The Blue Jays beat the Mariners 6-3 at T-Mobile Park in Seattle on Saturday night, notching their third straight win and handing the M’s their first series loss in their last 10. Here’s what you need to know:
The Jays spotted the home side three early runs and began the comeback with a two-run homer from Bo Bichette in the fifth — just his second dinger of the season. Addison Barger beat out a double-play ball in the sixth to tie the game and singled in the go-ahead run in the Jays’ three-run eighth.
The bullpen was perfect behind Bowden Francis, who went 6 2/3 innings in his longest outing of the season.
Alejandro Kirk contributed four singles to the Jays’ 10-hit attack and Jeff Hoffman struck out the side in order in the ninth for his ninth save.
Fastballs
The Myles Straw game
Myles Straw, acquired by the Jays in a too-aggressive January trade in a futile attempt to sign free agent Roki Sasaki, continues to make the most of his opportunity.
Starting in left field in the absence of Anthony Santander, who tweaked his shoulder making a catch in Anaheim on Thursday, Straw was a big part of Saturday’s win on both sides of the ball.
The 30-year-old made a full-on Superman dive to his right on a Julio Rodriguez liner leading off the sixth, taking away what would have been at least a leadoff double in a tie game.
GREAT grab by Kilomytres Straw, tbh
— pc28Blue Jays (@BlueJays)
In the eighth, Straw was at the plate with two on and two out, the Jays having just taken a 4-3 lead. He drove in both runners with an opposite-field single.
Blue Jays outfielder George Springer dives in to home plate to score a run during the eighth inning against the Seattle Mariners at T-Mobile Park on May 10, 2025 in Seattle, Washington.
Stephen Brashear Getty ImagesFormidable Fluharty
Rookie Mason Fluharty was spotless yet again, taking over for Francis with runners on the corners and two out in a 3-3 tie in the seventh. He popped up J.P. Crawford to end the inning, then worked a perfect bottom of the eighth — the left-hander retiring three consecutive right-handed hitters.
Fluharty has retired 21 batters in a row and right-handed hitters are 0-for-28 against him overall.
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Former Blue Jay Rowdy Tellez opened the scoring with his sixth home run of the year, a solo shot with two out in the second.
It was his fourth homer this season against the Jays and his second off Francis, for whom he was traded back in 2021 in a deal with Milwaukee in which Trevor Richards also came to Toronto.
Rowdy spent last season in Pittsburgh after leaving the Brew Crew as a free agent and signed with Seattle this winter.
Mailbag
“Will the Rockies break the White Sox’ record,” asked lagolfer112, who follows me on Bluesky @wilnerness.
Normally we reserve this space for Blue Jays questions, but given that the Colorado Rockies lost 21-0 at home to the San Diego Padres on Saturday, I’ll take it.
The Rox are terrible. That pounding dropped them to 6-33 on the season, which is a pace for 137 losses over a full season and just 25 wins. That would easily be a modern-day record for futility. Last year’s pitiful White Sox still would have finished 16 games ahead of that.
Those Sox were outscored by 306 runs last season and these Rockies — less than a quarter of the way through this season — have already been outscored by 134.
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