Jun 10, 2025; Phoenix, Arizona, USA; Seattle Mariners first base Rowdy Tellez (23) hirs a house run in opposition to the Arizona Diamondbacks throughout the sixth inning at Chase Area. Obligatory Credit score: Joe Camporeale-Imagn Pictures The Arizona Diamondbacks will purpose for a second sweep of their previous three sequence after they meet the slumping Seattle Mariners within the finale of a three-game set on Wednesday afternoon in Phoenix.
The Mariners stay seeking a clutch hit.
Seattle will ship right-hander Bryan Woo, the crew’s most constant starter this season, to the mound in an try to show issues round.
Woo (5-3, 3.07 ERA) will oppose Diamondbacks left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez (1-3, 6.70).
The Mariners have misplaced seven of their previous eight video games and 14 of 20, and so they dropped to .500 for the primary time since April 18 with a 10-3 loss to Arizona within the second recreation of the sequence Tuesday.
“We’re looking for methods to make it work, and it looks as if if one group steps up in a given night time, the opposite group sadly just isn’t capable of maintain up their finish of the discount,” Seattle normal supervisor Justin Hollander advised SiriusXM.
“Proper now it simply looks like there are usually not sufficient contributions from all sides of the ball. And that occurs.”
The Diamondbacks received the primary two video games of the sequence with homers. Josh Naylor hit a walk-off grand slam on Monday, and Arizona hit three homers on Tuesday to provide them 5 for the sequence.
“Actually good win,” Diamondbacks supervisor Torey Lovullo stated. “It wasn’t the place your coronary heart is pounding for the final three or 4 innings. We stay up for these wins. We’re conditioned for any sort of win, however we have not had this sort of win for a very long time.”
Arizona had only a 13-12 edge in hits on Tuesday, however the Mariners went 1-for-12 with runners in scoring place. Seattle’s solely hit in that state of affairs got here on Julio Rodriguez’s RBI single within the eighth, when the sport already was determined.
Woo has emerged because the Mariners’ No. 1 starter on a workers that has hit by accidents to George Kirby, Logan Gilbert and Bryce Miller. Woo has made 9 high quality begins in his 12 outings and has not pitched fewer than six innings in any look this 12 months.
“What that does for a crew (is huge),” Hollander stated. “When you possibly can simply rely on someone to go on the market each 5 days and pitch six innings, six actually good innings, what that does for the bullpen.
“And what it does for the offense, realizing that if we simply give Bryan just a little assist that a lot of the bullpen can take the night time off, is so precious.”
Woo had a streak of 4 high quality begins finish in his newest outing, a 4-3 loss to the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday. He gave up 4 runs on 4 hits in six innings.
The 25-year-old California native has confronted the Diamondbacks as soon as, giving up three runs in 5 innings of a no-decision in 2023. Alek Thomas went 2-for-2 off Woo.
Rodriguez will make his second begin since coming back from three-week stint on the injured record attributable to shoulder irritation. He gave up two runs and 6 hits in 5 innings on Friday at Cincinnati and was in line for the victory till the Reds rallied and pulled out a 4-3 win in 10 innings.
The 32-year-old veteran has pitched into the seventh inning solely twice in 10 begins this season, however with Corbin Burnes out for the season after Tommy John surgical procedure, the D-backs are searching for extra size from their different starters.
Rodriguez, who has spent most of his profession within the American League, is 5-4 with a 4.03 ERA in 12 begins in opposition to the Mariners, the newest in 2023. J.P. Crawford is 5-for-15 with a homer in opposition to him.
–Area Stage Media
