SEATTLE -- Felix Hernandez turned in another dominant performance as the Seattle Mariners continued their journey back toward relevance with a 2-0 win over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night.

Hernandez (2-0) threw his first complete game, and his first shutout, since 2012 to give the Mariners (7-9) their second consecutive win and their fourth in six games. Hernandez scattered six hits while striking out nine. He threw 102 pitches to record his first complete game since beating the Twins 1-0 on Aug. 27, 2012.

Solo home runs by Nelson Cruz and Logan Morrison provided all the offense Hernandez would need.

Hernandez didn’t allow a baserunner until the fifth inning, and the Twins didn’t mount any kind of a threat until the top of the sixth. Hernandez even got out of that unscathed, having allowed back-to-back infield hits to open the inning before retiring the final three batters to protect the 2-0 lead.

Minnesota third baseman Trevor Plouffe had two hits, including a fifth-inning single that stopped Hernandez’s streak of 14 consecutive outs to open the game.

Twins starter Phil Hughes (0-4) suffered another tough-luck loss. He pitched an eight-inning complete game, allowing two earned runs off five hits while striking out nine. Minnesota (6-10) has scored just four total runs in his four starts this season.

Hernandez's season ERA dropped to 1.61 after the performance.

Solo home runs by right fielder Nelson Cruz and first baseman Logan Morrison helped the Mariners jump out to a 2-0 lead through five innings.

Cruz led off the second inning with a mammoth shot to left field, his ninth homer of the season, while Morrison added a leadoff home run in the fifth.

Seattle starter Felix Hernandez struck out the side on 13 pitches to open the game, then he went on to retire 14 batters in a row to start the game. Along the way, Cruz made a sliding catch in right field, and first Morrison made a leaping catch-and-tag. The Twins failed to get a single baserunner until Trevor Plouffe's two-out single in the fifth.

NOTES: Seattle RHP Hisashi Iwakuma (strained lat muscle) was placed on the 15-day disabled list Friday, retroactive to Tuesday. Iwakuma was originally scheduled to start Sunday's game; the Mariners have not yet named a replacement, although LHP Roenis Elias is expected to be called up from Triple-A Tacoma for the start. General manager Jack Zduriencik said that Iwakuma was feeling shoulder and back fatigue after his Monday start and again after a Friday bullpen session, prompting what Zduriencik called "a precaution." ... LHP Lucas Luetge, a reliever, was called up from Triple-A Tacoma to take Iwakuma's roster spot. ... The Mariners were coming off their third off-day of the season heading into Friday night's game. ... After the three-game series, Minnesota's only trip to Seattle this season, the Twins will begin a season-long 11-game homestand.