Cole Young's 405-Foot Bomb Rescues Seattle From 3-0 Hole
Seattle was staring at a three-run deficit heading into the seventh inning before Cole Young erased all of it with one swing. Young's 405-foot, three-run homer to right center — the single biggest momentum shift of the night — carried the Mariners to a 4-3 walk-off win over San Francisco in extras.
San Francisco looked like it had this one locked up early. In the third, Bryce Eldridge singled to center and Drew Gilbert scored when the center fielder committed a fielding error, putting the Giants on the board first. Then the sixth inning turned into a Giants showcase: Rafael Devers launched a 339-foot solo shot to left, and Willy Adames immediately followed with a 358-foot homer to right. Just like that, it was 3-0 San Francisco, and Logan Webb was dealing — holding Seattle to just 2 hits over 6.2 innings while striking out five.
Then came the seventh, and Cole Young changed everything. With Arozarena and Naylor both on base, Young drove a 405-foot blast to right center that cleared the bases and tied the game at 3. Seattle's win probability swung from 12% to 55% on that single swing — a 44-point shift that flipped the entire complexion of the game. What looked like a comfortable Giants victory had become a coin flip, and the story of the night was Young refusing to let Seattle go quietly. He finished 2-for-4 with that homer and all three of Seattle's RBI before extras.
The game pushed to the tenth, where Julio Rodriguez — who had gone 0-for-4 at the plate — delivered when it mattered most, hitting a sacrifice fly to left that scored Robles and gave Seattle the 4-3 final. On the mound, Andres Munoz was untouchable in the tenth: 1.0 inning, no hits, no walks, two strikeouts. Erik Miller had been equally sharp for San Francisco in relief — 1.0 inning, no hits, no runs, two strikeouts — but it wasn't enough. Bryan Woo's line looks fine on paper (6.0 IP, 7 K, 2 ER), but he needed his offense to bail him out after Webb outpitched him for most of the night. The Giants appear to have gotten the better starting pitching performance and still lost, which is the kind of outcome that stings. Young's seventh-inning eruption is the reason this one belongs to Seattle.