Cole Young and Luke Riley hit home runs and George Kirby pitched six strong innings as the Seattle Mariners defeated the visiting Cleveland Guardians 5-1 on Friday night to even their four-game series at one apiece.<\/p>\n
The Guardians\u2019 Chase DeLauter went deep for the third time in two games.<\/p>\n
Kirby (1-0) allowed one run on two hits. The right-hander walked two and struck out six.<\/p>\n
Guardians right-hander Gavin Williams (0-1) struggled with his command. He allowed three runs on two hits over five innings with seven strikeouts and walked a career-high six.<\/p>\n
DeLauter, who made his first regular-season appearance Thursday after debuting in last year\u2019s playoffs, homered with one out in the first inning for a second straight night. His fly ball to right-center field just eluded the glove of a leaping Raley at the wall.<\/p>\n
Williams held Seattle scoreless until the fourth. Randy Arozarena and Dominic Canzone drew walks and, with two outs, Young just cleared the fence in right to make it 3-1. Young, in his second season, led the team with six homers and 18 RBIs this spring.<\/p>\n
The Mariners extended their lead off reliever Colin Holderman in the sixth. Arozarena drew a leadoff walk \u2014 the Guardians challenged ball four but the video review went against them \u2014 and Raley followed by lining a two-run shot over the right field wall. It was Raley\u2019s second homer in as many games.<\/p>\n
All nine of the Mariners\u2019 runs through the first two games have come via the long ball. They hit four solo shots in a 6-4 loss in Thursday\u2019s season opener.<\/p>\n
Seattle\u2019s Cal Raleigh, the runner-up for American League MVP last season when he hit 60 homers \u2013 the most ever for a catcher and a switch hitter \u2013 went 0-for-4 with four strikeouts. Raleigh has fanned in all seven of his at-bats this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cole Young and Luke Riley hit home runs and George Kirby pitched six strong innings as the Seattle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2380],"tags":[5,135,51,2565,538,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-648206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-guardians","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-cleveland","10":"tag-cleveland-guardians","11":"tag-clevelandguardians","12":"tag-guardians","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116305507530264390","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648206","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=648206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}