SEATTLE

What impresses Marshawn Lynch isn’t his streak of nine straight games with a touchdown or yet another 100-yard performance.

It’s that the Seattle Seahawks’ offensive line hasn’t missed a beat despite season-ending injuries to three starters over the last month.

“I see those guys come in every week and they strain, they put it upon themselves to make sure they know what they’ve got going on and what they need to be doing,” Lynch said after running for 115 yards and a 16-yard touchdown in the closing minutes of the Seahawks 30-13 win over St. Louis on Monday night.

Lynch topped 100 yards rushing for the fifth time in the last six games and Seattle (6-7) kept its slim playoff hopes alive by winning for the 13th time in its last 14 against the struggling Rams (2-11).

Seattle posted its sixth straight game with 100-plus yards rushing as a team. It’s the first time since 1996 that Seattle has posted six straight 100-yard efforts — a stretch that’s included Chris Warren, Ricky Watters and Shaun Alexander in the Seahawks’ backfield.

Lynch didn’t get the spotlight all to himself. Undrafted rookie Doug Baldwin had the best game of his young career with seven catches for 93 yards and a touchdown, and three huge special teams plays in the first five minutes.

Baldwin’s influence on the game was evident from the start, when he took a pitch from Leon Washington on a kickoff reverse and returned it beyond the 40. Seattle was later forced to punt, but it was Baldwin racing from the outside to down the ball at the Rams 6.

After Seattle’s defense forced a punt, Baldwin came entirely untouched off the right end and blocked the punt. The bounding ball hopped up into the arms of Michael Robinson, who went 17 yards to give the Seahawks an early 7-0 lead.

As a receiver, he disappeared until the third quarter when he snagged a 22-yard reception across the middle to convert a third-and-11 near midfield. Tarvaris Jackson found Baldwin and he got just inside the pylon to give the Seahawks a 14-point lead.