Mariners slug 3 homers to support Bryan Woo's strong outing vs. Rangers

Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times on Apr 19, 2026

Published in Baseball

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SEATTLE — Maybe summer might arrive a little earlier for the Seattle Mariners and their warm-weather loving hitters.

On a perfect sun-drenched Sunday afternoon at T-Mobile Park, the Mariners secured their second series win of the season and looked quite strong in doing it.

Riding another strong outing from Bryan Woo and getting homers from Rob Refsnyder, J.P. Crawford and Randy Arozarena, Seattle looked and performed more like the team expected for so much success this season in a 5-2 victory over the Texas Rangers.

For the second straight day, Andrés Muñoz recorded the final out of the game, picking up the save and setting up a victorious postgame handshake line.

Facing hard-throwing lefty MacKenzie Gore, who has dominated them in recent outings, Refsnyder set the tone immediately.

He hammered Gore’s first pitch — a 96-mph fastball — over the wall in left field. It was Refsnyder’s first hit as a member of the Mariners.

It was just the second run that Gore allowed against the Mariners in four starts. But there would be more.

Crawford yanked a curveball over the wall for a two-run homer in the second inning for a 3-0 lead.

Arozarena made it 5-0, hitting a fly ball off the foul pole in left field for a two-run homer.

Woo continued his recent dominance against the Rangers, working seven innings, allowing two runs on four hits with a walk and six strikeouts to pick up his first win of the season.

But it could’ve been even more dominant. After holding the Rangers scoreless over the first six innings, including 16 straight hitters following a leadoff single from Brandon Nimmo to start the game, Woo allowed two runs in his final inning of work.

He issued a leadoff walk to Corey Seager, which included two pitches that probably could’ve been challenged. Wyatt Langford followed with a single to right field, giving the Rangers their first runner in scoring position on the day. Woo came back to strike out Jake Burger, but he hit Joc Pederson with a 1-1 fastball to load the bases.

Josh Jung drove in the Rangers’ first run with a sac fly to right field and Evan Carter followed with a double into the right-field corner to score Langford.

When Woo finally ended the inning, getting Josh Smith to ground out to second, he stalked off the mound and screamed his frustrations into his glove while the crowd of 35,474 gave him a standing ovation.

In his last five starts vs. the Rangers, Woo is 3-1 with a 1.15 ERA, having allowed four earned runs in 31 1/3 innings pitched along with 32 strikeouts and six walks.

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