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Josh Naylor hit two home runs — his first two extra-base hits of the season — and drove in five runs as the host Seattle Mariners completed a four-game sweep of the American League West rival Houston Astros with a 6-2 victory Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n George Kirby (2-2) pitched 7 2\/3 innings for the victory, allowing two runs on seven hits. The right-hander walked one and struck out six.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Astros right-hander Mike Burrows (1-3) gave up six runs on 11 hits over six innings, with one walk and three strikeouts.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Naylor, signed to a five-year, $92.5 million contract in the offseason, entered the game batting .102 with an on-base plus slugging percentage of just .299. He went deep in his first two plate appearances.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n In the first inning, Cal Raleigh singled to left field with one out and Julio Rodriguez doubled off the glove of third baseman Carlos Correa. Naylor hit an 0-1 fastball from Burrows just over the fence in right-center to make it 3-0.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n <\/p>\n In the third, Raleigh led off with an infield single and, an out later, Naylor launched a first-pitch fastball 433 feet to center field for a 5-0 lead.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n The Astros, who have lost eight in a row and went 1-9 on their 10-game trip that also included stops in West Sacramento, Calif., to face the Athletics and also Colorado, got two runs back in the fifth. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n Cam Smith led off with a line-drive single to right, Taylor Trammell grounded a single to left and Yanier Diaz lined a run-scoring single to center. The second run scored as Kirby got Nick Allen, filling in after All-Star shortstop Jeremy Pena was placed on the 10-day injured list earlier in the day with a right hamstring strain, to ground into a double play.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n Rodriguez led off the bottom of the inning by lining a single to left and scored on Luke Raley’s two-out grounder into right field to make it 6-2.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n The Astros also placed right-hander Tatsuya Imai on the 15-day IL with arm fatigue, their third starting pitcher to go on the list in the past week.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n –Field Level Media<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n