Padres, Mariners trade wins Tuesday and Wednesday

SEATTLE (AP) — The Mariners and Padres traded wins Tuesday and Wednesday, with a close win for San Diego on Tuesday and a two-run win for Seattle on Wednesday. 

Tuesday play  

Ramon Laureano hit a grand slam in the first inning and the San Diego Padres beat the Seattle Mariners 7-6 on Tuesday night. 

Laureano, acquired from the Baltimore Orioles ahead of last month’s trade deadline, turned on an elevated fastball from Mariners starter Luis Castillo in the first inning to give San Diego an early 5-0 lead. 

The Padres coasted for the next few innings, but briefly ceded their lead in the fifth when the Mariners struck for six runs on a pair of three-run homers by Randy Arozarena and Eugenio Suárez. 

San Diego responded in the top of the sixth. Jake Cronenworth poked a run-scoring single to the opposite field, and Freddy Fermin put the Padres up for good with a sacrifice bunt off Mariners reliever Caleb Ferguson (3-4). 

Adrián Morejón (10-4) and three other Padres relievers combined to keep the Mariners in check the rest of the way, with Robert Suarez finishing off the game with his league-leading 35th save of the season. 

Wednesday matchup  

Eugenio Suárez hit his second three-run homer in two games and the Seattle Mariners held off the San Diego Padres 4-3 on Wednesday. 

Luke Raley had an RBI double and Bryan Woo earned his 12th win to help the Mariners take two of three in the series. They hold the final American League wild-card spot and sit just behind first-place Houston in the AL West. 

Fernando Tatis Jr. laced an RBI double with two outs in the ninth inning for the Padres. He was stranded at third when Andrés Muñoz retired Ramón Laureano on a game-ending groundout. 

San Diego, in position for a National League wild card, is right on the heels of the rival Dodgers atop the NL West. 

The Padres and Mariners share a spring training site in Peoria, Ariz. 

Suárez, who hit a three-run shot Tuesday, replicated the feat in the fourth when he turned on a cutter from starter Yu Darvish (3-4). It was Suárez’s 42nd home run of the season, third-most in the majors. 

The Mariners opened the scoring in the second when Raley flared a run-scoring double with two outs. 

Gavin Sheets had an RBI single off Woo (12-7) in the sixth, and another run came around when Jake Cronenworth was hit by a pitch from reliever Gabe Speier. 

Muñoz got three outs for his 31st save.