{"id":155331,"date":"2025-07-06T04:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T04:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/155331\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T04:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T04:55:11","slug":"castillo-williamson-lead-seattle-mariners-past-pirates-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/155331\/","title":{"rendered":"Castillo, Williamson lead Seattle Mariners past Pirates 1-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Ben Williamson had an RBI double in the sixth inning, Luis Castillo tossed seven innings, and the Seattle Mariners beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 1-0 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle Mariners 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 0: <a href=\"https:\/\/seattlesports.sports.gracenote.com\/baseball\/mlb\/boxscore\/672932\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Box Score<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Williamson, who came in with just one RBI since May 29, patiently waited on a cutter down in the zone from Pirates reliever Caleb Ferguson (0-3) and smacked it into the right-center gap to put the Mariners in front.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It was the only run they would need with Castillo (5-5) easily going through the Pirates\u2019 lineup.<\/p>\n<p>The right-hander gave up two singles while striking out a season-high eight. He needed just 99 pitches to tie his season-high for innings.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Brash pitched the eighth, and Andres Munoz got the last three outs for his 20th save.<\/p>\n<p>Pirates starter Mike Burrows gave up three hits and walked four while striking out six in five innings.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>Just two hitters into the game, Pirates designated hitter Andrew McCutchen got a hold of a four-seam fastball from Castillo. Mariners center fielder Julio Rodriguez raced to and collided with the wall in left-center field to take extra bases away from McCutchen.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>Castillo went at least seven innings for the 20th time in 92 starts with the Mariners.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Mariners RHP George Kirby (2-4, 4.85 ERA) will start against Pirates RHP Paul Skenes (4-7, 2.03) on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>More on the Seattle Mariners<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/brock-and-salk\/top-seattle-mariners-prospects-best-trade-chips\/1814710\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Which top Seattle Mariners prospects are their best trade chips?<\/a><br \/>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/mariners-bryan-woo-makes-it-clear-he-should-be-an-all-star\/1815691\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Mariners\u2019 Bryan Woo makes it clear he should be an All-Star<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/salmon-fell-from-sky-seattle-mariners-4th-of-july\/1815704\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A salmon fell from the sky before the Seattle Mariners\u2019 4th of July game<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/cal-raleigh-seattle-mariners-hardest-hr-career-high\/1815680\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mariners\u2019 Cal Raleigh hits his hardest HR, then sets new career-high<\/a><br \/>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/reliever-dfad-by-mariners-signs-with-mets\/1815735\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reliever DFA\u2019d by Seattle Mariners signs with Mets<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SeattleSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SeattleSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Ben Williamson had an RBI double in the sixth inning, Luis Castillo tossed seven innings,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[5,220,620,4,221,216,619,65,3235,185,219,218,217],"class_list":{"0":"post-155331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-mariners","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-home","10":"tag-mariners","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mynorthwest-com","13":"tag-mynorthwest-com-seattle-news","14":"tag-seattle","15":"tag-seattle-mariners","16":"tag-seattlemariners","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-talk-and-community","19":"tag-traffic","20":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114804511596775739","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155331","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=155331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}