SEATTLE -- Now this was the type of well-rounded win the Mariners have been seeking for much of the past few weeks.
And perhaps fittingly, it came on a night they were playing from behind just two batters and six pitches in.
Cole Young crushed two massive homers for his first career multihomer game, yet Dominic Canzone had the deepest fly of the night despite grinding through a right hamstring strain, a 428-foot, left-on-left blast off reliever Mitch Farris. Cal Raleigh delivered on his own messaging to calm things down with runners in scoring position to give Seattle the lead for good.
And the consistent force through it all was George Kirby, who -- once handed the lead in the fourth inning -- was absolutely dominant. The right-hander overcame a few early hiccups to clear the eighth inning, capped by an emphatic strikeout to Nolan Schnauel that stranded two runners on his 100th pitch.
Chalk it all up, and the Mariners wiped away a brutal bullpen breakdown from the day prior and cruised to a 6-2 win over the Angels on Monday night at T-Mobile Park.