Cole Young homers twice, George Kirby tosses 8 brilliant innings as Mariners top Angels

Adam Jude, The Seattle Times on Jun 30, 2026

Published in Baseball

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Not even Jo Adell in a cape could catch these.

Cole Young clobbered two home runs for the first multi-homer game of his career, Dom Canzone belted his 13th of the season in a rare left-on-left matchup, George Kirby was brilliant over eight innings and the Mariners opened a six-game homestand with a 6-2 victory over the Los Angeles Angels on Monday.

The last time these teams met, down in Anaheim, Calif., in early April, Adell robbed three home runs in a single game in the Angels’ 1-0 victory over the Mariners.

The Angels’ right fielder had no chance Monday.

Young’s first home run off Angels starter Ryan Johnson was a 412-foot blast over Adell’s head, a 104.6-mph rocket off the bat to cut the Mariners’ deficit to 2-1 in the third inning.

The Mariners broke it open in the sixth inning off Angels lefty reliever Mitch Farris.

Canzone turned on a fastball and launched it 428 feet out to right-center for his 13th home run of the season.

A left-handed slugger playing through a nagging right hamstring strain, Canzone hit his first 11 home runs this season off right-handed pitchers.

His last two have come against left-handed pitchers, a clear sign that the M’s designated hitter has moved beyond a strict left-vs.-right platoon. The most consistent power hitter on the team, Canzone has earned a full-time role, and his climb to the No. 3 spot in the lineup the past two games is another strong indicator of his value to an offense that has struggled the past two weeks.

Young added his second homer off Farris later in the sixth inning — another left-on-left blast — and it was one of the most impressive in the 22-year-old second baseman’s young career. This hit off the facing of the second deck in right field, a two-run homer measured at 406 feet with a 106.5 mph exit velocity.

Kirby matched his season high with eight strong innings pitched as the Mariners (43-43) climbed back to .500 after a closing out a dreadful trip Sunday in Cleveland.

Kirby allowed just two runs on seven hits, with one walk and seven strikeouts.

Kirby threw his fastest fastball in the eighth inning — 97.8 mph — to strike out Denzer Guzman looking at a perfectly placed 3-2 pitch.

The next batter, Nolan Schanuel, swung over a 2-2 knuckle curveball in the dirt to end the eighth inning and strand two Angels runners. As Cal Raleigh threw to first base to complete the 2-3 putout, Kirby streamed a profanity as he strutted off the mound, then was greeted by a standing ovation from the crowd of 37,100 at T-Mobile Park on his way back to the dugout.

Raleigh had given the M’s the lead in the fourth inning when he dumped a two-run single the other way, after Guzman’s error at third base extended the inning for the M’s with two outs.

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