{"id":143613,"date":"2025-09-09T08:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/143613\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T08:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:16:06","slug":"josh-naylors-late-go-ahead-double-helps-mariners-beat-cardinals-4-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/143613\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Naylor\u2019s late go-ahead double helps Mariners beat Cardinals 4-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Josh Naylor hit a go-ahead, two-run double in the sixth inning to help the Seattle Mariners beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-2 on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Naylor, who homered in his last two games, turned on a hanging curveball from Cardinals reliever Gordon Graceffo (3-1) for a two-run shot after Julio Rodr\u00edguez got Seattle on the board with an RBI single. After his double, Naylor made a heads-up play and stole third base, allowing him to score with ease on a sacrifice fly from Jorge Polanco.<\/p>\n<p>T<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Mariners\/status\/1965257110897525145\" rel=\"nofollow\">he Mariners scored four runs in the sixth inning to erase St. Louis\u2019 advantage<\/a>. The Cardinals jumped out in front 2-0 on a two-run home run by Alec Burleson in the fourth inning, his 17th of the season.<\/p>\n<p>That was all the offense St. Louis could muster against Mariners starter Bryan Woo (13-7) before three relievers combined to close out the win. Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz secured his 33rd save.<\/p>\n<p>Woo gave up two runs over six innings of work, striking out nine Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>Mariners second baseman Leo Rivas worked a nine-pitch walk off Mikolas to lead off the sixth inning, fouling off four pitches in the at-bat. Randy Arozarena followed with a single, and then Cal Raleigh walked on four pitches before Rodr\u00edguez and Naylor\u2019s run-scoring hits.<\/p>\n<p>With the victory, the Mariners raised their record to 17-6 since the All-Star break. That&#8217;s the best record in the MLB in the second half of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinals left-hander Matthew Liberatore (7-11, 4.15 ERA) starts Tuesday night against Mariners right-hander George Kirby (8-7, 4.47) in the second game of the three-game set.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Josh Naylor hit a go-ahead, two-run double in the sixth inning to help the Seattle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-143613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}