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09/24 01:22 CDT Mariners rally past Astros 6-5 in 10 innings to keep faint
playoff hopes alive
Mariners rally past Astros 6-5 in 10 innings to keep faint playoff hopes alive
By MARK MOSCHETTI
Associated Press
SEATTLE (AP) --- Josh Naylor singled home Randy Arozarena with the winning run
in the 10th inning and the Seattle Mariners kept their slim playoff hopes alive
by rallying past the Houston Astros 6-5 on Wednesday night.
Houston (78-80) remained tied atop the AL West with Texas, which has lost three
straight games. The Astros hold the head-to-head tiebreaker if the teams finish
with the same record.
The Mariners (74-84) are four games back with four to play.
Seattle was down 5-4 after automatic runner Yordan Alvarez scored on a triple
to right field by Isaac Paredes in the top of the 10th.
With one out and the bases loaded in the bottom half, Julio Rodrguez worked a
full-count walk from Astros closer Josh Hader, forcing in J.P. Crawford with
the tying run. Naylor sent Hader's next pitch to right-center, and Arozarena
scored his third run of the night.
Alvarez went 2 for 4 without an RBI in his pursuit of the AL Triple Crown. That
raised his league-leading batting average to .316. Tampa Bay's Chandler
Simpson, second at .309, did not play Wednesday against the New York Yankees.
Alvarez is part of a three-way tie for the home run lead at 41 with the Rays'
Junior Caminero and Baltimore's Pete Alonso. The Houston slugger is second in
RBIs with 102, eight behind Alonso.
Before his tying walk, Rodrguez had three hits for the Mariners.
Jose Altuve, Yainer Diaz and Nick Allen each had two hits for Houston. One of
Diaz's hits was his 14th homer, a two-run shot to cap a four-run third.
Cooper Criswell (4-2) pitched the 10th inning to earn the win for Seattle.
Hader (4-2), who also pitched the ninth, took the loss.
Seattle scored three times in the third to pull to 4-3. The first two runs came
on Dominic Canzone's double as he extended his hitting streak to a career-best
12 games. Canzone's single in the fifth scored Arozarena to tie it at 4.
Up next
The Mariners will send right-hander Bryan Woo (12-9, 3.92 ERA) to the mound
Thursday in the opener of a season-ending four-game series against the Angels.
Right-hander Peter Lambert (8-10, 3.70) will pitch for the Astros in the first
game of a four-game set at the Athletics.
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