wild card in the American League.The pitching is amazing, Seattles Nelson Cruz said. If we want to make a run thats what we need. Theyve been doing a great job.No one has been better for Seattle than Iwakuma. The right-hander allowed five hits and struck out eight, running his streak of scoreless innings at Safeco Field to 21 1/3. He retired 12 of the final 13 batters he faced, including striking out the side in the fourth.Iwakuma (13-7) has developed into the ace of Seattles staff, throwing at least seven innings in eight of his past 14 starts. And he got a little payback after being knocked around by Detroit in June, when he failed to make it through five innings and gave up five runs and 11 hits.When you give up a game you always think about coming back and repaying for that loss, Iwakuma said through an interpreter. Im happy that I got to do it today. Were on a streak right now and I dont want to stop the streak.The performance by Iwakuma offset another solid start from Fulmer. The Tigers rising star threw seven innings and allowed only two hits while striking out six. Three of Seattles five hits off Fulmer (9-3) came in the second inning when the Mariners took an early lead. The rookie suffered his first loss since June 17 -- also the last time the Tigers lost when he started.I feel like my misses were in the right spots. ... I think as far as that goes I didnt miss middle too much, Fulmer said. I think its just one inning and after that it felt great.For a change, the runs for Seattle didnt come via the long ball.Cruz led off the second with a double and scored when Seager rolled a ground ball behind Detroits defensive shift and into center field. Seager moved into scoring position when Leonys Martin walked with one out and scored as Zunino was strong enough to dump a broken-bat single over third baseman Casey McGehee and into left field.Seattle added a run in the eighth when Nori Aoki doubled with two outs and scored on Guillermo Heredias RBI single.Iwakuma and a pair of power arms out of the bullpen did the rest. Newly acquired Arquimedes Caminero pitched a perfect eighth in his Seattle debut and rookie Edwin Diaz pitched the ninth for his fifth save.HOME COOKINIwakuma won his eighth straight start at home, surpassing Felix Hernandezs club record. Hes the first AL pitcher to win eight straight home starts since Jerome Williams for the Angels during the 2011-12 seasons.ROSTER SHUFFLETigers: Left-hander Daniel Norris was recalled from Triple-A Toledo and will start on Tuesday night. The Tigers placed right-hander Bruce Rondon on the paternity list to clear the roster spot for Norris.Mariners: Starter Taijuan Walker was optioned to Triple-A Tacoma to open a roster spot for Caminero. Walker was roughed up for six runs in four innings in his last start. Ariel Miranda will take his spot in Seattles rotation.UP NEXTTigers: Norris (1-0) will make his fifth appearance of the season and fourth start. Norris was on the disabled list from July 5-Aug. 2 with a strained oblique.Mariners: Wade LeBlanc (1-0) makes his sixth start since being acquired by the Mariners. Seattle is 5-1 in his starts. Danny Trevathan Jersey . SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. Mike Singletary Jersey .com) - The women will also have a new champion at the Australian Open. http://www.authenticfootballshopbears.com/c-24-bears-kyle-fuller-jersey.aspx . Instead of dwelling on the negative, Oates focused on what was good about the clubs recent play. It worked. UCLA was the pick of the Pac-12 media to win the conferences South division.But the Bruins are 1/3 in the league for the first time in coach Jim Moras five seasons, and they will be trying to salvage any long-shot conference hopes when they play host to No. 19 Utah at the Rose Bowl on Saturday at 4 p.m. ET.The Utes (6-1, 3-1) are tied with upstart Colorado atop the South standings, with USC only a half-game behind.We have some tough games ahead of us looking us in the face, said Utah coach Kyle Whittingham.As of early in the week, it was unknown if UCLA (3-4) would have quarterback Josh Rosen available Saturday. Mora said he was very, very hopeful Rosen would be able to play after missing last weeks 27-21 loss at Washington State because of shoulder/leg injuries.Former walk-on Mike Fafaul completed 24 for 40 for 258 yards, with three touchdowns and two interceptions, against the Cougars. The bigger issue for the Bruins is that they rushed for just 43 yards, which has become something of a trend.UCLA is the third-worst rushing team in the country, averaging 91.1 yards per game. The Bruins have rushed 48 times for 42 yards in the past two games. Bad news for them: Utah is stout against the run, allowing 130.1 yards per game on the ground.The talent at running back -- Nate Starks, Soso Jamabo and Bolu Olorunfunmi -- is not the problem.Mora is promising changes to scheme, not necessarily personnel.When you cant run the ball its tough to do anything consistent on offense, he said.We have looked at it very, very carefully. We think weve identified some things that we can do that can help us have more success running the football, which hopefully will help us throw the ball more effectively. Hopefully, itll help us give the defense better field position, increase our time of possession ... do those types of things that can give us a better chance of winning.Mora said the offense would be implementing different kinds of things in the run game, but that he didnt want to talk about them.Utah has had its own issues in the run game because of injuries.The situation was so dire last week that the team coaxed running back Joe Williams back onto the team. He had retired because of injuries after the second game of the season, but he rushed 34 times for 179 yards as the Utes won 19-14 in wet and blustery conditions at Oregon State on Saturday. Brian Urlacher Jersey. I made the decision more for the team than myself -- just put it all on the line for them, Williams said Monday.Utah rushing leader Armand Shyne is out for the rest of the season, but freshman Zack Moss might be back this week from an undisclosed injury and freshman Devontae Henry-Cole has been taken out of a planned redshirt season.More injury news for the Utes: Safety Marcus Williams and linebacker Sunia Tauteoli left last weeks game with undisclosed injuries and were not on Mondays depth chart. Whittingham, always tight-lipped about injuries, only said that the injuries were not season-ending.The Utes rely more on efficiency than explosiveness on offense. They rank No. 79 nationally in scoring (26.7 points per game) and No. 61 in total offense (417.9 yards per game). Quarterback Troy Williams is completing just 56.6 percent of his passes, but he has not thrown an interception in the last four games, a span of 119 passes.Leading wide receiver Tim Patrick, who has caught five of Williams seven touchdown passes, missed the Arizona game two weeks ago and played sparingly last week because of an unspecified injury.UCLAs strength is its defense. The Bruins have not allowed an opponent to reach 400 yards in six consecutive games, the first time that has happened since 2010. Only one opponent all season has completed better than 53 percent of its passes against UCLA; that was Washington State at 58 percent.They have a lot of speed, a lot of athleticism, Whittingham said of UCLA. Our guys cant be fooled by the record because theyre a good football team and have a lot of good players.With no clear-cut leader in the South, its not out of the question that the Bruins could get themselves into a tie for first by the end of the season. 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