SEATTLE (AP) - Justin Smoak's RBI single in the eighth inning, his third hit of the game, pulled Seattle even, Jack Cust followed with the go-ahead RBI single, and the Mariners rallied for a 4-3 win over the Texas Rangers on Tuesday night.

Seattle won for the sixth time in seven games, thanks to a gutty pitching effort from starter Erik Bedard and some clutch hitting in the late innings.

Down 2-1 entering the seventh, Seattle pulled even off Texas reliever Pedro Strop (0-1) on Ichiro Suzuki's double-play groundout that allowed Ryan Langerhans to score.

Texas regained the lead in the eighth on Elvis Andrus' squeeze bunt, but Seattle rallied with two in the bottom of the inning to hand the Rangers their third straight loss.

Seattle opened the eighth with a bloop single by Adam Kennedy that fell in front of David Murphy in left field. Miguel Olivo then dropped a sacrifice bunt to advance pinch-runner Jack Wilson, but Strop slipped fielding the bunt and Olivo was safe.

Smoak grounded a 1-0 pitch into the hole between first and second. The grounder bounced off Mike Napoli as he dived and caromed into right field, allowing Wilson to score and Olivo to reach third.

Darren Oliver replaced Strop and saw Cust line his first pitch back up the middle to score Olivo with the go-ahead run. Strop had allowed just one earned run in his first 10 appearances this season, but gave up three on Tuesday night.

Seattle reliever David Pauley (1-0) took over for Bedard in the eighth and saw Texas retake the lead when Julio Borbon led off with a single and scored standing up on Andrus' perfectly placed squeeze bunt. But Pauley limited the damage to just one run and Brandon League pitched the ninth for his eighth save in as many chances.

Smoak finished 3 for 4 with two RBIs.

But while Smoak continued to swing a hot bat, Bedard was the biggest story for Seattle.

The oft-injured, maligned lefty didn't allow a hit until Ian Kinsler's double leading off the sixth inning, even though it was a 1-1 game at the time.

Bedard couldn't throw a strike in the first inning in what looked like was going to be a short outing. He threw 33 pitches in the first, but then settled down to retire 14 consecutive batters during one stretch.