J.P. Crawford homered on the game’s first pitch, Rowdy Tellez and Cal Raleigh added long balls and the visiting Seattle Mariners topped the San Diego Padres 5-1 on Friday.
Seattle starter Logan Evans (2-1) tossed six scoreless innings, the longest of his four major league outings. The Mariners were two outs from their second shutout of the year before Jake Cronenworth belted an RBI double against Collin Snider.
Stephen Kolek (2-1), a former Mariners farmhand selected in the Rule 5 draft by San Diego in December 2023, was the loser. He was coming off a complete-game shutout Saturday night at Colorado, the first by a visiting pitcher to accomplish that feat in Denver since 2013.
The Padres lost for just the sixth time in 22 home games despite a three-hit performance from Luis Arraez. San Diego’s Manny Machado went 0-for-4, ending a 14-game hitting streak that was the second longest of his career.
Coming off a 1-5 homestand, Seattle got off to the fastest start imaginable. Crawford jumped all over Kolek’s first-pitch fastball and lined it an estimated 357 feet into the right field seats for his fourth homer of the year.
Tellez made it 3-0 in the fourth. Cal Raleigh coaxed a one-out walk, and with two outs, Tellez picked on a sweeper that drifted over the middle of the plate and ripped it into the seats in right, his seventh homer of the season.
Raleigh clouted his 14th homer in the sixth, following Julio Rodriguez’s leadoff single by lofting a two-run shot to left-center. Kolek left after allowing an infield hit to Randy Arozarena, having surrendered five runs on eight hits and a walk in five-plus innings with four strikeouts.
Meanwhile, Evans was able to get key outs despite working around traffic in every inning. He escaped a two-on, no-out spot in the third by getting Machado to hit into a double play, then whiffing Jackson Merrill.
In the fourth, Evans induced a lineout from Elias Diaz to strand Cronenworth after a two-out triple. He got a groundout off Machado’s bat in the fifth after Arraez doubled with two outs.
–Field Level Media
