Yankees Erupt for Four in the Seventh, Sink Seattle 4-1

New York scored all four of its runs in a single seventh-inning burst, turning a one-run deficit into a comfortable win. Randy Arozarena's 351-foot solo shot to right gave Seattle the lead, but the Yankees answered with three singles and four runs to close it out.

For six innings, this game belonged to the pitchers. Bryan Woo was sharp for Seattle — 5.0 innings, 3 hits, 0 earned runs, 5 strikeouts — and Ryan Weathers matched the tempo for New York, working 5.2 innings and allowing just 1 earned run on 2 hits. The only blemish on either starter's line came in the sixth, when Arozarena drove a 351-foot home run to right field to put Seattle on top 1-0. It looked like the kind of game where one swing might be enough.

It wasn't. The seventh inning is where this game was decided, and it happened fast. McMahon singled to left, scoring Chisholm Jr. and García Jr. to flip the score to 2-1 New York. That single swing shifted the win probability from 59% to 87% in favor of the Yankees — a 28-point lurch that effectively ended Seattle's night. Before the inning was over, Grisham added a single to left, scoring Jones and McMahon to push it to 4-1. Four runs, three singles, one inning. The Mariners' bullpen had no answer.

The story of the night was the Yankees' lineup manufacturing damage without needing extra-base hits. Grisham finished 2-for-4 with 2 RBI, McMahon went 1-for-3 with 2 RBI and a run scored, and García Jr. was 2-for-4 with a run. That's a lot of production from the middle of the order on a night when the ball wasn't leaving the yard for New York. Seattle, meanwhile, managed just 1 earned run on Weathers and couldn't generate anything after Arozarena's homer — Canzone went 1-for-3 and the lineup went quiet when it needed to respond. The bullpen arms on both sides — Jose Ferrer for Seattle and Brent Headrick for New York — each threw a clean inning with two strikeouts, but by then the outcome was already settled. New York wins, 4-1.