Rodríguez and Emerson hit HRs, Woo pitches 7 scoreless innings as Mariners beat Tigers 4-2

SEATTLE (AP) — Julio Rodríguez and Colt Emerson hit home runs, Bryan Woo pitched seven scoreless innings and the Seattle Mariners beat the Detroit Tigers 4-2 on Wednesday night.

Woo (8-8) allowed three hits, walked one and had five strikeouts. Over his last seven home starts dating to May 6, Woo is 6-0 with just four earned runs in 45 1/3 innings.

Andrés Muñoz pitched a 1-2-3 ninth, striking out two to earn his 20th save this season.

Rodríguez went 2 for 3 with a walk. Brenan Hanifee replaced Tyler Holton with two outs in the seventh, Randy Arozarena doubled and Dominic Canzone was intentionally walked. Rodríguez hit the next pitch, a 97.3 mph sinker, 366 feet over the wall in right field to give the Mariners a 3-0 lead.

Hanifee (0-1) did not record an out.

Woo hit three batters before Enmanuel De Jesus plunked Cal Raleigh in the bottom of the seventh. Gabe Speier relieved Woo to begin the eighth, struck out Hao-Yu Lee and got Kevin McGonigle to fly out, then hit Gleyber Torres with a 96.3 mph fastball and the benches cleared. Speier and Mariners manager Dan Wilson were ejected.

Eduard Bazardo replaced Speier and Dillon Dingler followed with a 424-foot shot to center that made it 3-2. Dingler also homered in Detroit’s 8-0 win over the Mariners on Tuesday.

Emerson capped the scoring with a solo shot in the eighth.

Josh Naylor went 0 for 3 and had reached base safely in 25 consecutive games, the longest active on-base streak in the majors.

Detroit opener Drew Anderson allowed three hits in 3 1/3 innings.

Tigers LHP Framber Valdez (6-7, 4.41 ERA) starts Thursday opposite RHP Bryce Miller (4-5, 2.80) to conclude the three-game series.

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Detroit Tigers' Gleyber Torres is hit by a pitch in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Kevin Ng)

First base umpire Mark Wegner ejects Seattle Mariners manager Dan Wilson in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Kevin Ng)

Detroit Tigers' Gleyber Torres (25) exchanges words with Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh (29) after being hit by a pitch in the eighth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Kevin Ng)

Seattle Mariners' Julio Rodríguez celebrates in the dugout after hitting a three-run home run in the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Kevin Ng)

Seattle Mariners pitcher Bryan Woo (22) reacts after the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Detroit Tigers, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Kevin Ng)

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market steadied itself Thursday after absorbing big swings for Nvidia’s stock and oil prices. The moves suggested Wall Street sees limited fallout for the artificial intelligence industry, which carries immense influence on the market, despite the sudden fall of one of its biggest evangelists.

After dropping nearly 1% at the start of trading, the S&P 500 erased all of the loss and then drifted between small gains and losses before dipping 0.3%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 88 points, or 0.2%, with an hour remaining in trading, while the Nasdaq composite was down 0.5% after trimming an early drop of 1.6%.

At the center of the swings was Nvidia's stock. It plunged 14% at the start of trading following the resignation of Jensen Huang, its CEO, co-founder and face of the brand. The chip company’s stock has been sinking since its board announced an investigation into Huang for a relationship with a woman suspected of being a Chinese government agent.

It’s a stunning fall for Huang and for Nvidia, which had become Wall Street’s most valuable and influential stock because of its central role in the AI boom. Its stock price set a record last month after soaring an astounding 1,722% in four years. That compares with the already healthy gain of nearly 109% for the overall S&P 500 over the same time.

But Nvidia’s price dropped 27% from then through Wednesday on worries about whether Huang would remain as CEO and how Nvidia would navigate a future without him. Nvidia’s board answered the first question Thursday morning, when it said Huang resigned, and it named Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress as its interim CEO.

The second question remains unanswered. And it looms over the entire market because Nvidia and the broader AI industry have been the main reasons the U.S. stock market has set so many records in recent years.

Nvidia, to be sure, is still selling AI chips at a quick rate regardless of who stands on a stage and talks them up, and analysts said it remains the industry's leader. That helped Nvidia quickly halve its early loss Thursday, and its stock was most recently down 5.4%. That paring helped the broader market to recover.

Outside of Nvidia, stocks across the AI industry swung in the uncertainty.

CoreWeave, which buys Nvidia chips and then rents out access to them to customers over the cloud, fell 8.2%. Micron Technology, which sells memory for computers that’s been getting gobbled up in the AI frenzy, sank 2.1%.

But Broadcom rose 5.2%, and Advanced Micro Devices added 5.9% on hopes the rival chip companies will gain a competitive advantage. Those two gains came close to offsetting the drop for Nvidia, which was the single heaviest weight on the S&P 500. That suggests investors see the AI business expanding to other players rather than depending solely on Nvidia.

Demonstrating how much uncertainty was washing through the market was GE Vernova, which is helping to power AI data centers. It flipped from an early loss of 3% to a gain of 1.7%.

Also helping to limit the U.S. market's losses were gains for stocks in the oil and gas industry. Marathon Petroleum climbed 3.2%, and Exxon Mobil added 2.3%.

They benefited from a rise in oil prices after President Donald Trump said he’s no longer interested in a deal with Iran to end their war. Instead of that, Trump said he asked his vice president to investigate U.S. cities and states run by Democrats.

“We don’t need a deal with Iran,” Trump said. “Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars, and we’ve got their Strait!”

The price for a barrel of Brent crude climbed 3.3% to $95.82. The price for the most actively traded contract in the Brent market has been veering sharply since the United States and Israel began the war with Iran in late February, bouncing between roughly $70 and $120.

Higher oil prices push up worries about inflation, and the yield on the 10-year Treasury climbed to 5.10% from 4.98% late Tuesday. Trading in the bond market had been closed Wednesday for Veterans Day.

Higher yields make borrowing money more expensive for everyone, from the U.S. government to companies building AI data centers to regular people buying houses. High mortgage rates helped send sales of previously occupied U.S. homes in October to their slowest pace in more than 16 years.

The housing industry has been slowing the U.S. economy but not upending it. A separate report on Thursday said that slightly more U.S. workers applied for unemployment benefits last week, but the number remains relatively low compared with history.

In stock markets abroad, indexes were mixed in Europe following a weaker finish in Asia.

Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fell 1.3% for one of the world’s biggest moves.

AP Business Writer Yuri Kageyama contributed to this report.

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This story has been corrected to show the highest price for the most actively traded contract in the Brent oil market since the war with Iran was nearly $120 per barrel.

A screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange displays news about Nvidia's stock price in New York, Monday, Nov. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

A person looks at an electronic display board showing Japan's Nikkei index at a securities firm, Monday, Nov. 9, 2026, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

A person walks below a huge screen, displaying the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

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