Pinch hitter Luke Raley hit a tiebreaking home run and Cole Young added a two-run shot as the Seattle Mariners got back to the .500 mark with a 6-3 victory against the visiting San Francisco Giants on Sunday afternoon.

Right-hander Logan Gilbert (8-6) pitched six quality innings for the Mariners, who took two of three games in the interleague series coming out of the All-Star break.

Gilbert allowed three runs on four hits, walked just one and struck out 10.

Eduard Bazardo, Gabe Speier and Andres Munoz combined for three scoreless innings of one-hit relief, with six strikeouts. Munoz worked the ninth for his 17th save of the season.

With the score tied at 3, Raley hit a blast to right-center off Giants reliever Adrian Houser (2-7) with one out in the bottom of the sixth.

Julio Rodriguez led off the seventh by grounding a single to left and Young took Houser deep to right for the final margin.

The Giants got on the scoreboard in the first inning. With one out, Eldridge went deep to right-center. Casey Schmitt grounded a single to left, stole second, and scored on Heliot Ramos’ two-out single to right to make it 2-0.

The Mariners tied it in the fourth with a pair of unearned runs off Robbie Ray. Randy Arozarena reached on third baseman Schmitt’s two-base throwing error and took third when Cal Raleigh filed out to the warning track in right-center. Josh Naylor grounded a run-scoring single to left and stole second. With two outs, Weston Wilson grounded an RBI single to center. A single by Colt Emerson and a walk to J.P. Crawford loaded the bases before Ray got out of the jam by getting Rodriguez to fly out to right.

The Giants regained the lead in the fifth after Willy Adames drew a leadoff walk and advanced to second on Grant McCray’s sacrifice bunt. With two outs, Luis Arraez – who had struck out twice, the first time that’s happened in a game this season – slapped a double down the left-field line to make it 3-2.

The Mariners tied it in the bottom of the inning, knocking out Ray in the process. Young and Arozarena led off with singles to right, with Young taking third on the latter. Reliever Sam Hentges replaced Ray and got Raleigh to ground into a double play, with Young scoring on the play.

Ray, who pitched for the Mariners in 2022-23, went four-plus innings and gave up three runs (one earned) on seven hits. The lefty walked two and fanned six.

–Field Level Media

Rookie Ryan Johnson allowed one run on two hits over five innings and Oswald Peraza went 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored as the Los Angeles Angels salvaged the final game of a three-game series with the Detroit Tigers with a 3-2 victory on Sunday afternoon in Anaheim, Calif.

Nolan Schanuel had three hits, and Vaughn Grissom had two hits, including a double and a run scored, helping Los Angeles snap a four-game losing streak.

Johnson (2-4) walked three and struck out five. Ryan Zeferjahn picked up the save.

Kevin McGonigle and Riley Greene each hit home runs for Detroit, which suffered just its fourth loss in the last 15 games.

Drew Anderson (3-4) suffered the loss, allowing one run on one hit and three walks in 1 1/3 innings. Anderson took over for starter Casey Mize, who left with one out in the fourth after throwing out Jo Adell on a 109 mph comebacker that hit him on the edge of his glove and left wrist.

Detroit jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning when McGonigle led off with his ninth home run, a 402-foot drive to left-center. It was the third leadoff homer of the season for McGonigle.

Los Angeles tied it at 1 in the second when Grisson led off with a double down the left field line, moved to third on a sacrifice bunt by Josh Lowe and scored one out later on an infield single by Peraza.

The Angels capitalized on Anderson’s wildness to take a 2-1 lead in the fifth. Zach Neto and Mike Trout opened the inning with back-to-back walks and Schanuel then singled to load the bases. Jorge Soler then drove in Neto with a groundout to short.

Los Angeles increased its lead to 3-1 in the sixth inning when Peraza led off with a single, stole second, advanced to third on a groundout and scored on a single by Neto.

Greene led off the ninth with his 14th home run to make it 3-2, his 10th homer since June 1, but Zeferjahn bounced back to retire the next three batters for his third save.

–Field Level Media

The Toronto Tempo will be without their head coach as they try to snap out of a funk Monday at home against the Las Vegas Aces.

Sandy Brondello will serve a one-game suspension without pay for what the league deemed was an inappropriate comment she made about Atlanta star Angel Reese during Friday’s game. Associate head coach Olaf Lange will handle head-coaching duties against the Aces.

Brondello apologized on social media and Reese accepted the apology for the incident, which stemmed from Brondello calling Reese a “protected species” after a foul call. Brondello admitted the remark had an unintended racial connotation, which differs from how the term is used in her native Australia.

Toronto (10-15) has had trouble on the court as well, losing six of the last seven games and falling 2 1/2 games behind the playoff hunt. On Friday, the Tempo fell 111-92 at home to Atlanta after trailing by just a point at halftime.

“I think we were still in the locker room at the start of the third (quarter),” Brondello said. “We were just not very locked in and very intentional.

“They got some easy baskets, and then we lose our focus a little bit, so that’s the disappointing part.”

Marina Mabrey scored 26 points, including a trio of 3-pointers, while reserve Nyara Sabally added 16 points. Sabally sustained a minor rib injury in the process and was limited to just 21 minutes. She was ruled out Sunday for Monday’s contest.

Meanwhile, the Aces (17-7) have had plenty of time to dwell on their polarizing last two performances.

After beating Phoenix 106-58 on July 11, the Aces experienced an 82-point swing, losing 109-75 to Indiana the following day. They shot 50.6% and tallied five players in double-figure scoring against the Mercury, only to tumble to 39.1% and just two double-digit scorers at home against the Fever.

Las Vegas was paced by A’ja Wilson’s 20 points and 12 rebounds in the loss to Indiana. Fellow All-Star Jackie Young added 15 points, but that was about all of the good news for the Aces, now two games off the pace for the WNBA lead behind Minnesota and second-place Golden State. The Aces have dropped two of their last four games and are 5-3 since their 12-4 start.

“I thought we were lousy from the jump,” said Aces coach Becky Hammon after the loss. “A lot of it is effort and maybe we just didn’t have the juice today.”

The Aces had played three games in four days, and Hammon conceded, “Every team has a rough patch in the schedule where it’s just difficult.” A seven-day stretch with no games could help make that challenge a bit easier for the Aces.

–Field Level Media