Randy Arozarena's walkoff hit in 10th lifts Mariners over Diamondbacks

On the weekend the Mariners are celebrating all things from the 1990s, Friday felt like a throwback to many nights from that decade inside the Kingdome when there was an abundance of loud contact and baseballs were leaving the yard.

It was J.P. Crawford who got the night started. He also brought it to an end.

Crawford homered twice in a game for the first time in his career and scored the winning run on Randy Arozarena's one-out hit in the 10th inning to give the M's a 7-6 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks before 44,198 at T-Mobile Park.

Julio Rodríguez and Luke Raley also added long balls, and Arozarena dropped a liner into right-center field off Arizona's Juan Morillo to bring Crawford home with the winning run.

I wasn't trying to swing for the fences and just hit a home run like I felt like I was doing last year. I was just trying to make good contact with it and bring somebody in," Arozarena said via team interpreter Freddy Llanos.

That somebody was Crawford and it capped a huge night for the M's shortstop that included a defensive gem in the top of the 10th inning making a diving stop on Corbin Carroll's shot to help keep Arizona scoreless and set the stage for the walkoff celebration a few minutes later.

"Late in the game just trying to dive, keep the ball in the infield," Crawford said.

The M's found themselves in extras after closer Andrés Muñoz stumbled in the ninth inning and allowed Arizona to tie the game at 6-6 on Ildemaro Vargas' bases loaded infield grounder that Josh Naylor couldn't cleanly field. But the M's came through in the 10th to win their fourth straight, matching their season high. They are back at .500 (29-29) for the first time since the end of April.

"It seems like in that last series everything was firing for us and tonight I thought everything fired for us again," M's manager Dan Wilson said. "Good defense, we had great offense and I thought our guys threw the ball well."

As it's been for most of May - and really most of the season - the home run was the catalyst for the M's offense. The M's entered Friday having scored nearly 60% of their runs in May (63 of 106) courtesy of the home run in the first 25 games of the month.

And then they added six more to that total.

For the season, the M's have scored 125 of 247 runs thanks to the homer. They're the only team in baseball scoring more than 50% of their runs via the long ball. It might not be sustainable in the long term, but that's what was needed on Friday.

Crawford got it started, hitting the fifth pitch from Arizona starter Zac Gallen's into the right field seats for his 16th career leadoff homer. In the only other start Gallen had made in his career at T-Mobile Park two years ago, he also gave up a leadoff home run. That time it was to Josh Rojas on the first pitch of the bottom of the first.

"We got to set the tone and set the tone early, get the boys fired up," Crawford said.

Crawford's second long ball in the fifth inning was sandwiched around Rodríguez setting another career mark that's likely to be eclipsed sometime in the future. Rodriguez scorched his ninth homer in the month of May into the bullpens in left field for a two-run shot that game the M's a 3-0 lead. It set a new career-high for homers in a month for Rodríguez and was his 11th on the season.

"When he finds a barrel, it goes and everything is 105, 110 (mph) off the bat when he smokes it," Wilson said. "He's in a really good spot right now."

Crawford followed two innings later with a two-run shot of his own out to right-center field and with it the first multi-homer game of his career. Crawford clubbed a high fastball from Gallen in the first inning, but was able to adjust and wait on a changeup for the homer in the fifth that traveled 417 feet.

For a while Raley's 12th home run of the year looked like it would be the difference. Raley's career-high of 22 homers came two years ago in his first season with the M's; he's currently on pace for 33 this year.

But Muñoz couldn't protect the lead. Geraldo Perdomo and Gabriel Moreno opened the ninth with consecutive singles and Muñoz hit Nolan Arenado with a wayward 98 mph fastball on the first pitch to load the bases with no outs.

Muñoz struck out Ryan Waldschmidt, but Naylor couldn't make a barehand play on Vargas' slow chopper as he attempted to field and throw home in one motion, allowing Perdomo to score the tying run that led to extras.

M's starter George Kirby was allowed just one run through the first five innings on Perdomo's solo home run. But the sixth unraveled quickly and even Matt Brash couldn't halt Arizona's rally.

Arizona sent 10 batters to the plate and scored four runs on five hits. Moreno's two-run double ended Kirby's night and Jose Fernandez's two-out RBI single dropped in front of Raley in right field and tied the game at 5-5. It also marked the first run allowed this season by Brash in his 17th appearance. Brash finally escaped the bases loaded jam by striking out Ketel Marte to end the threat.

Kirby continued his streak of pitching at least five innings in every start this year. He struck out four, but was tagged for four earned runs and has allowed 13 over his last three starts combined.

"I thought George had great stuff coming out of the chute and had great velocity," Wilson said. "It's a team that puts the ball in play, and they find holes, they get on base and they did that to a couple of our guys.

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This story was originally published May 29, 2026 at 11:39 PM.