{"id":679212,"date":"2026-05-19T07:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/679212\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T07:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T07:50:16","slug":"colt-emerson-homers-for-first-career-hit-as-seattle-mariners-beat-chicago-white-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/679212\/","title":{"rendered":"Colt Emerson homers for first career hit as Seattle Mariners beat Chicago White Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Touted prospect Colt Emerson<\/a> launched a three-run homer for his first major league hit, and the Seattle Mariners<\/a> stopped a three-game slide Monday night with a 6-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bryan Woo<\/a> (4-2) pitched six shutout innings for the Mariners, allowing three hits and two walks. The right-hander struck out eight and retired his final 11 batters. He threw 60 of his 90 pitches for strikes.<\/p>\n

Julio Rodr\u00edguez hit his eighth homer \u2014 a solo shot off Noah Schultz<\/a> (2-3) in the first to put Seattle ahead for good.<\/p>\n

Emerson, the team\u2019s top pick in the 2023 amateur draft, connected on a 2-2 pitch from Trevor Richards<\/a> with two outs in the eighth to extend the lead to 6-1. <\/p>\n

The 20-year-old third baseman was selected 22nd overall and recently signed a $95 million, eight-year contract \u2014 the largest for a minor league player with no big league experience. He was called up over the weekend and had family in the stands Monday for his second game after they were unable to attend his debut Sunday.<\/p>\n

Jhonny Pereda<\/a> was hit by a pitch before scoring on a two-out double by Randy Arozarena<\/a> to give the Mariners a 2-0 lead in the third. <\/p>\n

Pereda was thrown out at home but it was ruled shortstop Colson Montgomery<\/a> impeded his progress rounding second and the run was awarded. White Sox manager Wil Venable was ejected for arguing the call.<\/p>\n

Arozarena doubled again leading off the sixth, moved to third on a passed ball and scored on a single by Josh Naylor<\/a> to make it 3-0. Naylor finished 3 for 4 and stole two bases.<\/p>\n

Sam Antonacci<\/a> singled off Woo to begin the game and Munetaka Murakami<\/a> followed with a walk, but Antonacci was thrown out at third by Woo when he tried to take an extra base on the free pass.<\/p>\n

Antonacci and Murakami had one-out singles to put runners at the corners in the third, but Woo struck out Miguel Vargas<\/a> and Montgomery to keep it 1-0.<\/p>\n

Eduard Bazardo<\/a> gave up a leadoff homer to Tristan Peters<\/a> in the seventh for Chicago\u2019s lone run. Jos\u00e9 A. Ferrer got the final out in the seventh and pitched a scoreless eighth before Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz worked a perfect ninth.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

White Sox LHP Anthony Kay<\/a> (3-1, 4.61 ERA) starts Tuesday opposite Mariners RHP Bryce Miller<\/a> (0-0, 3.38).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Touted prospect Colt Emerson launched a three-run homer for his first major league hit, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-679212","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\/679212","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=679212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}