> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # 3 Up, 3 Down: The Best and Worst Performances From Mariners’ Series Win vs. Reds - URL: https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/3-up-3-down-the-best-and-worst-performances-from-mariners-series-win-vs-reds/ - Published: 2025-04-18T17:07:38.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-08T05:37:36.000Z - Author: Corbin Smith - Tags: Mariners, Cal Raleigh, Dylan Moore, Randy Arozarena, Luis Castillo, Julio Rodriguez, Carlos Vargas, Troy Taylor, Gregory Santos, Eduard Bazardo [Embed from Getty Images](http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/2210879059?ref=emeraldcityspectrum.com) The Mariners are over .500 for the first time since Opening Day, winners of seven of their last 10 games with a three-series win streak following a wild mid-week battle with the Reds in Cincinnati. Here were the best and worst performances from the series. # 3 UP ### Cal Raleigh Might as well just repost what was said about Raleigh from the last *3 Up, 3 Down* because he basically did the same exact thing this series as he did against the Rangers, cracking three home runs, including the 100th dinger of his career. His eight home runs on the season put him all alone in second place of the major-league leaderboard in home runs behind Athletics first baseman Tyler Soderstrom, who has nine. ### Dylan Moore Moore was seeing the ball extraordinarily well this series, driving in all four of the Mariners’ runs on Tuesday thanks in large part to a pair of home runs off of Reds starter Nick Lodolo, then tallying four more hits on Wednesday and Thursday while stealing his third and fourth bags of the season. With his big contributions, he now finds himself leading all Mariners hitters with a wRC+ of 198. ### Randy Arozarena Arozarena continues to walk at a high rate, earning four more free passes on Wednesday and Thursday, but he also finally found some grass with regularity. He went a combined 6-for-11, with the two biggest of his six hits — a game-tying home run and a two-run double to pad the Mariners’ extra-innings lead — coming in the ninth and 10th innings of Thursday’s comeback win. While Raleigh, Moore, and Jorge Polanco have been Seattle’s best hitters so far, there hasn’t been a Mariner more clutch than Arozarena in the early going. # 3 DOWN ### Luis Castillo Castillo only needed seven pitches to get through the first inning of his start on Tuesday, seemingly setting the stage for a dominant return to Cincinnati. It was anything but from the second inning onward, however, as the veteran righty endured some serious command and control issues, allowing six earned runs on seven hits (eight hard-hit balls) and four walks while striking out just three, leading to an early exit after just 4.1 innings of work on 95 pitches. Despite Castillo’s track record of issues in cold-weather games, it was a shockingly non-competitive effort from him. ### Julio Rodríguez Having perhaps the best opening month of his career heading into this series, Rodríguez’s streakiness showed up in the worst way in Cincinnati. While he worked three walks, he went a combined 1-for-13 with four strikeouts and saw his batting average and wRC+ drop to .187 and 103, respectively. He’ll need to stop the bleeding soon, or else we could be looking at yet another below-average April for the face of Seattle’s franchise. ### Troy Taylor, Carlos Vargas, Gregory Santos, and Eduard Bazardo In other words: half of the Mariners’ bullpen, or at least the unit they entered Cincinnati with. Santos was tasked on Tuesday night with keeping the Reds’ lead at 6-4, which he failed to do, allowing two critical insurance runs to score on a hit and a trio of walks. That’s now eight walks to zero strikeouts for Santos on the season, and as a result, he was optioned to Triple-A Tacoma after the game to try and work through his struggles. Taylor made his season debut on Wednesday with a 5-0 lead, but the Reds jumped all over him and he was forced to exit before recording a single out. Vargas took over and was able to work through the inning without conceding the Mariners’ lead, but not before one of the runners he inherited scored, finalizing Taylor’s line at three earned runs on three hits. The next day, with the Mariners’ leading 4-2 in the bottom of the seventh, Vargas made his first back-to-back appearance of the year and did not handle it well, giving up a run and walking the bases loaded; his final line could’ve looked a lot worse if not for a Trent Thornton strikeout of Elly De La Cruz to end the threat. Cincinnati struck back an inning later, however, as Bazardo suffered similar issues to Vargas, finding himself in a bases-loaded jam after walking a pair and giving up three hits. Of those three hits, though, only one registered an exit velocity of over 95 miles per hour, but it was the biggest hit of the game up to that point: a go-ahead grand slam off the bat of former Seattle outfielder Jake Fraley. Fortunately for the Mariners, Fraley’s four-run shot quickly became a distant a memory as Seattle’s bats rattled off six combined runs between the ninth and 10th innings to win 11-7, but it was nevertheless a rough few days for the middle portion of the club’s bullpen.