Seattle Mariners at Baltimore Orioles

The Mariners took two Orioles runs off the board on Monday night in a game that proved to be more decided by inches than the final score would suggest. And both runs they yanked back in a 6-3 win came via challenges that overturned their initial calls. “That was sick,” said Josh Naylor, who ensured that Seattle had the wiggle room to work around the close calls with a decisive grand slam during the fifth inning. It wasn’t just that the Mariners were successful with both challenges in question -- rather, that they were each extremely borderline calls, in high-leverage spots and necessitated a quick trigger. Backup catcher Jhonny Pereda executed maybe the most monumental ABS challenge of Seattle’s season when overturning a full-count, bases-loaded walk to Pete Alonso that instead yielded a called strikeout for the second out in a dicey seventh inning. Matt Brash, who was on the mound with his shakiest command of the season, then settled back in and generated a groundout to Colton Cowser to get out of the crisis-brewing jam altogether. Then in the eighth and with another threat looming, Mariners manager Dan Wilson and video and replay operations coordinator Jake Kuruc initiated a traditional challenge that eliminated a scoring tag up from Jackson Holliday to the plate. On that one, Julio Rodríguez ignited an 8-4 double play with Ryan Bliss with a 96.2 mph heave to the second baseman that nabbed speedster Blaze Alexander, who was also attempting to tag up. Home-plate umpire Gabe Morales initially ruled that Holliday had crossed the plate just before the out at second, but a lengthy review from MLB’s headquarters in New York overturned the call. “It's one of those things -- the umpire makes the call, and it's worth checking,” Wilson said. “You've got to try to check it. He's seeing it live, and it was pretty bang-bang. But Jake was all over it. And that's a huge turnaround right there. It's a huge lift.” Rodríguez has always had the big arm, but Monday’s throw had even more mustard on it. It was tied for the Mariners’ fifth-hardest outfield assist since Statcast began tracking the metric in 2015. He corralled the liner 381 feet from home plate, just in front of the warning track and delivered a no-hop dime to Bliss, who made more of a blind tag than it appeared. **“**I knew I was in the vicinity of the bag, and I knew \[Alexander\