{"id":170091,"date":"2025-09-26T07:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/170091\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T07:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:05:08","slug":"mariners-6-2-rockies-26-sep-2025-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/170091\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners 6-2 Rockies (26 Sep, 2025) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE &#8212; \u2014 Eugenio Su\u00e1rez matched his career high with his 49th homer, leading the AL West champion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/sea\/seattle-mariners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Mariners<\/a> over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/col\/colorado-rockies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Rockies<\/a> 6-2 on Thursday night for their 17th win in 18 games.<\/p>\n<p>              A day after clinching <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mariners-clinch-al-west-cal-raleigh-4510dccb085c8528cb2b5ece2d7b3186\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their first division title since 2001<\/a>, the Mariners were assured a first-round bye and home-field advantage in the AL Division Series when Cleveland lost to Detroit earlier Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Mariners\/status\/1971396855339811083\" rel=\"nofollow\">Su\u00e1rez connected on a hanging slider from <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4720860\/bradley-blalock\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bradley Blalock<\/a> (2-6) for a two-run homer in the second and Seattle never trailed as it won its seventh straight. Su\u00e1rez, who also hit 49 homers for Cincinnati in 2019, added a run-scoring single in the fifth that raised his career-best RBI total to 117.<\/p>\n<p>              Seattle won its 11th straight home game, tying the team record set from May 20 to June 8, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>              Colorado dropped to 4-17 in September and its 116 defeats are the most in the NL since the 1962 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nym\/new-york-mets\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Mets<\/a> lost 120. <\/p>\n<p>              Seattle&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4297897\/emerson-hancock\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emerson Hancock<\/a>, starting because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4629089\/bryan-woo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryan Woo<\/a> left his last start with pectoral tightness, allowed two hits in four scoreless innings with seven strikeouts. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41017\/caleb-ferguson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Ferguson<\/a> (5-4) worked around a walk in the seventh.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4345621\/dominic-canzone\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dominic Canzone<\/a> grounded into a run-scoring forceout in the fourth, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/36488\/randy-arozarena\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Randy Arozarena<\/a> hit a two-run, two-out single.<\/p>\n<p>              Key moment&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41292\/cal-raleigh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cal Raleigh<\/a> remained at 60 homers and when he popped up to second base in the eighth, hundreds of fans at T-Mobile Park headed for the exits. He needs two homers to tie the AL record set by the New York Yankees\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33192\/aaron-judge\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Judge<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>              Key stats&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              Colorado has allowed 1,007 runs, the first team to top 1,000 since the 1999 Rockies gave up 1,028. The Rockies minus-416 run difference will break the post-1900 record of 349 by the 1932 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>              Up next&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              Rockies: RHP Germ\u00e1n M\u00e1rquez (3-15, 6.49) starts Friday at San Francisco against RHP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5185136\/trevor-mcdonald\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trevor McDonald<\/a> (0-0, 3.38) <\/p>\n<p>              Mariners: RHP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/42406\/george-kirby\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Kirby<\/a> (10-7, 4.24) starts Friday&#8217;s series opener against the visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/lad\/los-angeles-dodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>, who send RHP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4417806\/emmet-sheehan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emmet Sheehan<\/a> (6-3, 2.86) to the mound,<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE &#8212; \u2014 Eugenio Su\u00e1rez matched his career high with his 49th homer, leading the AL West champion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-170091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}