{"id":251217,"date":"2025-09-24T13:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T13:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/251217\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T13:53:10","slug":"josh-naylors-gapper-clinches-mariners-berth-ignites-west-title-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/251217\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Naylor\u2019s gapper clinches Mariners berth, ignites West title push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/news\/josh-naylors-gapper-clinches-mariners-berth-ignites-west-title-push\/ced5a2601698a0ad505b7797?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Josh Naylor\u2019s gapper clinches Mariners berth, ignites West title push;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Josh Naylor\u2019s gapper clinches Mariners berth, ignites West title push<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=appeared_on\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Sporting News;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Seattle Mariners needed one swing to flip a tense night. Josh Naylor delivered it. His eighth-inning, bases-loaded double cracked T-Mobile Park wide open and sealed a 4-3 comeback over the Rockies, sealing Seattle\u2019s return to October and tightening their grip on the AL West race.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>How Seattle flipped the game around<\/p>\n<p>For seven innings, the bats lagged against a staff with the league\u2019s worst ERA. Then the eighth arrived. Luke Raley wore a pitch, J.P. Crawford walked, and after two strikeouts, Julio Rodr\u00edguez took a heater off the elbow guard to load them up. Naylor stayed short on a 2-0 fastball and rifled it into the left-center gap. Three runs scored. Rodr\u00edguez flew from the\u00a0 first like he had a head start.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/detroit-tigers\/news\/detroit-tigers-looking-avoid-something-never-done-mlb-history\/88e234ecab813832a0806b64\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Detroit Tigers looking to avoid something never done in MLB history;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Detroit Tigers looking to avoid something never done in MLB history<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Andres Mu\u00f1oz made the ninth look easy. The party was on, Playoffs secured. One more step toward the division the city has chased since 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Seattle has been building to this. The rotation looks nasty again, even with Bryan Woo going through a pectoral issue. Midseason pickups Naylor and Eugenio Su\u00e1rez brought thump and edge. The bullpen is handling the late-inning stress. After a 6-15 wobble that rattled nerves, the Mariners ripped through Houston, stacked wins at home, and reminded everyone what their ceiling looks like.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle wants to keep rolling<\/p>\n<p>The standings reflect it. Seattle is winning at home, widening space on Houston, and sitting in a lane for a first-round bye. It has been a long time since this city hosted a World Series game. Nights like this make it feel less like a wish and more like a path.<\/p>\n<p>One swing lit it. Now the job is to keep the lights on.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><strong>More MLB News:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Naylor\u2019s gapper clinches Mariners berth, ignites West title push originally appeared on The Sporting News The Seattle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":251218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[81121,1885,24893,4345,40619,68479,34549,133001,1266,1288,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-251217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-bryan-woo","9":"tag-detroit-tigers","10":"tag-eugenio-suarez","11":"tag-houston","12":"tag-j-p-crawford","13":"tag-josh-naylor","14":"tag-julio-rodriguez","15":"tag-luke-raley","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-seattle-mariners","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115259611844234534","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}