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Rodríguez

The 25-year-old outfielder singled to open the sixth inning and scored the go-ahead run on Josh Naylor’s RBI double. He then worked a one-out walk in the seventh, swiped second and third base before scoring on an RBI single off the bat of Randy Arozarena. Rodríguez appears to be heating up a bit earlier than usual this season, slashing .258/.316/.457 to go along with 13 homers, 32 RBI and nine stolen bases in 291 plate appearances.

Rodríguez brought a run in to score on a sacrifice fly in the fourth inning, then took Cionel Pérez deep for a solo homer to lead off the sixth. He’s coming off a strong May, hitting 274 with ten homers. The home run on Tuesday was his fifth in nine games. The 25-year-old star outfielder is up to 13 this season while slashing .259/.313/.466 with 33 runs scored, 32 RBI, and five steals across 272 plate appearances.

Rodríguez has homered in three straight games and has 10 homers in May, which is a new high for him in a month. As slow of a starter as he’s been previously, it would seem to bode well for him that he’s already up to .269/.326/.475 for the year. He has finishes of fourth, sixth and seventh place in the AL MVP balloting in his five years in the league. Maybe this will be the year that he challenges for first place.

It’s the 11th homer of the season for Rodríguez, and the ninth that the 25-year-old slugger has hit in the month of May. A notoriously slow starter, Rodríguez is now slashing .263/.323/.357 over the first two months of the season. One can’t help but wonder how much these numbers will (likely) improve over the summer.

Rodríguez worked a full count and then lashed his eighth homer of the season to right-center off Noah Schultz. The 25-year-old’s .251/.318/.421 slash is certainly not what fantasy managers are hoping for come the final weeks of the year, but consider how poorly he’s started in previous seasons, managers should be thrilled that he’s already driving the ball in the early-ish portion of 2026.

Rodríguez was off to another one of his patented slow starts, but he might be getting it together a little earlier than usual this year. He already hit .350 over the final nine games of April, raising his OPS from .592 to .678, and now he’s up to .733 after his eighth career two-homer game. That’s a nice improvement on his .638 OPS as of May 1, 2024 or his .681 mark on this date last year.

Both RBI came in the ninth inning when Rodríguez cemented the blowout with his third double in the ninth to give Seattle a 7-1 lead. The 25-year-old has doubled six times in 2026, while the pair of runs driven in brings that total up to 12 across 30 games.

Rodríguez blistered a two-run shot off Matthew Liberatore into Big Mac land in the first inning. That’s just the second homer of the season, and the steal was his third. Rodríguez is a notoriously slow starter — as notorious as a 25-year-old can be, anyway — but the three-hit night improves his slash to .250/.336/.333 over 28 games.

Rodríguez drove in a run with a bases-loaded walk in the third inning. His steal is the first of the season, and assuredly not the last after forging a 30/30 season in 2025. He’s started to pick things up, and fantasy managers should do anything but panic about his .194/.286/.258 slash.

Not only did Rodríguez get his first homer of the season with a 426-foot tank to center, it was a big one as it tied the game at 7-7. He also doubled for his first multi extra-base hit game of the season. Rodríguez has been a notorious — maybe the most notorious — slow starter in baseball, but there’s simply no denying that he’s among the best talented players regardless of position. Cal Raleigh also homered, and it appears the big boys for Seattle are starting to pick it up.