Astros punch back, beat Seattle 11-3 in series finale

What was billed as the pitcher’s duel of the series certainly began that way. All-Star fastballers Hunter Brown and Bryan Woo cruised through the first two innings, with an unconvincing single in each half-inning the only hiccups. But the Mariners offense interrupted that narrative in the third and fourth, stringing together baserunners and eating up Brown’s pitch count. A big hit from Jorge Polanco in the third and one from Julio Rodríguez in the fourth staked Seattle to a three-run lead and had all of Mariners fandom feeling like this:

Bryan Woo turning in a five-pitch, three-easy-groundball inning between the outbursts only added to the feeling that the Mariners might just pull off a sweep of the Astros and pull within two games in the AL West.