With two outs in the bottom of the ninth and their season teetering on the brink, J.P. Crawford's walk-off bases loaded single off Jonathan Hernández stole a 3-2 victory for the Mariners over the Texas Rangers to keep playoff hopes afloat.
With two outs in the bottom of the ninth and their season teetering on the brink, Crawford drove a Jonathan Hernández pitch just over the head of left fielder Evan Carter to steal a 3-2 victory over the Texas Rangers on Thursday night that keep Seattle's playoff hopes rolling into the final weekend of the season.
Cal Raleigh and Dylan Moore led off the ninth inning with consecutive singles to left field off Chapman to give Seattle one last chance. Chapman then had a wild pitch get by catcher Jonah Heim for the runners to advance before Chapman walked Ty France to load the bases with no outs. Texas then turned to Hernández to try to bail the Rangers out of the jam.
"We were in need of a hit with runners in scoring position and we got one," manager Scott Servais said. "Tonight's about fight. You play all season long, spring training and all the work that goes into it and it kind of comes down to you need to win a game, you need to get a big hit and our guys found a way.""It's pretty incredible what he's done all year, but that kind of just sums up his season I feel like," starter Logan Gilbert said.
Julio Rodríguez snapped a streak of five straight plate appearances with a strikeout by taking a curveball away from Jordan Montgomery out to right field for his 32nd home run of the season to cut the Texas lead to 2-1 in the bottom of the fourth inning. Raleigh singled and Moore walked with two outs to put runners on, but France popped out to second base as the Mariners were unable to get closer.
" Carson Vitale said 'at some point we're going to have to get a hit with a runner in scoring position.' And he was right," Servais said. "He said 'we only need one, if we get one we'll probably win the game' and he was right." "There's no better feeling," Crawford said of the reaction to his efforts. "Some of these moments you will never forget. It's a very vivid memory of mine already in my head. Just hearing that. There's no better feeling in the world."
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