Cole Young Goes 3-for-3 With Two Homers as Seattle Rolls

Cole Young went 3-for-3 with two home runs and three RBI, single-handedly dragging Seattle back from a two-run deficit and into a 6-2 win over Los Angeles. The story of the night was a 22-year-old who looked completely unbothered by the moment — and George Kirby making sure the Angels never got another crack at it.

Los Angeles came out swinging. Denzer Guzman singled to right to score Zach Neto in the first, and Neto added a 396-foot solo shot to left center in the third to push the Angels to a 2-0 lead. Seattle's answer came immediately: Young responded in the same inning with a 412-foot blast to center, cutting it to 2-1 and signaling that the Mariners weren't going quietly.

The real turning point arrived in the fourth. With the score still 2-1, Cal Raleigh singled to left, scoring both Arozarena and Naylor to flip the game 3-2 Seattle. That single swing shifted the win probability from 52% to 77% in favor of the Mariners — a 24-point lurch that effectively ended Los Angeles's night as a competitive exercise. Dominic Canzone then crushed a 428-foot homer to right center in the sixth to make it 4-2, and Young put the game away with a 406-foot two-run shot to right, his second of the night, pushing the final to 6-2.

Kirby was the quiet backbone of all of it. He went 8.0 innings, allowing 7 hits and 2 earned runs while walking just one and striking out seven — the kind of outing that makes a bullpen irrelevant. On the other side, Ryan Johnson held Seattle to 1 earned run over 5.0 innings with zero walks, but Mitch Farris came on and surrendered 3 earned runs in 3.0 innings, which is where the game got away from Los Angeles for good. The Angels are an organization in transition — interim GM John Mozeliak has publicly said he's not eyeing massive change right away — but nights like this, where the pitching depth falls apart in the middle innings, look like exactly the kind of problem that doesn't fix itself. Young's line — 3-for-3, two homers, three RBI, two runs scored — was the performance of the game, full stop.