> ## 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. # Cole Young Walks Mets Off; Mariners Win Seventh Straight - URL: https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/seattle-mariners-win-seven-straight-cole-young-walk-off-new-york-mets/ - Published: 2026-06-02T10:06:58.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-08T06:11:28.000Z - Author: Callaghan Bluechel - Tags: News, Analysis, Mariners, Cole Young, Dan Wilson, Luke Raley, Rob Refsnyder, Colt Emerson, Josh Naylor, Emerson Hancock, Jose A. Ferrer, Matt Brash, Andres Munoz, Gabe Speier \[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="4662"\] ![ Seattle Mariners second baseman Cole Young (2) reacts after hitting a walk-off RBI-single against the New York Mets during the tenth inning at T-Mobile Park. Mandatory Credit: Joe Nicholson-Imagn Images ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1d/f2/1df2f77b-83dd-4bc0-a6d2-6d1bb5df89a3/content/images/2026/10/cole-young-walkoff-format-original.jpg) Seattle Mariners second baseman Cole Young (2) reacts after hitting a walk-off RBI-single against the New York Mets during the tenth inning at T-Mobile Park. Mandatory Credit: Joe Nicholson-Imagn Images \[/caption\] A baseball club in Seattle is showing that when it rains, it pours. Through May 24, the team went 7-12 in one-run games and lost four out of five extra-innings contests. Since then, the M’s have won three of each, with all the luck falling their way even in games where they leave quite a lot on the table. All three of those have been walk-off wins, each from the bat of a different Mariner. Monday’s hero in the end was Cole Young, but unlike the others, there was a notable uniqueness to his hit. During the game, 22 players had plate appearances on Monday night. Four had hit home runs, but other than Young, no hitter had found a patch of green grass or evaded the waiting glove of an opponent. Mariners manager Dan Wilson smirked as he described his team’s “flair for the dramatic” after the game, the team’s second straight 3-2 10-inning victory. That was certainly an understatement, though the drama started with dueling lineup card moves between the managers. ### Seattle tried to play coy with the lineup against the Mets opener, but the visitors got the hurling they sought. For the first time all year, the Mariners faced a team going with the fabled “opener” strategy, with listed starter Austin Warren being a bullpen arm tasked with beginning the game. That setup has its issues, but so had Manaea; the once-blockbuster signing entered the game with a 5.56 ERA entirely as a relief arm. Wilson anticipated this and so attempted to work in a Luke Raley at-bat against the right-handed Warren while also putting Rob Refsnyder in the lineup at the same time, anticipating Manaea by the seventh spot in the order. That wasn’t how things turned out. The Mariners didn’t get any traffic in the first inning, and when Warren showed the first signs of shakiness with an errant pitch plunking Randy Arozarena, visiting manager Carlos Mendoza yanked him for the bulk-throwing Manaea. The Mets reasonably figured they’d rather force Raley into a left-on-left situation and face the guy with the .438 OPS. Cole Young walked to put another runner on, but New York’s plan went off without a hitch as Refsnyder grounded into a double play to close out the frame. ### No team got a field hit until the bottom of the seventh. Perhaps there are few in this world who derive excitement from the phrase “.000 combined BABIP,” but given who is writing these words, it’s bound to be discussed. The first 46 batters did not log a single, double, or triple for either the Mets or Mariners. Most balls in play were hit weakly and right at people, with only one difficult play to be made by A.J. Ewing before the M’s broke the drought with a single in the bottom of the seventh. That wasn’t to say that the putative no-hitters went that far in the game. The opener Warren and the bulk-man Manaea didn’t allow a knock until the third, but when an 0-1 Manaea sweeper backed up on him against Colt Emerson, the rookie infielder whacked it into the right field seats. The other Emerson - Hancock,that is - began his outing with four straight perfect innings for the second straight time, completely mystifying the Mets with an arsenal primarily composed of four-seamers but with enough cutters, sinkers, and sweepers to keep New York on their toes. He had five strikeouts in these first four innings on a mix of heaters and secondaries, swings and takes. But Hancock fell behind Mets first baseman Jared Young 3-1 and threw a fastball in quite a hittable spot. The hurler had given up a few fairly deep fly balls to this point, and this time, the Mets got a run on the board; J. Young clobbered a ball well over the wall in center to knot it up. Despite Hancock recovering to log two punchouts in the fifth, New York went out to a lead in the following inning as Marcus Semien caught up to a full count heater that tailed right into his wheelhouse. It was another solo home run. Still, nobody had any other kind of hit. That remained so until the bottom of the seventh, when C. Young plunked a ball into shallow right. The performance in the top halves was indicative both of the Mets’ continuing struggles and of Emerson Hancock’s continuing excellence; the starter is now 15th in starter ERA league-wide with 2.80 and fifth best in starter walks and hits per innings pitched (WHIP) with 0.948\. For the M’s against Manaea, however, it wound up being an ugly showing against a left-hander and the exact thing the team has been looking to prevent. Part of it was the eaten misplay regarding Raley - he very much looked the part of someone who only hits righties - but Refsnyder didn’t do anything with the stick in a regression from his showings in Sacramento, and other than Josh Naylor, the top of the order went down without much fight. All of this was more gruesome considering Manaea’s ballooned ERA going into the game, though it’s worth noting his 3.66 fielding independent pitching (FIP) that certainly suggested he was due for a good outing. Both teams’ combined batting average on balls in play wound up being .054, 2-for-37 out of 62 total at-bats (with the BABIP figure, of course, taking out the 21 strikeouts and four homers). For the Mets, they became the second team to ever hit only home runs in an extra-inning game and lose; the other is the Pittsburgh Pirates, who did that feat on May 1, 2017 on the road against the Cincinnati Reds. ### Josh Naylor hit a game-tying home run but had to exit with back spasms. That fourth home run came from Naylor’s bat in the bottom of the seventh against lefty reliever Brooks Raley, who grooved him a full count spinner that ended up a mile high and well into the right field seats. It was Naylor’s first extra base hit since May 14 and his first homer since May 8, but given that he was leading off the inning, it served as no more and no less than the equalizer. It seems the Mariners first baseman put himself out of commission with the swing, though. He and Dan Wilson rather quickly decided that he would have to be out for the rest of Monday’s game, at least, as Patrick Wisdom came on for Raley - both to prepare for Naylor leaving and to take Raley out against a left-hander - and Víctor Robles came on as a defensive replacement for Naylor in the eighth with the right fielder and first baseman switching positions. “I believe it was more on the swing, on the home run, and when he got back in, it (Naylor’s back) was tight,” Wilson said about Naylor’s injury, noting that he is day-to-day. Teams tend to be cagey with injury updates, so it’s unclear the severity of Naylor’s injury. Seattle will probably rest him for the next crop of games, however. ### Seattle’s bullpen put on a clinic, shoving four scoreless innings including a spotless 10th. Despite the winning streak, there had been some notable recent shakiness from relievers such as Matt Brash and Andrés Muñoz, perhaps leaving a pit of worry as things turned over from the starter in the seventh. Jose A. Ferrer had not been one of the struggling arms, however, and he hurled a spotless 7th against the opposing 3-4-5 hitters. But as Brash started falling out of the zone once getting MJ Melendez to 0-2, and especially after he hit him with the fifth pitch, New York finally had the beginnings of an opportunity. Third baseman Brett Baty grounded it softly towards Young. Melendez ran towards the base and Young moved in to grab the ball, but the two were on a collision course. In quick succession, Young picked up the ball, tagged Melendez, and threw to first for the out. The two had collided, of course, and Mendoza went out to the field to argue interference, but Young had the right-of-way to make the play. “I didn’t know that (right-of-way) during that time, but I guess I tried to just time it up, where I catch the ball, tag him, throw to first, but definitely the first time that’s ever happened,” Young said. “I mean, it was such a weird play. I don’t know, it was just instincts, trying to time it up, but luckily it worked out.” That play erased the only baserunner the Mets themselves produced against Mariner relievers. Muñoz quickly dealt with the ninth, but as the M’s didn’t produce anything to give themselves a lead or a regulation walk off, it was off to extras. Gabe Speier, in just his third appearance since returning from injury, had to start off with Juan Soto as the visitors got the first ghost runner. The two had a tough battle, with Soto spitting on some good sliders that were just a hair off the plate, but Speier blew a 3-2 heater by him to get the first out. Mark Vientos was the second Met to fall, this time on seven pitches, and when Ewing popped out, the M’s had kept a clean sheet in their third 10th inning in three extra inning games on the homestand. ### Cole Young walked the game off 366 days after his first big-league walk-off. On May 31, 2025, the Mariners’ Cole Young made his major league debut. Although he logged his first big-league hit in the bottom of the ninth of a tied game against the Minnesota Twins - and got 90 feet away from scoring before it went to extras - he wound up knocking a walk-off grounder that scored Miles Mastrobuoni to end things in the 11th. Young would only have to wait until the 10th a year and a day after that point. With Wisdom back up and the left-handed AJ Minter on the rubber, the M’s didn’t move to bunt Arozarena over to third, instead looking for some contact from their bench bat. They got the same effect as a bunt in the end, but it was all Arozarena who did those honors, playing mind games with Mets catcher Luis Torrens and rushing to third as Wisdom struck out on a full count. Up came Young, no longer a green rookie but a second-year having a breakout defensive campaign. And despite ups and downs with the stick, he kept his cool in that frame, and flicked a single into left to end the game and secure Seattle’s seventh straight win. It was the second single that anyone had hit all game. The first, of course, was Young’s own hit in the seventh. ### On Deck With a win either on Tuesday or on Wednesday, the M’s can do something they have not done yet to this point in the year: win three consecutive series. Seattle has all the momentum, that much is for sure. Even as they lay dormant for much of Monday night’s game, the Mariners still found a way to win. The Mets, meanwhile, lost their four game winning streak and returned to the ways they had been playing during their previous 1-7 stretch. But there are a lot of left-handers available for the visitors, and Seattle won’t be able to rely upon fortune forever; they will have to consistently take opposing southpaws to task.