J.P. Crawford homered on the sport’s first pitch, Rowdy Tellez and Cal Raleigh added lengthy balls and the visiting Seattle Mariners topped the San Diego Padres 5-1 on Friday.
Seattle starter Logan Evans (2-1) tossed six scoreless innings, the longest of his 4 main league outings. The Mariners had been two outs from their second shutout of the yr earlier than Jake Cronenworth belted an RBI double towards Collin Snider.
Stephen Kolek (2-1), a former Mariners farmhand chosen within the Rule 5 draft by San Diego in December 2023, was the loser. He was coming off a complete-game shutout Saturday night time at Colorado, the primary by a visiting pitcher to perform that feat in Denver since 2013.
The Padres misplaced for simply the sixth time in 22 dwelling video games regardless of a three-hit efficiency from Luis Arraez. San Diego’s Manny Machado went 0-for-4, ending a 14-game hitting streak that was the second longest of his profession.
Coming off a 1-5 homestand, Seattle acquired off to the quickest begin conceivable. Crawford jumped throughout Kolek’s first-pitch fastball and lined it an estimated 357 ft into the precise discipline seats for his fourth homer of the yr.
Tellez made it 3-0 within the fourth. Cal Raleigh coaxed a one-out stroll, and with two outs, Tellez picked on a sweeper that drifted over the center of the plate and ripped it into the seats in proper, his seventh homer of the season.
Raleigh clouted his 14th homer within the sixth, following Julio Rodriguez’s leadoff single by lofting a two-run shot to left-center. Kolek left after permitting an infield hit to Randy Arozarena, having surrendered 5 runs on eight hits and a stroll in five-plus innings with 4 strikeouts.
In the meantime, Evans was in a position to get key outs regardless of working round visitors in each inning. He escaped a two-on, no-out spot within the third by getting Machado to hit right into a double play, then whiffing Jackson Merrill.
Within the fourth, Evans induced a lineout from Elias Diaz to strand Cronenworth after a two-out triple. He acquired a groundout off Machado’s bat within the fifth after Arraez doubled with two outs.
–Subject Degree Media