{"id":123638,"date":"2025-06-22T21:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T21:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/123638\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T21:27:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T21:27:13","slug":"solano-powers-the-mariners-past-the-cubs-14-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/123638\/","title":{"rendered":"Solano powers the Mariners past the Cubs 14-6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Donovan Solano homered twice and drove in five runs, helping the Seattle Mariners outslug the Chicago Cubs for a 14-6 victory on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Cal Raleigh hit his major league-leading 31st homer for Seattle <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mlb-heat-270e35e2cc36186690652acb00f3847b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on a hot and windy afternoon<\/a> at Wrigley Field. Dominic Canzone went deep twice as the Mariners won the rubber game of a weekend set that featured a total of 21 homers for the two teams.<\/p>\n<p>Raleigh connected in the first inning against Colin Rea (4-3). The <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/video\/colin-rea-in-play-run-s-to-cal-raleigh-wnsojl?q=Cal%20Raleigh&amp;cp=CMS_FIRST&amp;qt=FREETEXT&amp;p=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">two-run drive<\/a> to center field was his <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mariners-cal-raleigh-c4455ad64a9701202105c6ecc34da341\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fourth homer<\/a> of the series.<\/p>\n<p>Seiya Suzuki homered twice and drove in three runs for the Cubs in their third loss in four games. Kyle Tucker and Reese McGuire also went deep for the NL Central leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago trimmed Seattle\u2019s lead to 5-4 when Suzuki hit a two-run shot off Logan Gilbert (2-2) with two down in the fifth. It was Suzuki\u2019s 20th homer of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle responded with two runs in the sixth. Canzone hit his second solo homer of the day, and Julio Rodr\u00edguez added a run-scoring groundout.<\/p>\n<p>Solano made it 9-4 with a two-run shot off Chris Flexen in the seventh. Solano went 9 for 14 in the series with eight RBIs.<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>Seattle put away the game with five runs in the eighth against Nate Pearson. Randy Arozarena hit a two-run double and Solano capped the scoring with a two-run single.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>The Mariners improved to 9-3 in rubber games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Mariners RHP Bryan Woo (6-4, 3.12 ERA) starts Monday night in the opener of a four-game series at Minnesota. RHP Bailey Ober (4-4, 4.54) goes for the Twins.<\/p>\n<p>Cubs RHP Ben Brown (4-5, 5.57 ERA) takes the mound Monday night at St. Louis. LHP Matthew Liberatore (4-6, 4.08) pitches for the Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Donovan Solano homered twice and drove in five runs, helping the Seattle Mariners outslug the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2399],"tags":[760,5,3297,138,24,4245,1450,161,21670,8652,26057,1726,5163,14998,29,466,1453,4,256,878,1456,15567,65,105,185,10050,414],"class_list":{"0":"post-123638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-cubs","8":"tag-bailey-ober","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-cal-raleigh","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-cubs","13":"tag-chicagocubs","14":"tag-chris-flexen","15":"tag-cubs","16":"tag-dominic-canzone","17":"tag-donovan-solano","18":"tag-ian-snell","19":"tag-il-state-wire","20":"tag-illinois","21":"tag-julio-rodrguez","22":"tag-kyle-tucker","23":"tag-logan-gilbert","24":"tag-matthew-liberatore","25":"tag-mlb","26":"tag-mlb-baseball","27":"tag-nate-pearson","28":"tag-randy-arozarena","29":"tag-reese-mcguire","30":"tag-seattle-mariners","31":"tag-seiya-suzuki","32":"tag-sports","33":"tag-wa-state-wire","34":"tag-washington"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114729139907352127","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}