HOUSTON (AP) — Eugenio Suárez hit his 47th homer, three other Mariners went deep and Bryan Woo pitched five effective innings before leaving unexpectedly as Seattle beat the Houston Astros 4-0 on Friday night to take over first place in the AL West.
The surging Mariners (85-69) have won 11 of 12 to wrest control of the division away from the Astros with eight games remaining. The teams play twice more this weekend before Seattle closes the season by hosting Colorado and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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Seattle Mariners third baseman Eugenio Suárez (28) throws out Houston Astros' Jake Meyers on a ground ball during the third inning of a baseball game Friday, Sept. 19, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Kevin M. Cox)
Seattle Mariners pitcher Bryan Woo (22) pitches during the first inning of a baseball game against the Houston Astros, Friday, Sept. 19, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Kevin M. Cox)
Seattle Mariners' Julio Rodríguez celebrates after a solo home run by teammate Josh Naylor during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Houston Astros, Friday, Sept. 19, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Kevin M. Cox)
Seattle Mariners' Eugenio Suárez runs the bases after hitting a solo home run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Houston Astros, Friday, Sept. 19, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Kevin M. Cox)
The Astros fell into a tie with Boston for the final two American League wild-card spots, with Cleveland 1 1/2 games behind.
Woo (15-7) yielded one hit and one walk and struck out seven, but the All-Star right-hander departed after a couple of warmup tosses in the sixth, having thrown just 67 pitches. It was Woo’s ninth straight outing surrendering three runs or fewer, and he lowered his ERA to 2.94. He has 198 strikeouts this season.
Julio Rodriguez homered in the first inning for the Mariners. Suárez's 425-foot drive off the train tracks above the Crawford Boxes in left field in the fourth made it 2-0.
Victor Robles led off the seventh with a homer, and Josh Naylor connected in the eighth.
Hunter Brown (12-8) allowed two runs and struck out nine in six innings. Brown has 201 strikeouts this season.
With runners on first and second and one out in the fourth, Woo struck out Jose Altuve and Zach Cole to quell Houston’s lone threat.
Seattle leads the season series 6-5.
Houston LHP Framber Valdez (12-10, 3.59 ERA) opposes Seattle RHP George Kirby (9-7, 4.46) on Saturday night.
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Seattle Mariners third baseman Eugenio Suárez (28) throws out Houston Astros' Jake Meyers on a ground ball during the third inning of a baseball game Friday, Sept. 19, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Kevin M. Cox)
Seattle Mariners pitcher Bryan Woo (22) pitches during the first inning of a baseball game against the Houston Astros, Friday, Sept. 19, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Kevin M. Cox)
Seattle Mariners' Julio Rodríguez celebrates after a solo home run by teammate Josh Naylor during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Houston Astros, Friday, Sept. 19, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Kevin M. Cox)
Seattle Mariners' Eugenio Suárez runs the bases after hitting a solo home run during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Houston Astros, Friday, Sept. 19, 2025, in Houston. (AP Photo/Kevin M. Cox)
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump issued a flurry of pardons in recent days, including for the father of a large donor to his super PAC, a former governor of Puerto Rico and a woman whose sentence he commuted during his first term but who ended up back in prison for a different scheme.
Trump commuted the sentence of Adriana Camberos just before his first stint in the White House ended in 2021. That followed her being convicted as part of an effort to divert 5-Hour Energy drink bottles acquired for resale in Mexico and instead keep them in the U.S. Prosecutors said she and several co-conspirators attached counterfeit labels and filled the bottles with a phony liquid before selling them.
In 2024, she and her brother, Andres, were convicted in a separate case, this one involving lying to manufacturers to sell wholesale groceries and additional items at big discounts after pledging that they were meant for sale in Mexico or to prisoners or rehabilitation facilities. The siblings sold the products at higher prices to U.S. distributors, prosecutors said.
The Camberoses were among 13 pardons Trump issued Thursday, along with eight commutations. An additional pardon was announced Friday for Terren Peizer, a resident of Puerto Rico and California who headed the Miami-based health care company Ontrak.
Peizer had been convicted and sentenced to 42 months in prison, and fined $5.25 million, for engaging in an insider trading scheme to avoid losses exceeding $12.5 million, according to the Justice Department.
The president has issued a number of clemencies during the first year of his second term, many targeted at criminal cases once touted by federal prosecutors. They’ve come amid a continuing Trump administration effort to erode public integrity guardrails — including the firing of the Justice Department’s pardon attorney.
Also pardoned this week was former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez, who had pleaded guilty last August to a campaign finance violation in a federal case that authorities say also involved a former FBI agent and a Venezuelan banker. Her sentencing had been set for later this month.
Federal prosecutors had been seeking one year behind bars, something Vázquez’s attorneys opposed as they accused prosecutors of violating a guilty plea deal reached last year that saw previous charges including bribery and fraud dropped.
They had noted that Vázquez had agreed to plead guilty to accepting a promise of a campaign contribution that was never received.
Also involved in the case was banker Julio Herrera Velutini, whose daughter, Isabela Herrera, donated $2.5 million to Trump's MAGA Inc. super PAC in 2024, and gave the group an additional $1 million last summer. The case's third defendant was former FBI agent Mark Rossini, who was also pardoned by the president.
The recent wave of clemencies joins previous Trump pardons of Democratic former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Republican ex-Connecticut Gov. John Rowland, whose promising political career was upended by a corruption scandal and two federal prison stints.
Trump also pardoned former U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, a New York Republican who resigned from Congress after a tax fraud conviction and made headlines for threatening to throw a reporter off a Capitol balcony over a question he didn’t like. Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, who had been convicted of cheating banks and evading taxes, also got Trump pardons.
The president also pardoned Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar in a bribery and conspiracy case. He later expressed regret and frustration for having done so, however, when Cuellar announced he was seeking reelection without switching parties to become a Republican.
President Donald Trump points after arriving at Palm Beach International Airport on Air Force One, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
