SAN DIEGO — The Mariners defeated the Padres by a 7–6 score in their final spring tune-up game before Opening Day at T-Mobile Park on Thursday, March 28 against the Boston Red Sox.
Julio Rodríguez finished off his spring with a bang, crushing a two-run homer down the left-field line in the bottom of the first that scored J.P. Crawford, who led off the game with a single. Dylan Moore followed suit in the second, homering to give the Mariners a 3–2 advantage after San Diego scored a pair in the first.