J.P. Crawford singled home the winning run in the bottom of the 11th inning as the Seattle Mariners defeated the visiting New York Yankees 2-1 Tuesday night to snap a season-long, four-game losing streak.
With Leody Taveras the runner at second base to start the inning, rookie Ben Williamson grounded a single to center field off Tim Hill (3-1) to move Taveras to third. Crawford then hit a soft liner that landed just inside the foul line in left field to win it.
Mariners reliever Casey Legumina (3-1) got the victory.
The Yankees tied the score at 1-1 in the ninth against Mariners closer Andres Munoz.
Munoz hit leadoff hitter Paul Goldschmidt on the right hand with a 2-2 pitch and Goldschmidt proceeded to steal second before being lifted for pinch-runner Pablo Reyes. Austin Wells hit a slow roller to third and was thrown out with Reyes advancing. Anthony Volpe then hit a check-swing grounder to first, with Dylan Moore throwing errantly to the plate to allow the tying run to score as Volpe advanced to second. Munoz struck out Jasson Dominguez on a called third strike — Yankees manager Aaron Boone was ejected for arguing with home-plate umpire Mark Wegner — and got Oswald Peraza to ground to third to end the inning.
The game featured a pitching duel between starters Max Fried of New York and Seattle’s Bryan Woo.
Woo pitched 6 1/3 scoreless innings and allowed four hits. The right-hander didn’t walk a batter and struck out six.
Fried went five innings and gave up one run on four hits. The lefty walked two and struck out five.
The Mariners broke a scoreless tie in the bottom of the fourth inning. Julio Rodriguez led off by grounding a single to left field and Cal Raleigh followed with a double off the center-field wall, with Rodriguez racing home standing just ahead of the throw.
Seattle didn’t have another hit until Williamson’s single in the 11th.
The Yankees’ Aaron Judge went 1-for-4 and struck out twice with his MLB-leading batting average dropping to .410. He was intentionally walked in the 10th inning.
