Five-run 8th sparks Mariners to seventh straight win


Aug 9, 2023; Seattle, Washington, USA; Seattle Mariners left fielder Cade Marlowe (18) scores a run against San Diego Padres catcher Luis Campusano (12) during the third inning at T-Mobile Park.

Aug 9, 2023; Seattle, Washington, USA; Seattle Mariners left fielder Cade Marlowe (18) scores a run towards San Diego Padres catcher Luis Campusano (12) throughout the third inning at T-Cell Park.
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Cal Raleigh hit a tiebreaking two-run homer within the eighth inning because the Seattle Mariners defeated the visiting San Diego Padres 6-1 Wednesday evening

Seattle’s high pitching prospect, Emerson Hancock, pitched 5 strong innings in his main league debut because the Mariners gained their seventh in a row and for the twelfth time of their previous 14 video games to stay two again of Toronto within the race for the American League’s third and last wild-card playoff berth

The Padres suffered their fourth consecutive defeat

With the rating tied 1-1, Padres reliever Steven Wilson (1-1) walked Julio Rodriguez main off the underside of the eighth. With one out, Raleigh hit a 3-2 breaking pitch an estimated 450 toes off the highest of the home windows of the Hit It Right here Cafe on the second deck in proper area

Wilson then hit Teoscar Hernandez on an 0-2 rely, drawing a warning from the umpiring crew. Hernandez took second on a groundout and scored on Ty France’s double to right-center. Cade Marlowe greeted reliever Tom Cosgrove with an RBI single to middle to make it 5-1. Josh Rojas reached on a fielding error by first baseman Jake Cronenworth and pinch hitter Dylan Moore lined a run-scoring single to middle to cap the five-run rally

Mariners reliever Matt Brash (8-3) pitched a scoreless eighth inning for the victory

The Padres tallied with out the good thing about a success within the first inning off Hancock. Ha-Seong Kim drew a leadoff stroll, stole second and third, then raced residence on a Juan Soto dribbler to the primary base facet of the mound

Hancock allowed one run on two hits. The fitting-hander walked three and struck out three

The Mariners tied it within the third off Padres starter Yu Darvish. Marlowe led off with a single to proper and took a giant flip towards second. Outfielder Fernando Tatis Jr. tried to throw out Marlowe as he dove again to first, however the throw was low and bounced off the underside of Marlowe’s cleats and ricocheted towards the Mariners‘ dugout

Marlowe took second on the error then superior to 3rd on Rojas’ groundout to the best facet of the infield. He scored on J.P. Crawford’s sacrifice fly

Darvish went six-plus innings and gave up one unearned run on six hits. He walked two and fanned 4

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