NEW YORK — Another dreadful outing by Domingo Germán made issues simple for touted rookie Bryan Woo on a breakthrough evening for the Seattle Mariners.
Teoscar Hernández hit certainly one of Seattle’s 4 early homers and the Mariners teed off in opposition to a abruptly inept Germán in blowing out the sloppy New York Yankees 10-2 on Thursday to forestall a three-game sweep.
Woo (1-1) breezed into the sixth inning with a no-hit bid to earn his first main league victory. Kolten Wong hit his first house run for the Mariners earlier than Ty France and Cal Raleigh additionally went deep in opposition to Germán (4-5).
“We just kind of came in with a different attitude today,” Wong mentioned. “Guys were aggressive, guys were excited to go out there and compete. That was the kind of game that we really needed to kind of jumpstart us back to the winning ways.”
Julio Rodríguez bought Seattle began with a one-out single in a four-run first. Hernández had an RBI single, Eugenio Suárez delivered a two-run double and Mike Ford capped the fast outburst with a sacrifice fly.
Batting ninth and hitting .154, Wong led off the second together with his first homer since smashing three in a single recreation for Milwaukee final Sept. 22 at Cincinnati.
PHOTOS: Mariners hammer Germán as Woo will get his 1st win in a 10-2 rout of the Yankees
“It felt great. Obviously, everybody knows I’m putting in the work here. All the guys know, and I don’t want to make excuses man, but yeah, it’s been tough,” Wong mentioned. “It’s nice to look up now and see one instead of zero.”
After rounding the bases, he acquired the silent remedy from teammates when he returned to the dugout.
“I haven’t had that since I hit my first homer in the big leagues,” Wong mentioned, laughing. “That was funny, man. It was cool to come in and see that. … It was a good weight off my shoulders and a good laugh at the same time.”
France added a solo shot later within the inning off Germán – after which issues actually bought ugly for the Yankees.
New York dedicated three errors in an embarrassing third inning because the Mariners, held to 3 runs within the first two video games of the sequence, scored two extra with out getting a success.
“Awful game for us,” Yankees supervisor Aaron Boone mentioned. “It’s not fun to go through something like that, especially at home.”
Hernández and Raleigh hit back-to-back solo homers within the fourth to mercifully chase Germán, who gave up a career-high 10 runs – eight earned – and eight hits. He threw 93 pitches in 3 1/3 innings as his ERA soared to five.10.
It was the second consecutive flop for the right-hander, who had a really respectable 3.49 ERA earlier than giving up seven runs and 7 hits in two innings final Friday at Boston.
This dud got here in opposition to a Seattle workforce that was ranked twenty ninth within the majors in batting common and twenty fourth in OPS. Germán joined Bob Turley (1955) and Hall of Famer Whitey Ford (1966) as the one Yankees pitchers to surrender a minimum of 10 runs and 4 homers in a recreation.
“Sometimes it happens. It’s hard to figure out where the issue is, if it’s mechanical, if it’s the release point. Are they adjusting, are they seeing the pitch well?” Germán mentioned by way of a translator. “You’ve got to keep working.”
Reserve utilityman Isiah Kiner-Falefa pitched an ideal ninth for New York, putting out Suárez with a 79 mph fastball, after which hit a two-run homer within the backside half.
Making his fourth main league begin, Woo was handed a 4-0 lead earlier than throwing a pitch. With one out within the sixth, Gleyber Torres fisted a clear single to proper discipline for New York’s first hit – drawing a sarcastic Bronx cheer from the group of 42,440.
“I was kind of disappointed just to see it fall,” Woo mentioned.
Rizzo laced the following pitch off the highest of the right-field fence for a single that ended the right-hander’s evening.
“Credit to Woo, too. That heater’s real,” Boone mentioned. “He was tough.”
TWO-WAY PLAYER
It was the third profession pitching look (all this season) for Kiner-Falefa, who grew to become the primary Yankees participant to homer as a pitcher since Lindy McDaniel in September 1972 at Detroit. The subsequent yr, the designated hitter was launched within the American League.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Mariners: SS J.P. Crawford (bruised proper shoulder) sat out for the second consecutive recreation however was feeling higher, supervisor Scott Servais mentioned. Crawford went by way of some pregame drills and the workforce hopes to have him obtainable this weekend in Baltimore.
Yankees: DH/OF Willie Calhoun was positioned on the 10-day injured checklist with a left quadriceps pressure and New York recalled utilityman Oswaldo Cabrera from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. … RHP Ian Hamilton (proper groin pressure) is scheduled to get a minimum of 4 outs Saturday in one other minor league rehab outing after which may rejoin the Yankees on their highway journey subsequent week.
UP NEXT
Mariners: RHP Logan Gilbert (4-4, 4.31 ERA) begins Friday evening in Baltimore in opposition to RHP Kyle Gibson (8-4, 3.94). Gilbert, who has by no means confronted the Orioles, is 16-4 with a 3.90 ERA in 37 profession begins on the highway.
Yankees: RHP Clarke Schmidt (2-6, 4.65 ERA) faces the highest-scoring workforce within the majors when New York hosts Texas. RHP Dane Dunning (6-1, 2.78) goes for the AL West leaders.
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