Wearing short-sleeves, as always, while snow fell onto Safeco Field’s closed roof and a chilling wind blew inside, Millwood allowed only three hits and one runner past first base through five innings. But Ichiro Suzuki sliced a wicked liner off the glove of Young at shortstop for an error leading off the sixth.

"He hit it hard, but it’s a play I’d like to have back, for sure," Young said. "If he doesn’t get on, the inning might have a different look to it."

Suzuki then broke to steal second base—"I was cold," Suzuki explained— while Lopez got jammed on an inside pitch but squibbed a soft roller to the spot Ian Kinsler vacated to cover the steal attempt.

"My hands got lucky," Lopez said.