{"id":155585,"date":"2025-07-06T07:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T07:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/155585\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T07:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T07:35:13","slug":"williamson-has-rbi-double-castillo-strikes-out-8-in-7-innings-as-mariners-beat-pirates-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/155585\/","title":{"rendered":"Williamson has RBI double, Castillo strikes out 8 in 7 innings as Mariners beat 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>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Mariners\/status\/1941704466555863051\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:smacked it into the right-center gap;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">smacked it into the right-center gap<\/a> to put the Mariners in front.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/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>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Mariners\/status\/1941682266582974801\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Julio Rodriguez raced to and collided with the wall in left-center field;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Julio Rodriguez raced to and collided with the wall in left-center field<\/a> to take extra bases away from McCutchen.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/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>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/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":155586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[1151,5,4806,9097,465,3992,331,620,2053,363,4,877,64,619,65,3235,2100],"class_list":{"0":"post-155585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-mariners","8":"tag-andrew-mccutchen","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-ben-williamson","11":"tag-caleb-ferguson","12":"tag-george-kirby","13":"tag-julio-rodriguez","14":"tag-luis-castillo","15":"tag-mariners","16":"tag-matt-brash","17":"tag-mike-burrows","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-paul-skenes","20":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","21":"tag-seattle","22":"tag-seattle-mariners","23":"tag-seattlemariners","24":"tag-sixth-inning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114805140694410377","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155585","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=155585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}