{"id":710654,"date":"2026-05-28T02:57:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/710654\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T02:57:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:57:55","slug":"refsnyder-rodriguez-hit-3-run-hrs-as-mariners-top-athletics-9-1-move-into-1st-place-in-al-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/710654\/","title":{"rendered":"Refsnyder, Rodr\u00edguez hit 3-run HRs as Mariners top Athletics 9-1, move into 1st place in AL West"},"content":{"rendered":"

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Rob Refsnyder<\/a> and Julio Rodriguez<\/a> hit three-run home runs and Logan Gilbert<\/a> threw six shutout innings as the Seattle Mariners<\/a> beat the Athletics<\/a> 9-1 on Wednesday to complete a series sweep and move into first place in the AL West.<\/p>\n

Refsnyder hit a full-count changeup 368 feet to left field, scoring J.P. Crawford<\/a> and Josh Naylor<\/a> for a 3-0 lead in the first inning. <\/p>\n

Colt Emerson<\/a> hit his first MLB<\/a> triple in the fourth inning, driving in two runs, and Seattle added another run on a throwing error by Athletics shortstop Darell Hernaiz<\/a>, extending its lead to 6-0.<\/p>\n

Rodr\u00edguez capped the Mariners’ scoring with his 10th homer of the season in the top of the eighth inning. The 418-foot shot to left-center was his eighth homer in the month of May \u2014 tied for the most the 25-year-old has hit in any month in his big league career.<\/p>\n

Gilbert (3-4) struck out six and allowed five hits while walking two. The 29-year-old right-hander threw 91 pitches, 54 for strikes. Eduard Bazardo<\/a> and Cooper Criswell<\/a> worked the final three innings in relief.<\/p>\n

Jonah Heim<\/a> scored the A’s lone run on a double-play groundout off the bat of Jeff McNeil<\/a> in the bottom of the ninth.<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Spring (3-6) gave up five runs on six hits in five innings for the Athletics, while striking out seven.<\/p>\n

Seattle (28-29) moved a half-game ahead of the Athletics (27-29) in the division.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

RHP Luis Severino (2-5, 4.23 ERA) starts for the Athletics in a series opener against the visiting New York Yankees<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n

RHP George Kirby (5-4, 3.54 ERA) starts for the Mariners in a series opener against the visiting Diamondbacks<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Rob Refsnyder and Julio Rodriguez hit three-run home runs and Logan Gilbert threw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,22897,10947,37028,18522,76469,1400,1332,7530,94,3992,466,19,4,3226,12476,65],"class_list":["post-710654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-baseball","tag-colt-emerson","tag-cooper-criswell","tag-darell-hernaiz","tag-eduard-bazardo","tag-event_recap","tag-j-p-crawford","tag-jeff-mcneil","tag-jonah-heim","tag-josh-naylor","tag-julio-rodriguez","tag-logan-gilbert","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-athletics","tag-rob-refsnyder","tag-seattle-mariners"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116649964668065077","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710654","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=710654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}