Raleigh’s walk-off knock ends tense battle with Yankees

SEATTLE — Cal Raleigh is making a behavior of epic Mariners walk-offs.

Seattle’s burly backstop ripped a 107.1 mph RBI single within the backside of the tenth inning on Wednesday to interrupt a scoreless tie in a tense recreation with the Yankees and assist Seattle keep away from a sweep with a 1-0 win.

The massive knock, which scored automated runner José Caballero, occurred practically eight months to the day after his walk-off homer ended the Mariners’ 21-year postseason drought final fall.

Raleigh’s efforts backed essentially the most good outing but from second-year starter George Kirby, who tossed eight shutout innings and walked a tightrope of zero run assist. Kirby surrendered simply three hits and no walks whereas placing out seven and permitting only one runner to succeed in scoring place. Kirby threw 95 pitches and noticed an enormous uptick of 1.7 mph every on each his two- and four-seam fastballs, which led to 9 of the ten whiffs he generated.