Yankees fall in extras as offense comes up empty in Seattle

Seattle—The Yankees fell to the Mariners 2-1 in walkoff fashion. Max Fried got the start for the Yankees, and Bryan Woo took the ball for the Mariners. 

Julio Rodriguez robbed Aaron Judge of extra bases with a beautiful diving play in the top of the first inning. Cody Bellinger picked up a two-out double off the base of the wall in left field to extend his hit streak to nine straight games. But Beli was stranded following a pop-up from Paul Goldschmidt. 

Fried worked a 1-2-3 bottom of the first inning and needed just five pitches to get it done. 

Fried got Donovan Solano to bounce into a 5-4-3 double play to help work out of a first and second one-out jam in the bottom of the second inning. 

Cal Raleigh got the scoring started for the Mariners in the bottom of the fourth inning with an RBI double to make it a 1-0 game. 

Fried picked up three more strikeouts in the bottom of the fifth inning to put his total up to five punchouts on the night. 

Trent Grisham dunked in a bloop single to shallow right field with two outs in the top of the fifth inning to give the Yankees their first base runner since the first inning. Aaron Judge followed that up with a line drive single to the right field, but Beli flew out to strand the tying run at second base. 

Fernando Cruz replaced Fried on the mound in the bottom of the sixth inning and struck out the Mariners in order. 

Max Fried’s final line: five innings pitched, four hits allowed, one earned run, two walks, and five strikeouts on 91 pitches. Fried threw his fastball 54% of the time, sweeper 14%, curveball 12%, sinker 11%, changeup 7%, and the cutter 2% of the time. Fried didn't have his best command tonight; he also didn't get much help from the home plate umpire, who was squeezing him all night. But Fried was still able to put together a solid start as he now has a 1.11 ERA, the lowest ERA ever by a Yankee through the first nine starts of the season.  

Austin Wells picked up a one-out double down the first base line into the right field corner to knock Woo out of the game in the top of the seventh. The next batter, Anthony Volpe, worked a walk, then Wells and Volpe executed a perfect double steal. But Jasson Dominguez and Oswald Peraza went down on strikes to strand runners on second and third with one out. 

In the bottom of the seventh inning, Mark Leiter Jr. came in to pitch, replacing Cruz, and retired the Marniers in order and picked up two strikeouts. 

Trent Grisham lined a one-out single to left field, but that would be all for the Yankees in the eighth, as Aaron Judge went down on strikes and Beli flew out to strand the tying run. 

In the bottom of the eighth inning, Luke Weaver replaced Leiter Jr. on the mound and retired the Mariners in order, picking up two strikeouts in the process. DJ LeMahieu also took over at second base, making his season debut after being activated off the IL earlier today. 

In the top of the ninth inning, Paul Goldschmidt led off by being hit by a 98 mph fastball right on the hand and immediately stole second base. Pablo Reyes pinch-ran for Goldy and was able to move to third on a groundout from Austin Wells. 

Then, the tying run came across to score to make it a 1-1 game on a groundball to first base from Anthony Volpe. Mariners first baseman Dylan Moore tried throwing out Reyes at the plate, but air-mailed him. The first earned run  Mariners closer Andres Munoz has given up this season. The next batter, Jasson Dominguez, struck out looking on a pitch well below the zone, and Boone lost it, getting ejected from the game. 

Weaver remained in the game for the bottom of the ninth and retired the Mariners in order to force extra innings. 

LeMahieu, in his first at-bat of the season, led off the 10th inning with a strikeout. Grisham also went down on strikes, then Judge was intentionally walked, and Beli flew out to strand the go-ahead run at second base. 

In the bottom of the 10th inning, Devin Williams replaced Weaver on the mound and retired the Mariners in order to send the game to the 11th inning. 

In the top of the 11th inning, Reyes grounded out to advance the Manfred runner to third base, then Wells popped out, and Volpe worked a walk to put runners at the corners with two outs for Dominguez. Dominguez grounded out to second base to strand runners at the corners. 

Tim Hill replaced Williams in the bottom of the 11th inning and served up a walk-off single to J.P. Crawford to end this game 2-1 and set up a rubber match tomorrow.  

Will Warren will take the mound for the Yankees, and Luis Castillo will get the start for the Mariners. The first pitch will be at 4:10 p.m. ET on the YES Network. 

My thoughts on the game: brutal game offensively as Bryan Woo shut the Yankees down for most of the night, and then the Mariners' bullpen shut them down after that as well. Another solid start from Fried as he was able to limit the Mariners, who have been one of the best offenses in baseball this year, to just one run. Tomorrow, we need another good start from Warren to win the series. Sorry for not having quotes tonight, I have to get up for work early tomorrow and didn't want to wait.