Mariners rally past Athletics again for ninth straight series win

Tim Booth, The Seattle Times on May 7, 2025

Published in Baseball

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WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — New guys. Role players. Guys that have been around a while.

It doesn’t matter about their history or longevity with the Seattle Mariners right now. Seemingly someone is coming through no matter what.

This time it was the trio of Rowdy Tellez, Leody Taveras and Dylan Moore who provided the three biggest swings as the Mariners rallied for a 6-5 win over the Athletics on Wednesday afternoon at Sutter Health Park.

The M’s overcame a rough start from Bryan Woo and pieced together three big moments offensively to extend their streak of consecutive series victories to nine straight after taking the final two games against the A’s.

It’s the longest streak of series wins by the Mariners since winning 15 straight in 2001. You remember that season, right?

Trailing 5-1, Tellez provided the M’s the jolt they needed with a three-run homer in the sixth inning off A’s reliever Mitch Spence. The homer came on a 3-2 pitch after Cal Raleigh and Randy Arozarena walked.

Taking the lead in the eighth was even more unexpected. Taveras, barely 12 hours after arriving at the team hotel in Sacramento following the M’s claiming him on waivers, punched a 1-2 pitch from Noah Murdock through the left side of the A’s infield and scored pinch-runner Miles Mastrobuoni. Arozarena walked for the second time in the game — his third time on base — and Mastrobuoni stole second to get into scoring position for the brand-new Mariner to deliver a first big moment in his new uniform.

Taveras then jogged home when Moore doubled to right-center to give the Mariners the lead.

On Tuesday night, the Mariners waited until the ninth to put together their winning rally. A day later, it was an inning earlier.

Andrés Muñoz allowed a leadoff single to Luis Urias in the ninth and went 3-2 on Seth Brown before getting a strikeout. Pinch-hitter Shea Langeliers’s fly-ball to left was caught but Muñoz still had to face Jacob Wilson, already with four hits on the day.

But Wilson was left frozen by a Muñoz slider to end it for his 13th save. In 18 appearances Muñoz has yet to allow an earned run.

The late rally meant Woo remained unbeaten in his career against the A’s despite a day where he was knocked around for a season-high five runs and eight hits.

Woo loved pitching against the A’s in Oakland when he was just a few miles from his hometown of Alameda. He did not enjoy his first outing against the A’s in their temporary home 90 miles inland.

In three career starts in Oakland against the A’s, Woo was 3-0 with a 1.13 ERA. But West Sacramento was a different story.

Woo’s problems started immediately with Wilson beginning his big day with an infield single. By the time the first inning was over, Tyler Soderstrom had added an RBI single and JJ Bleday ripped a two-run double. The three first-inning runs matched the total number of earned runs Woo had allowed in 37 1/3 career innings against the A’s entering the day.

In the fourth, Lawrence Butler homered on the first pitch and Wilson’s RBI double gave the A’s a 5-0 lead at that point.

Woo still managed to get through six innings continuing his streak of reaching that mark in every start this season. He struck out the side in the sixth and finished with six K’s on 100 pitches.

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