Canzone's 3-Run Blast Flips the Script, Seattle Wins 6-4
Dominic Canzone went 3-for-5 with a home run, 4 RBI, and the single swing that turned a 3-1 deficit into a Seattle lead. The Mariners trailed by two heading into the seventh, then outscored Texas 5-1 the rest of the way to take it 6-4.
Texas looked in control for most of the afternoon. Duran's sacrifice fly to center scored Pederson in the first, and Seattle answered in the third when Rodríguez singled to left to bring Young home and tie it at one. But the Rangers pushed back in the fourth — Carter singled to right to score Nimmo, then Lopez reached on an infield single to second and Burger came in to make it 3-1. Jacob deGrom was doing his part, working five innings and allowing just one earned run on seven hits with four strikeouts and zero walks. Seattle was getting hits but not damage, and Texas had an 83% win probability heading into the seventh.
Then Canzone happened. He homered to right — 400 feet — scoring Emerson and Young, a three-run shot that flipped the scoreboard and the game's entire complexion. Win probability swung from 83% to 34% in Texas's favor on that single swing, a 49-point collapse in one at-bat. Before the inning was over, Randy Arozarena followed with his own 400-foot shot to right center, and just like that Seattle led 5-3. The story of the night was a seventh inning that the Rangers simply had no answer for. Logan Gilbert had given Seattle 5.2 innings of work — three earned runs, four strikeouts — but it was the bullpen that locked things down. Gabe Speier threw 1.1 hitless innings with three strikeouts, and Andres Munoz closed it out with a perfect ninth, also striking out three.
Duran gave Texas a pulse in the eighth with a 420-foot solo shot to left, cutting the deficit to 5-4 and making things briefly interesting. But Canzone wasn't done — he doubled to right in the ninth to score Rodríguez and push the lead back to two, which is where it ended. Canzone's 4 RBI on a 3-for-5 night looks like the kind of performance that carries a lineup, and Arozarena's 3-for-5 showing with a home run gave Seattle two bats at the top of their order that Texas simply couldn't contain once the seventh arrived. For the Rangers, deGrom's line was clean enough to win on most nights — the bullpen just couldn't hold what he built.