Mariners use late heroics to rally for wild 10-inning win over Reds

Adam Jude, The Seattle Times on Apr 17, 2025

Published in Baseball

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CINCINNATI — Cal Raleigh and Randy Arozarena hit back-to-back home runs in the top of the ninth inning to tie the score, and the Mariners scored four runs in the 10th inning en route to a seesaw 11-7 victory over the Cincinnati Reds to win their first road series of the season Thursday afternoon.

Raleigh, incredibly, has hit six home runs in six games, giving him eight home runs (one shy of the MLB lead) in the Mariners’ first 19 games. Five of those homers have come with his new torpedo bat.

Two pitches later, Arozarena tied the score at 7-7 when he turned on an inside cutter from Reds reliever Emilio Pagãn — the one-time Mariner — and sent it on a line at 108.2 mph out to left field for his fourth homer of the season.

J.P. Crawford, on an 0-2 pitch, drove in automatic runner Dylan Moore from third base to give the Mariners the lead in the top of the 10th.

Arozarena doubled on a two-out, 3-2 pitch with the bases loaded to drive in two more runs in the 10th, and an Elly De La Cruz error added one more run for the Mariners.

The Mariners led 5-3 going into bottom of the eighth inning, but ex-Mariner Jake Fraley belted a go-ahead grand slam against Mariners reliever Eduard Bazardo to give the Reds a 7-5 lead going into the ninth.

Bazardo, pitching with the lead in the eighth inning for the first time, struggled to command his fastball. He walked two batters and allowed three hits. He got ahead of Fraley 0-1 with a slider but then left a fastball over the heart of the plate — and Fraley hit a 107.1-mph blast out to right field.

With the Mariners clinging to a 4-3 lead in the seventh inning, manager Dan Wilson had turned to Trent Thornton with the bases loaded and two outs. Thornton struck out De La Cruz looking at a fastball down the middle for the final out, stranding all three runners.

Thornton had also struck out De La Cruz late in the Mariners’ victory Wednesday night.

Instead of going back to Thornton in the eighth inning Thursday, however, Wilson opted to turn to Bazardo.

After a shaky first inning, Emerson Hancock retired 10 of the last 11 batters he faced, getting through the Reds lineup twice through five innings in his second start of the season.

He allowed a two-run home run to Austin Hays in the first inning, but nothing after that in what might have been the most important start of his young career.

The 25-year-old Hancock scattered five hits with no walks and four strikeouts.

Luke Raley’s two-run homer in the fourth inning for the Mariners tied the score at 2-2.