Overview
- Seattle, which won 3-2 on Sunday in St. Louis, got its first lead when Rob Refsnyder hit a pinch-hit homer in the ninth after a called third strike was overturned.
- The blast traveled 412 feet into the left-field bullpen off JoJo Romero after the ABS system changed an 0-2 strikeout to a ball on appeal.
- Starter Emerson Hancock went six innings with two solo homers allowed, and Eduard Bazardo earned the win before Jose Ferrer worked a clean ninth for his first save.
- Each club won four automated ball-strike challenges on plate umpire John Bacon during Mariners at-bats, including a J.P. Crawford trip where both sides had calls overturned.
- The sweep raised Seattle’s road wins from one to four and signaled how teams may lean on quick challenges and targeted pinch-hits in high-leverage innings.