Mariners win wild game over Baltimore in 10th inning

Published 8:49 am Wednesday, June 10, 2026

No closer, no problem.

After allowing two runs in the bottom of the ninth, the Seattle Mariners held on in the 10th for a 6-5 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday.

Randy Arozarena hit a two-run home run off Baltimore’s Rico Garcia in the top of the extra frame and Nick Davila — the last reliever available for the Mariners on Tuesday — escaped with his first Major League save.

Baltimore pushed the winning run up to 90 feet away in the bottom half of the frame, but Blaze Alexander was thrown out at home trying to score on an infield grounder for the second out, and Tyler O’Neill struck out to end the game.

“Extremely frustrating on a lot of counts,” manager Craig Albernaz said. “We just couldn’t get the big hit. A couple really good swings. Two of them with some bad bounces that bounced over the wall for ground-rule doubles that could have added some runs. But yeah, it’s just one of those games where every 90 feet, everything matters, and ultimately it just ended up in a one-run loss.”

The loss was the Orioles’ fourth straight coming off a stretch of 10 wins in 14 games.

Coby Mayo launched a one-out, ninth-inning rally with a solo shot off Mariners left-hander José A. Ferrer — pitching with closer Andrés Muñoz unavailable — to get the rally started, and Jeremiah Jackson followed with a single. He then moved to third on O’Neill’s ground-rule double before scoring on a ground ball by Samuel Basallo hit to Ferrer, who tried unsuccessfully to barehand the ball and beat Jackson home.

The Orioles had their chances to win it, particularly in the ninth when they loaded the bases with one out for Gunnar Henderson and Pete Alonso. Henderson grounded into a forceout, with O’Neill being thrown out at home. Alonso then hit another ball on the ground up the middle, and second baseman Ryan Bliss beat Henderson to the bag after the Orioles’ shortstop was slow to get into a full sprint.

“Yeah, it’s one of those plays where you have to empty the tank to get there,” Albernaz said. “I haven’t watched the actual video yet, but knowing Gunnar, he always would say there’s something more that he could do. But in that situation, his effort going into the bag, obviously watching the play, you pick it up at the last second. So, there was a lot of teaching moments in this game, just like in any game, and that’s how we have to get better to win those margins, whatever that is.”

The tie wouldn’t last long. The Mariners jumped back in front on their first at-bat of the 10th when Arozarena crushed a slider outside for an opposite-field homer. It was just the third homer and fourth earned run Garcia has allowed this season, but the second straight outing he’s given up a long ball.

“It was off the plate, away,” Albernaz said. “Randy is a really good hitter and a bad ball hitter. Not saying it’s a bad ball, meaning it doesn’t have to be in the strike zone. It can be out of the strike zone and he can still do damage. It was just up enough where he just got his barrel to it and got the right strike to go over the fence.”

The Orioles then got one run back when Leody Taveras singled to drive in the automatic runner, Pete Alonso, from second. Alexander, who was hit by a pitch to start the frame, got all the way to third base, but a ground ball by Jackson hit down the third base line wasn’t enough for him to score. The bang-bang play was challenged by the Orioles, and the call stood after replay review.

Trevor Rogers got off the hook for a tough-luck loss after a solid outing in which he allowed three runs on six hits and a walk with three strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings. The big blow was a three-run home run by catcher Mitch Garver with two down in the fourth. Rogers threw a fastball over the inner half, and Garver, who entered the game with a .617 OPS, crushed the ball 406 feet to left field for the Mariners’ second go-ahead homer in as many days.

“It was just one of those days where I was getting to 0-2, it seemed like, a lot today,” Rogers said. “They just kept putting up good at-bats and I thought that fastball in was a good pitch and he was sitting on it. So, you tip your cap there and I’ve just got to try to find a way to get over this two-strike hump. I feel like I’m getting to two strikes really well. I’m commanding the zone, pounding the zone. Just continuing to work in getting over this two-strike deal.”

Rogers was outdueled by Seattle starter Logan Gilbert. Taylor Ward led off the bottom of the first with a single and later came around to score on a fly ball by Taveras, but the right-hander settled in from there. He allowed just one hit — a double by Sam Huff — the rest of the way and logged six strong innings before turning the game over to the Mariners’ bullpen.

Seattle then extended its lead in the seventh when Andrew Kittredge allowed three straight two-out singles to Victor Robles, Julio Rodríguez and Arozarena.

Though Baltimore was gifted a leadoff base runner in the bottom half of the frame on a fielding error, and Jackson Holliday followed with an infield single, the only run the Orioles scored was on a wild pitch by reliever Alex Hoppe. O’Neill grounded into a double play and received a smattering of boos from the Camden Yards crowd.

The Orioles’ offense finally awoke just in time to force extras, but the Mariners outlasted them to ensure Seattle would at least have a series split in the four-game set.

“Definitely had shots in the ninth and the 10th to end the game,” Mayo said. “I’m guilty of that in the 10th. Wanted to come through there, obviously, and just didn’t do a good enough job getting the run home, which is frustrating, of course. I think there’s not a guy in here that doesn’t want to come through in those spots.”

Herald writer Aaron Coe contributed to this report.