Bryan Woo dazzles, Mariners club 4 homers to beat Diamondbacks

Good, clean, fun baseball.

Yes, we're talking about the 2026 Seattle Mariners.

Bryan Woo remained unbeaten - and nearly untouchable - in another stellar start at home, Julio Rodríguez and Luke Raley continued to clobber baseballs, and the Mariners won their fifth straight game with a 5-1 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday night before a crowd of 44,364 at T-Mobile Park.

Dom Canzone and rookie Colt Emerson also homered to help build an early 4-0 lead, and a seesaw start to the season has morphed into a buzzsaw for the Mariners (30-29), who surged above .500 for the first time since they were 3-2 on March 30, exactly two months ago.

It feels like things are clicking and finally going our way," Rodríguez said.

A week ago in Kansas City, the Mariners were plodding through another series loss, one unseemly game after the next, looking unrecognizable from the team that played deep into October last fall.

Here they are a week later, holding steady in first place atop the AL West and finally looking like a club that has rediscovered its identity and its swagger.

"When you're scuffling and not playing up to your standards, you look a bunch of different ways of what do we need to change and what do we need to do," Woo said. "Sometimes when you have as good a team as we do, sometimes it's just taking a step back and trying to just relax and your game come out on its own."

The feel-good vibes continued when star catcher Cal Raleigh made a surprise appearance in the dugout before the start of the sixth inning.

Raleigh, who has been rehabbing an oblique injury at the team's facility in Arizona, was greeted with hugs from teammates and coaches. The club has not put a timeline on Raleigh's return, but he's expected to remain on the injured list for about two more weeks.

"He caused quite a stir in the dugout when he showed up," Mariners manager Dan Wilson said. "Great to see him; great to have him back here. He still has a little ways to go (in rehab), of course, but having him sort of back in the fold, back in the family feels really good."

Woo said he felt like he had "everything" working Saturday night from the get-go. He wanted to be on the attack early, to set a quick tempo, and the result was one of the best starts of his career.

In his sixth home start of the season, Woo allowed just two hits with no walks and nine strikeouts over seven scoreless innings.

He's 4-0 with 2.37 ERA at T-Mobile Park this season, having allowed just 10 runs on 21 hits in 38 innings, with a 43-to-6 strikeout-to-walk ratio.

"He's a special pitcher," Wilson said.

Woo retired the first 13 batters of the game before Adrian Del Castillo singled with one out in the fifth inning. Ildemaro Vargas singled two batters later, but Woo struck out Jose Fernandez to end the inning.

Woo then retired the side in order in the sixth and seventh innings, getting three straight weak ground balls to wrap up one of the best nights of his career.

This was the fifth time in his career he's thrown seven scoreless innings. He allowed one hit over seven scoreless at the Angels on April 3.

Raley continued his torrid May with his team-leading 13th homer out to right field in the second inning off Arizona starter Ryne Nelson. It was his eighth of the month; he also homered in the Mariners' 7-6 walkoff win Friday night.

Canzone followed with his sixth homer of the season in the second inning to make it 2-0.

In the third, Emerson turned on a fastball and sent it 365 feet out to right field for his second big-league homer in this 12th game with the Mariners.

Emerson knew it was gone right away and he celebrated with a little bat flip as he turned toward the home dugout.

Two batters later, Rodríguez hit his 10th homer of the month, third in three days and 12th of the season.

It was a majestic blast to straightaway center field, 107.9 mph off the bat and 418 feet out, to continue the best start to any season of his career.

"Man, I'm just swinging. I'm just swinging the bat and feeling well at the plate," he said.

Rodríguez, everyone knows, has traditionally been a second-half slugger through the first four seasons of his career. For him to be this hot this early in the season?

"It's so much fun," Woo said. "The energy that he brings is very contagious every day. He's a fan favorite, so he gets the crowd going. It's a ton of fun. But to see him going, especially early in the year, like this and getting his feet under him a little bit earlier, the sky's the limit for what he can do.

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This story was originally published May 30, 2026 at 11:38 PM.