Seattle Mariners at Tampa Bay Rays

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Seattle Mariners

73-67, 32-40 Away

Final
4 - 9

Tampa Bay Rays

70-69, 37-33 Home

Yandy Diaz has career-best 5-hit game to help Rays compete series sweep of the Mariners

Seattle Mariners vs. Tampa Bay Rays: Game Highlights

The Rays (70-69) matched a season high by winning their sixth straight game. Tampa Bay added the Seattle sweep to its three wins over the Washington Nationals for its first consecutive series sweeps since opening 2023 with four straight.

With the win, Tampa Bay moved within 2½ games of the last American League wild-card spot.

Diaz had four singles and a double for the 11th five-hit game in franchise history. The Rays had a season-high 19 hits and six players had multi-hit games.

Adrian Houser (8-4) allowed four runs in seven innings and finished with eight strikeouts and a walk.

Seattle (73-67) has lost five of six and 14 of 20.

Mariners right-hander George Kirby (8-7) lasted just two innings, the shortest start of his career. He allowed a season-high eight runs, seven earned, on 10 hits, with one strikeout and a hit batter. Five of the first six Rays batters reached in the first inning, producing four runs.

Tampa Bay sent nine batters to the plate in the second and scored four more runs on five hits and a passed ball to chase Kirby.

Cal Raleigh drove in his 109th run with a single, and Julio Rodriguez hit his 28th home run, a three-run shot in the sixth, for Seattle.

Key moment After retiring leadoff hitter Chandler Simpson, Kirby gave up five straight hits as Tampa Bay built a 4-0 lead in the first.

Key stat Diaz went 5 for 5 with a double and four singles, the Rays’ first five-hit game since Tommy Pham in 2020.

Up next Seattle's Logan Gilbert (4-6, 3.73 ERA) will face Atlanta's Chris Sale (5-4, 2.45) in a series opener Friday.

Tampa Bay's Ryan Pepiot (10-10, 3.70) will face Cleveland's Gavin Williams (9-5, 3.26) Thursday.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Suárez grounded into double play, third to second to first, Rivas out at second.
	9th Inning	Rivas walked.
	9th Inning	Rodríguez fouled out to first.
	8th Inning	Feduccia struck out swinging.
	8th Inning	Mangum singled to left.
	8th Inning	J. Lowe struck out swinging.

Statistics

SEA		TB
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	1
9	Ground Balls	17
9	Strikeouts	7
4	Runs Batted In	9
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
4	Hits	19
0	Stolen Bases	0
2	Walks	1
0	Catcher Interference	0
4	Runs	9
1	Ground Into Double Play	2
0	Sacrifice Flies	3
29	At Bats	38
1	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
5	Runners Left On Base	19
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	2
11	Fly Balls	17
0	Caught Stealing	0
118	Pitches	148
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
0	Is Qualified In Steals	0
7	Total Bases	21
32	Plate Appearances	43
162.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
1	Extra Base Hits	2
1.0	Runs Created	9.3
.138	Batting Average	.500
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.241	Slugging Percentage	.553
.172	Secondary Average	.079
.219	On Base Percentage	.488
.460	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	1.041
0.8	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.0
1.0	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	10.4
23.0	Batter Rating	59.0
29.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.69	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.44
.103	Isolated Power	.053
0.22	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.14
.063	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.023
.034	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	-.421
8.0	Runs Produced	18.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.2	Balls In Play Average	0.6
70.3	MLB Rating	111.8
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0