DENVER (AP) \u2014 Lazaro Montes led off the ninth inning with a 426-foot home run and the Seattle Mariners beat the Colorado Rockies 5-4 on Friday night.<\/p>\n
The Mariners are six games back of the Chicago White Sox for the third AL wild card with eight games remaining.<\/p>\n
J.P. Crawford hit his 18th career leadoff homer, Randy Arozarena had three hits and Carlos Vargas (2-0) got one out for Seattle (72-82).<\/p>\n
Montes\u2019 blast into the second deck off Jordan Romano (0-4) gave Seattle its second straight win. Cole Carrigg led off the bottom of the ninth with a single, stole second but was picked off by Andres Munoz, who struck out Mickey Moniak to pick up his 28th save.<\/p>\n
Colorado\u2019s TJ Rumfield singled to extend his on-base streak to 22 games, the longest by a rookie in franchise history. The Rockies (56-98) are on the verge of being the first team since the 1965 New York Mets to lose 100 or more games in four straight seasons.<\/p>\n
Rockies rookie starter Gabriel Hughes pitched 4 2\/3 innings and remained winless in 13 starts and 14 games. He needed 34 pitches to get through the first but retired 11 straight before a one-out walk in the fifth.<\/p>\n
Crawford hit his 13th home run and Josh Naylor added a two-run single in the three-run first inning. The Rockies scored single runs in the first and fourth against starter Bryan Woo, who allowed three runs in 5 1\/3 innings, and took the lead in the fifth on Jake McCarthy\u2019s RBI triple and Connor Norby\u2019s run-scoring single.<\/p>\n
The Mariners tied it on Dominic Canzone\u2019s sacrifice fly in the seventh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER (AP) \u2014 Lazaro Montes led off the ninth inning with a 426-foot home run and the Seattle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[4704,635,4705,4706,4707,5,4708,1004,1487,3995,4703,620,4,619,65,3235],"class_list":["post-808767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-mariners","tag-aaron-munoz","tag-alan-trejo","tag-andy-gonzalez","tag-anthony-molina","tag-austin-gomber","tag-baseball","tag-brendan-rodgers","tag-brenton-doyle","tag-bud-black","tag-cal-quantrill","tag-elias-diaz","tag-mariners","tag-mlb","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-seattlemariners"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117296171787585248","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808767","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=808767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}