NEW YORK \u2014 Ryan McMahon and Trent Grisham each hit a two-run single in the seventh inning to send the New York Yankees past the slumping Seattle Mariners 4-1 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Ryan Weathers carried a one-hit shutout into the sixth and Luis Garc\u00eda Jr. sparked the decisive rally with his second double of the night for New York, which leads the American League wild-card race.<\/p>\n
Randy Arozarena homered in the sixth for the fading Mariners (56-64), who have lost five in a row and 14 of 19 to fall a season-worst eight games under .500. Seattle, which opened a nine-game trip against three teams currently in playoff position, has mustered only five runs during the losing streak and nine in the past seven games.<\/p>\n
Jazz Chisholm Jr. sent Garc\u00eda to third with a single in the seventh, and rookie Spencer Jones drew a one-out walk. McMahon gave the Yankees a 2-1 lead with a bases-loaded single off reliever Michael Rucker (0-4), and Grisham added his two-run single off Eduard Bazardo.<\/p>\n
Tim Hill (4-2) replaced Weathers with a runner on in the sixth and retired all four batters he faced. Brent Headrick struck out two in a perfect eighth and David Bednar got three outs for his 27th save.<\/p>\n
Chisholm was shaken up after trying to field Dominic Canzone’s infield single in the ninth, but the second baseman remained in the game and followed with a terrific defensive play.<\/p>\n
In a matchup between struggling lineups, both starting pitchers shined.<\/p>\n
Seattle right-hander Bryan Woo went five innings in his second consecutive scoreless start.<\/p>\n
Weathers extended his career-best shutout streak to 23 innings before Arozarena lined an opposite-field homer to the short porch in right, giving Seattle its second hit and a 1-0 lead.under<\/p>\n
The left-hander had set down 11 straight batters before that swing by Arozarena, a Yankees nemesis for years.<\/p>\n
Weathers allowed two hits and three walks in 5 2\/3 innings. Yankees starters have permitted no more than one run in 10 of the past 13 games.<\/p>\n
Mariners first baseman Josh Naylor was rested with a sore right wrist.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Mariners RHP Bryce Miller (4-6, 3.08 ERA) starts the middle game of the series Wednesday night against RHP Will Warren (8-6, 4.18).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Ryan McMahon and Trent Grisham each hit a two-run single in the seventh inning to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[5,620,4,619,65,3235],"class_list":["post-776478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-mariners","tag-baseball","tag-mariners","tag-mlb","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-seattlemariners"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117080850629834160","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776478","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=776478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}