Kyle Seager and Tom Murphy lit up Detroit in a blowout that turned into a party for the Mariners. Seager led off with a first-pitch homer off Tigers starter Matthew Boyd, setting the tone early. The Mariners greeted him with their usual dugout celebration, involving some chaotic running into a semicircle, which Seager admitted left him out of breath. Murphy followed up with a deep shot of his own, going back-to-back with Seager and breaking out a surprise cartwheel after rounding the bases. Seager joked about the lack of celebration for Murphy, but that didn’t last long.
In their next at-bats, both Seager and Murphy crushed Boyd again with nearly identical results — two more back-to-back homers. Boyd looked frustrated, and Seattle’s bench was all smiles. The Tigers, on the other hand, were a mess. Misplayed balls and a bruising collision at the wall summed up how things went for them. When Seager flew out in his third at-bat, it looked like a routine out, but Detroit botched it anyway, letting the ball drop and adding to the chaos. Murphy, on deck again, didn’t get another chance to homer — the Tigers wisely pitched around him and walked him instead.
The Mariners were clearly having fun with nothing on the line late in the season, while the Tigers looked lost. The dugout antics, the cartwheels, and the string of bombs off a struggling Boyd gave Seattle something to enjoy in a lopsided series between two teams going nowhere.