Cal Raleigh drove in the deciding run with a walk-off fielder’s choice in the 10th inning, securing a 3-2 victory for the Seattle Mariners over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night.

Raleigh hit a ground ball against Twins reliever Cole Sands (2-1). Sands opted to throw home in an attempt to prevent J.P. Crawford from scoring, but the throw was high, allowing Crawford to cross home plate safely.

This marked Raleigh’s fourth career walk-off and his second of the season.

“I swung at a bad pitch and got lucky, but that’s baseball sometimes,” Raleigh remarked. “You just have to make contact. Maybe not the ideal way to do it, but we’ll take it.”

The comeback concluded what initially was a battle between pitchers, with Minnesota’s Bailey Ober and Mariners starter Logan Gilbert impressing early on.

Ober faced the minimum number of batters before issuing two walks in the fourth inning, while Gilbert yielded only three hits through the first five innings.

Seattle took a 1-0 lead in the fifth thanks to Josh Rojas’ RBI double, but Carlos Correa’s two-run homer off Gilbert in the sixth put the Twins ahead.

Gilbert finished his outing with six innings pitched, allowing four hits and two earned runs while striking out three. Ober surrendered one run on two hits, striking out nine and walking three.

Correa’s home run ended Gilbert’s streak of 21 consecutive innings without allowing a run, the longest such streak by any Mariners pitcher this season. It was also Gilbert’s 14th quality start in 17 appearances, the best in the majors. In June, he recorded 31 strikeouts with just one walk in five starts.

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Astros look to resume climb against hot Mets

The only team that could slow the Houston Astros on Friday night is the only team in baseball enjoying a hotter June. The Astros will look to climb back to .500, and the New York Mets will aim to extend their red-hot run Saturday afternoon, when the teams meet in New York in the middle game of a three-game series. Left-hander Framber Valdez (6-5, 3.68 ERA) is slated to start for the Astros against right-hander Tylor Megill (2-4, 4.81). The Mets moved over .500 for the first time in almost two months Friday night when Tyrone Taylor, Pete Alonso and Jeff McNeil all homered in a 7-2 victory over Houston. The loss ended a seven-game winning streak for the Astros (40-41), who were trying to move over .500 for the first time this year.

Houston, which has made seven straight American League Championship Series appearances, was as many as 12 games under .500 twice this seaason but leads the American League with a 15-8 record this month. The Astros averaged 6.9 runs per game during their winning streak but struggled with runners in scoring position Friday, when they collected 12 hits against five Mets

pitchers and stranded a season-high 14 runners. Starting pitcher Ronel Blanco, who entered Friday with the fifth-best ERA in the AL at 2.34, gave up six runs over 5 2/3 innings. Just three were earned due to a sixth-inning error by third baseman Alex Bregman, who muffed a potential inning-ending grounder by Mark Vientos with the Mets up 3-2.