SEATTLE — Lifeless for their first game-and-a-half out of the break, the Mariners finally found liftoff in the late innings of a 4-3, 10-inning thriller over the Giants on Saturday afternoon.
Cole Young clobbered a three-run, game-tying homer in the seventh inning off Logan Webb in the right-hander’s first appearance since being selected to Tuesday’s All-Star Game. Then in the 10th, Julio Rodríguez roped a sacrifice fly to left field that scored automatic runner Victor Robles, who advanced to third base on a sacrifice bunt from Colt Emerson.
It was Rodriguez’s first game since July 2, having been sidelined with a concussion.
Both moments offered a big breakthrough for an offense that badly needed something — anything — to jumpstart their second half, especially on the heels of a 1-5 road trip through Florida going into the break.
Up to the point of Young’s homer, Seattle had been held to just one hit after just two singles in a 7-0 loss the night prior, a stretch of 14 innings.
But they finally — and rapidly — clawed away at Webb in that turnaround seventh, as Randy Arozarena was hit by a pitch, then Josh Naylor walked on four pitches to set up Young’s big blast, his 12th of the season.
The long ball erased a three-run deficit against Bryan Woo, who surrendered two solo homers in the sixth — a sky-high shot from Rafael Devers that barely cleared both the left-field wall and foul pole, then an opposite-field pop from Willy Adames.
