Mariners second baseman Robinson Canó was slumping when he met his former team, the New York Yankees, on July 18. His first half had been decidedly “Un-Canó-like,” and Yankees fans greeted him with a shower of boos. But he quieted the critics with a pair of two-run home runs that helped the Mariners end a seven-game skid against the Yankees. It was Canó’s 14th multi-homer game, and the first not in pinstripes, and it helped Hisashi Iwakuma post a 4-3 win over New York.
Canó came up big again a month later, this time in Boston, where he contributed five hits and three RBI in a wild 10-8 win over the Red Sox.