The Mariners got the kind of night that can reset a season, even if only for a day.
In a 7-6 win over the Dodgers on Tuesday at Dodger Stadium, Seattle matched its season high with five home runs, survived a wild finish, and walked away with its first victory over Los Angeles since April 19, 2021. The win also snapped a 12-game losing streak against the two-time defending champs, and it came with Andrés Muñoz slamming the door in the ninth while Shohei Ohtani and Max Muncy were both left on base.
For a team that has spent much of the summer looking nothing like the 2025 version, this was the opposite: loud, tense, and just good enough at the end.
Seattle’s offense came alive in a big way, with Dominic Canzone driving the night. The left-handed hitter launched a game-tying solo shot off Justin Wrobleski in the sixth, a 433-foot drive that disappeared into the batter’s eye, then came back in the seventh and put the Mariners ahead for good with a two-run homer off Alex Vesia. That one traveled 414 feet to the right of straightaway center.
The other three homers mattered just as much to the bigger picture, because they came from players Seattle badly needs to wake up.
The finish, though, was pure chaos. Dalton Rushing opened the ninth with an infield single, then Ohtani ripped an RBI double to the wall that was aided by an error. Muncy followed with a tense, nine-pitch walk to put the tying run on third and the winning run on second, but Muñoz escaped by getting a game-winning groundout to Mookie Betts.
It was the sort of ending that could have turned a huge night into a crushing one. Instead, the Mariners held on for what may end up being their best win of the season.
And while the setting carried the ghost of a World Series rematch - Seattle had been eight outs from reaching the Fall Classic last October, which would have started right there at Chavez Ravine - this one stood on its own as a reminder of what the Mariners can look like when the bats finally break through.
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