Woo dominant as Mariners down Diamondbacks 5‑1
SEATTLE (Interstat) — Bryan Woo pitched seven dominant innings and the Seattle Mariners hit four home runs to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-1 Saturday night at T-Mobile Park in front of 44,364 fans.
The game lasted 2 hours, 31 minutes.
Woo allowed two hits, no earned runs and struck out nine while walking none. He threw 95 pitches, 67 for strikes. The right-hander improved to 5-3 on the season, lowering his earned run average to 3.12.
Ryne Nelson took the loss for Arizona, falling to 2-4. The right-hander allowed four runs on five hits over five innings, walking one and striking out three. He was charged with four earned runs.
The Mariners wasted little time getting on the board. With one out in the bottom of the second inning, Luke Raley launched a 1-2 fastball over the right-center field wall for his 13th home run of the season, tying the game at 1-1. Two batters later, Dominic Canzone followed with a solo shot to right-center field, his sixth homer of the year, giving Seattle a 2-1 lead.
Seattle added two more runs in the third inning. Colt Emerson led off with a homer to right field, his second of the season, making it 3-1. After J.P. Crawford flied out, Julio Rodríguez crushed a fastball to center field for his 12th home run of the season, extending the lead to 4-1.
The Mariners added a run in the sixth inning. Randy Arozarena reached on a throwing error by third baseman Jose Fernandez and advanced to second. Raley singled to left, moving Arozarena to third. Cole Young then lifted a sacrifice fly to right field, scoring Arozarena and making it 5-1.
Arizona’s only run came in the top of the ninth inning. Geraldo Perdomo walked with two outs, but Gabriel Moreno grounded out to shortstop to end the game.
The Diamondbacks managed just three hits in the game. Adrian Del Castillo singled in the fifth inning, and Ildemaro Vargas singled in the same frame. Ryan Waldschmidt singled in the eighth inning. Arizona struck out 10 times and did not draw a walk until Perdomo’s free pass in the ninth.
Seattle collected nine hits. Raley went 2 for 3 with a home run and an RBI. Canzone went 2 for 4 with a home run, a double and an RBI. Rodríguez went 2 for 4 with a home run, a double and an RBI. Cole Young went 1 for 3 with a sacrifice fly and an RBI. J.P. Crawford had one hit in four at-bats. Emerson had one hit, a home run, in three at-bats.
Arizona left five runners on base. Seattle left five.
The Diamondbacks fell to 31-26, while the Mariners improved to 30-29.
Arizona entered the game having won four of its previous five, including a 6-2 win at San Francisco on Monday and a 7-5 win at San Francisco on Tuesday. The Diamondbacks dropped the series opener against Seattle 7-6 in 10 innings on Friday.
Seattle had won its previous three games before Friday, sweeping a three-game series at from Monday through Wednesday. The Mariners’ win Saturday gave them their fourth victory in five games.
The Diamondbacks and Mariners will meet again Sunday at T-Mobile Park in the series finale. Arizona will then return home for a four-game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers starting Monday. Seattle will host the New York Mets for a three-game series starting Monday.
Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Arizona Diamondbacks 8, Seattle Mariners 5. Interstat’s ELO system had projected Seattle with a 53.90 percent probability to win. Seattle had been installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of minus 1.5. The total score of 6 went over the over-under line of 7.