Mariners Use Chaos Ball to Beat Astros in Game 2; Here's How It Happened
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The Seattle Mariners came from behind on Tuesday night to beat the Houston Astros, 4-2, at T-Mobile Park. With the win, the M's are now 30-26 and they remain in first place in the American League West. As we do after every game, here's how it happened:
The Overwhelming Story:
Frankly, this game looked another sleepy effort from the M's offense. Seattle scored in the first inning on a single by Julio Rodriguez to take a 1-0 lead, but then they went into hibernation against Hunter Brown, who entered with an ERA above seven for the season. Houston took a 2-1 lead in the fourth inning on a two-run homer by Alex Bregman before the M's rallied for three runs in the bottom of the eighth.
The Big Plays:
In the top of the first inning, Rodriguez inside-outed this fastball to right field to score Josh Rojas, who had singled and stolen second. This made it 1-0, Mariners:
Julio gets us on the board first! pic.twitter.com/VNjXrz8Yun
— Seattle Mariners (@Mariners) May 29, 2024
Defensively, Luke Raley robbed a home run off the bat of Jeremy Pena in the top of the second. He even flashed the "No fly zone" celebration back at Julio.
GET 🆙 , @lraley20! pic.twitter.com/HzUq1ESfg2
— Seattle Mariners (@Mariners) May 29, 2024
In the bottom of the eighth, Mitch Haniger led off with a double. Trailing 2-1 at the time, pinch runner Jonatan Clase advanced to third on a wild pitch and Ryan Bliss walked. After a strikeout, Rojas came to the plate and tied the game with this double.
Just Joshin'. #TridentsUp pic.twitter.com/pCu9AAKNck
— Seattle Mariners (@Mariners) May 29, 2024
Then, Rodriguez game the M's the lead with this infield single and throwing error that scored two runs.
"¯\_(ツ)_/¯" - @JRODshow44 pic.twitter.com/7vsGyCQt8A
— Seattle Mariners (@Mariners) May 29, 2024
Odds and Ends:
Luis Castillo got a no-decision after tossing 6.0 innings. He struck out six and gave up just the two earned runs...Austin Voth and Tayler Saucedo worked a scoreless seventh and eighth inning combined...Ryne Stanek got his third save of the year with Andres Munoz unavailable...Rodriguez went 2-for-4, adding his third straight multi-hit game...The top four hitters for Seattle each had hits...Brown went 6.0 innings and struck out nine....The win was key as Justin Verlander goes for Houston on Wednesday.
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