Athletics shut down by Mariners’ Bryan Woo in loss

SEATTLE — Bryan Woo struck retired 9 implicit 8 innings successful his longest outing of the season, and Cal Raleigh and J.P. Crawford deed back-to-back RBI singles successful the 4th inning to pb the Seattle Mariners to a 2-0 triumph implicit the Athletics connected Sunday.

Woo (11-9) gave up 1 deed and walked 2 successful his lone eight-inning commencement of 2026. He retired the archetypal 9 batters of the crippled earlier Henry Bolte singled to pb disconnected the 4th inning. Woo didn’t springiness up a deed the remainder of the way. He threw 102 pitches, 73 for strikes.

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Woo got each the tally enactment he’d request successful the fourth, erstwhile the Mariners strung unneurotic 5 consecutive singles disconnected A’s starter Gage Jump (6-9). Dominic Canzone, Julio Rodríguez, Raleigh, Crawford and Josh Naylor recorded basal hits, with Canzone and Rodríguez coming astir to score.

Mariners person Andrés Muñoz pitched a cleanable ninth for his 25th prevention of the season.

Jump, who took the loss, finished disconnected the inning by striking retired 3 batters successful a row, and A’s reliever Seth Johnson struck retired the adjacent 4 Mariners into the sixth inning for a full of 7 consecutive Seattle batters retired by strikeout. Jump allowed 2 runs connected six hits successful 4 innings with 7 strikeouts and nary walks.

Mariners 2nd baseman Michael Arroyo, a 21-year-old imaginable who was called up from Triple-A Tacoma earlier the game, went 0 for 3 successful his MLB debut earlier being pulled for a antiaircraft replacement.

Arroyo impressed his manager with his calmness successful his archetypal large league game.

“First time successful the large leagues, there’s a batch going on, and I thought helium took immoderate bully swings and helium made bully play defensively,” Seattle manager Dan Wilson said. “It was thing to physique on, for sure.”

Arroyo, a autochthonal of Colombia, was batting .283 with 18 location runs, 81 RBIs and 17 stolen bases implicit a combined 114 games betwixt Double-A Arkansas and Triple-A Tacoma.

“He looked precise comfy retired there, the mode I thought helium would,” Wilson said. “Nothing seemed to velocity up connected him. No hits successful presumption of results for him, but I thought helium looked comfy successful the box, and it was a bully time for his archetypal 1 successful the large leagues.”