{"id":2031027,"date":"2025-09-18T08:01:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2031027"},"modified":"2025-09-18T08:01:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:01:02","slug":"seattle-mariners-win-streak-halted-in-7-5-loss-to-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/seattle-mariners-win-streak-halted-in-7-5-loss-to-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Mariners&#8217; win streak halted in 7-5 loss to Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Adam Frazier hit a go-ahead, two-run home run in the eighth inning and the Kansas City Royals went on to beat Seattle 7-5 on Wednesday night and snap the Mariners\u2019 10-game winning streak.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kansas City Royals 7, Seattle Mariners 5: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/seattlesports.sports.gracenote.com\/baseball\/mlb\/boxscore\/673930\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Box Score<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eugenio Su\u00e1rez snapped an 0-for-32 skid with four hits, two RBIs and two runs for Seattle.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/streamable.com\/m\/adam-frazier-homers-7-on-a-fly-ball-to-left-field-michael-massey-scores?partnerId=web_multimedia-search_video-share\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lucas Erceg (8-4) earned the win despite giving up the lead on J.P. Crawford\u2019s homer in eighth. Carlos Est\u00e9vez allowed a ninth-inning run, but picked up his MLB-best 40th save.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle\u2019s Matt Brash (1-3) gave up four runs and four hits in two-thirds of an inning.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/streamable.com\/m\/j-p-crawford-homers-11-on-a-fly-ball-to-right-field?partnerId=web_multimedia-search_video-share\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cole Ragans, making his first start for Kansas City since June 5, allowed two runs on one hit through 3 2\/3 innings. He struck out four and walked two. He had been on the IL with a strained left rotator cuff. He threw his first six pitches for strikes and struck out the side on 10 pitches in the first inning.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle\u2019s Bryce Miller allowed three runs on eight hits in five innings.<\/p>\n<p>Salvador Perez opened the scoring in the first with a 435-foot, three-run home run to center field.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/streamable.com\/m\/salvador-perez-homers-29-on-a-fly-ball-to-center-field-vinnie-pasquantino?partnerId=web_multimedia-search_video-share\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Su\u00e1rez answered with a 416-foot, two-run home run in the second inning to cut the deficit to 3-2. Su\u00e1rez led off the seventh with a double and scored the tying run on a sacrifice fly by Mitch Garver.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle fell one-half game behind the Houston Astros for first place in the AL West.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Moment<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Frazier\u2019s home run put the Royals back in front after surrendering the lead in the top of the eighth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Stat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Royals were 5 of 13 with runners in scoring position. The Mariners were 0 for 4.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Up Next<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The teams compete their three-game series on Thursday. Seattle will start RHP Luis Castillo (9-8, 3.76 ERA) while Kansas City will send RHP Stephen Kolek (5-5, 3.71 ERA) to the mound.<\/p>\n<h2>More on the Seattle Mariners<\/h2>\n<p>\u2022 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/seattle-mariners-prospect-montes-wins-2nd-straight-mvp\/1822506\">Mariners Minors Notebook: Lazaro Montes wins 2nd straight MVP<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/seattle-mariners-cal-raleigh-name-hr-mantle-griffey\/1822487\">Cal Raleigh can\u2019t believe his name is now beside Mantle and Griffey<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/seattle-mariners-josh-naylor-cost-contract-espn-jeff-passan\/1822378\">ESPN\u2019s Passan: What it could cost Seattle Mariners to keep Josh Naylor<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/seattle-mariners-heater-jorge-polanco-jeff-passan\/1822363\">Passan: \u2018The Mariners go on heaters when Jorge Polanco goes on heaters\u2019<\/a><br \/>\u2022 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\/seattle-mariners-magic-number-make-playoffs-single-digit\/1822493\">Seattle Mariners\u2019 magic number to make playoffs is a single digit<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"textwidget custom-html-widget\">\n<div style=\"width: 100%\">\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.mynorthwest.com\/newsletters\">\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.seattlesports.com\/sea710\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/SeattleSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source sports.mynorthwest.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Adam Frazier hit a go-ahead, two-run home run in the eighth inning and the Kansas City Royals went on to beat Seattle 7-5 on Wednesday night and snap the Mariners\u2019 10-game winning streak. Kansas City Royals 7, Seattle Mariners 5: Box Score Eugenio Su\u00e1rez snapped an 0-for-32 skid with four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2031028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[24215,351045,351044,21848,346677,24892,22765],"class_list":["post-2031027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-home","tag-mynorthwest-com","tag-mynorthwest-com-seattle-news","tag-sports","tag-talk-and-community","tag-traffic","tag-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Seattle-Mariners-win-streak-halted-in-7-5-loss-to-Royals.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}