Mariners, Mets trade wins Friday and Saturday

NEW YORK (AP) — The Mariners faced the Mets in New York Friday and Saturday with a third game slated for Sunday in Williamsport, Pa. The Mariners took the victory Friday evening while the Mets snagged the win Saturday. 

Friday play  

Cal Raleigh hit his major league-leading 46th homer, sparked a five-run seventh inning with his first double in over a month and the Seattle Mariners set a team record with nine doubles to beat the skidding New York Mets 11-9 on Friday night. 

Raleigh hit a two-run shot to the second deck in left field and became the first player to reach 100 RBIs this season to give the Mariners a 4-3 lead in the third. He helped the Mariners rally from a 6-5 deficit in the seventh with his first double since June 27 and then doubled again in the eighth. 

The comeback helped Seattle overcome two homers by Francisco Lindor. Lindor hit a leadoff homer and then a two-run shot in the fourth for a 5-4 lead. Juan Soto also homered and Francisco Alvarez hit a three-run shot in the eighth, but the Mets lost for the 14th time in 16 games. 

After Raleigh scored the tying run on a double by Eugenio Suárez off Ryan Helsley (3-4), Dominic Canzone followed with a go-ahead RBI double off Brooks Raley. 

Donavan Solano hit an RBI double off the top of the left field wall and rookie Cole Young capped the big inning with a two-run double. 

Mitch Garver homered and Julio Rodriguez hit a pair of RBI doubles as the Mariners won for the 10th time in 13 games. Young added an RBI single to get Seattle within one run in the sixth. 

Seattle starter Luis Castillo tied a season worst by allowing six runs and nine hits in four innings. 

New York starter Sean Manaea allowed four runs and six hits in five innings. 

Saturday play 

Nolan McLean provided the struggling Mets a much-needed lift Saturday, tossing 5 1/3 scoreless innings in his major league debut as New York beat the Seattle Mariners 3-1. 

McLean (1-0) allowed two hits with four walks and struck out eight to help lift the Mets to just their third win in their last 17 games. 

The 24-year-old right-hander, a 2023 draft pick out of Oklahoma State, showed off a five-pitch arsenal that included a high-70s curveball, a high-80s sweeper, a 90-mph cutter and sinkers and fastballs measured in the high 90s. 

The crowd gave him three standing ovations — first when he walked off the mound in the sixth and again when he was pictured on the scoreboard prior to the seventh and ninth innings. 

Francisco Lindor had an RBI double in the third before the Mets added insurance in the seventh, when Juan Soto had a sacrifice fly and Pete Alonso hit a run-scoring double. 

Alonso now has 100 RBIs, the fourth time in his career he’s reached the century mark. 

Edwin Díaz gave up Eugenio Suárez’s ninth-inning homer but got the final six outs for his 24th save. 

Bryan Woo (10-7) gave up one run over six innings — the 24th time in as many starts this season he’s lasted at least six frames. 

McLean got out of a bases-loaded jam in the third when he made a backhanded grab of Julio Rodríguez’s comebacker and whirled to second to start the inning-ending 1-4-3 double play. 

Sunday 

The teams headed to Williamsport, Pa., for the MLB Little League Classic on Sunday night, when RHP Clay Holmes (9-6, 3.71 ERA) starts for the Mets against Mariners RHP George Kirby (8-5, 3.71).

Sunday’s game was not completed in time for press, but is available at www.columbiabasinherald.com and will be published in Tuesday’s edition.