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Major League Baseball
Seattle 6, Oakland 4
When: 3:37 PM ET, Thursday, September 5, 2024
Where: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, California
Temperature: 76°
Umpires: Home - Todd Tichenor, 1B - Cory Blaser, 2B - Manny Gonzalez, 3B - Tom Hanahan
Attendance: 5581

Cal Raleigh, Julio Rodriguez and Luke Raley each homered Thursday afternoon to help the visiting Seattle Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics 6-4 and earn a split of the teams' four-game series.

Raleigh added a sacrifice fly, Raley had three hits and Victor Robles contributed two hits and scored twice for Seattle (71-70), which snapped a four-game skid with Wednesday's 16-3 win.

Mariners right-hander Bryan Woo (7-2) allowed two runs on eight hits in five innings, striking out six without a walk.

Oakland right-hander Joey Estes (6-7) surrendered four runs on six hits in four innings. He struck out three and did not walk a batter.

Brent Rooker hit his 34th and 35th home runs of the season and Seth Brown had two hits and an RBI for the Athletics (61-80).

Robles was hit by a pitch to lead off the game, stole second and went to third when the catcher's throw went into center field. Rodriguez grounded out to first, but Raleigh turned on a fastball and pulled it over the fence in right for a two-run homer and a 2-0 lead.

It was the 88th home run of Raleigh's career, tying him with Rudy York for second-most among major league catchers in their first four seasons. Mike Piazza has the most with 92.

Rodriguez homered on the first pitch of the third inning, a 448-foot shot to left, extending the lead to 3-0.

Oakland loaded the bases with one out in the third on singles by Jacob Wilson, Lawrence Butler and JJ Bleday. Brown lined a sacrifice fly to center to trim the lead to 3-1.

Robles beat out a routine grounder to shortstop to start the fifth for Seattle. Rodriguez then reached on a fielding error by third baseman Max Schuemann, putting runners on the corners and ending Estes' day.

Raleigh followed with a sacrifice fly off reliever T.J. McFarland to make it 4-1.

In the bottom of the fifth, Rooker lifted a low slider over the fence in left to cut it to 4-2.

The Mariners went up 6-2 in the ninth on Raley's two-run shot to center. Those runs proved pivotal, as Rooker blasted a two-run homer off Andres Munoz in the bottom half of the inning to pull the A's within 6-4.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Seattle   Oakland
Bryan Woo Player Joey Estes
Win W/L Loss
5.0 IP 4.0
6 Strikeouts 3
8 Hits 6
3.60 ERA 9.00
Hitting
Seattle   Oakland
Luke Raley Player Seth Brown
3 Hits 2
2 RBI 1
1 HR 0
8 TB 2
.600 Avg .667
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Seattle 11 3 23 .306 20 8 6 3 2 0
Oakland 10 2 16 .278 15 11 4 2 0 2