Eugenio Suárez's 3-run blast lifts Mariners past Padres

Adam Jude, The Seattle Times on Aug 27, 2025

Published in Baseball

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SEATTLE — Bryan Woo’s sizzling Seattle summer rolled along.

Eugenio Suárez’s is just starting to pick up steam.

Woo was sharp over 5 2/3 innings to wrap up a brilliant August, and Suárez hit his second three-run homer in as many days to power the Mariners to a 4-3 victory over the San Diego Padres on Wednesday afternoon.

Woo was brilliant again early, scattering three hits over five scoreless innings.

The Mariners’ 25-year-old emerging ace was one out away from extending his streak of six-inning starts to open the season, but he was pulled with the bases loaded and two outs in the top of the sixth inning after back-to-back soft singles by Gavin Sheets and Jose Iglesias brought in the Padres’ first run.

Iglesias reached on a swinging bunt that rolled slowly near the third-base line. Woo fielded it cleanly but his throw to first base was just late.

Woo was visibly upset — almost certainly because he didn’t get that last out — as Mariners manager Dan Wilson came out of the dugout and made the call to the bullpen. But Woo acknowledged a standing ovation from the crowd of 37,600 as he made the slow walk back to the dugout.

That snapped his streak of 25 starts of at least six innings to open the season. He’s the first MLB pitcher to do that since the Dodgers’ Zack Greinke in 2015.

With the bases loaded, the first pitch from M’s lefty Gabe Speier hit Jake Cronenworth in the left arm as the Padres’ left-hander showed bunt. The hit-by-pitch brought in a run to close the Mariners’ lead to 4-2.

Speier stranded the bases loaded when the got the next batter, Padres’ No. 9 hitter Felix Fermin, to swing through a 2-2 slider to end the inning.

Woo’s final line: 5 2/3 innings, six hits, two runs, one walk, six strikeouts.

In five August starts, Woo threw 31 2/3 innings and posted a 2.27 ERA, with a 39-to-6 strikeout-to-walk ratio.

Suárez, the popular third baseman reacquired at the trade deadline, hit his fifth home run in 25 games back with the Mariners.

In the first 23 games of his second stint with the M’s, Suárez hit .169 with four homers, a 33.7% strikeout rate and a 70 wRC+ (100 is average).

He’s heating up now.

On Tuesday night, he hit a three-run homer off Padres reliever Jason Adam to give the Mariners a short-lived lead.

In the fourth inning Wednesday, with Julio Rodriguez at third, Josh Naylor at first and no outs, Suárez hit a towering blast on a first-pitch cutter from Padres starter Yu Darvish.

Suárez has 42 home runs and his 104 RBIs match his career high from 2018.

Luke Raley turned on a 71-mph curveball from Darvish and doubled into the right-center gap with two outs in the second inning, driving in Suárez from second for the game’s first run.

Suárez had singled and stole second, his fourth stolen base of the season.

Matt Brash pitched a 1-2-3 seventh inning.

Eduard Bazardo, pitching for the third straight day in this series, worked a scoreless eighth inning out the M’s bullpen. He got Ryan O’Hearn and Xander Bogaerts looking at 97 mph sinkers, and got Gavin Sheets to ground out weakly.

Andrés Muñoz stranded the tying run at second base to close it out for his 31st save.

The Mariners won four of six on the homestand and went 5-1 against the Padres this season in the first formal rendition of the Vedder Cup series.

The Mariners will fly out tonight to embark on a nine-game, 10-day East Coast trip through Cleveland, Tampa Bay and Atlanta.

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