Seattle Drops 19 on Athletics, Five Mariners Homer in Rout
Seattle put up 19 runs on the Athletics on September 13, with five different players going deep in a 19-1 demolition. Weston Wilson went 5-for-6, Cole Young drove in 5, and the Mariners turned what should have been a baseball game into an extended batting practice session.
The game was effectively over before it had a pulse. Dominic Canzone opened the scoring in the first with a 382-foot shot to right center, plating Crawford for a 2-0 lead. Then came the moment that sealed it: in the second, Randy Arozarena launched a 411-foot homer to left center, scoring Wilson and Crawford and pushing Seattle to 5-0. That swing moved the home win probability from 26% to 10% — a 17-point collapse in a single at-bat. Athletics managed their only run of the night in the third on a fielder's choice, but at 5-1, the math was already brutal.
Seattle kept piling on with a kind of methodical indifference. The fourth inning added two more on a Wilson single and an Arozarena single. Cole Young went deep in the fifth — 407 feet to right center — to make it 9-1. The seventh belonged to Michael Arroyo (418 feet, left center) and J.P. Crawford (413 feet, center), the latter also scoring Wilson, pushing the lead to 12-1. Then the eighth inning arrived, and Seattle apparently decided a 12-run lead wasn't enough: four more runs scored on a Naylor double, a Young infield single, an Arroyo single, and a bases-loaded walk, making it 16-1. The ninth added three more — Young singled home two, Arroyo capped it with a sacrifice fly — and the final read 19-1.
The story of the night was the sheer distribution of damage. Five home runs from five different players. Young finished 3-for-6 with a homer, 5 RBI, and 2 runs scored. Arroyo went 3-for-4 with a homer and 3 RBI. Wilson, who appears to have been everywhere at once, went 5-for-6 and scored three times. On the mound, Bryan Woo handled the first six innings cleanly — 3 hits, 0 earned runs, 5 strikeouts — and three Seattle relievers finished without allowing an earned run. This looks like the kind of performance that doesn't just win a game; it sends a message about what this lineup is capable of when everything clicks at once.