Julio Rodriguez apologized to Dan Wilson for his mistake, the Mariners manager said Thursday. “I really respect him for that, and we had a good conversation.”

Aaron Judge drove in four runs in his first two at-bats, Juan Soto hit his 40th homer of the season and 200th of his career, and the New York Yankees moved to the cusp of clinching a playoff berth with an 11-2 win over the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night.

Aaron Judge and Cal Raleigh are among the players with prop bets for the taking when the New York Yankees and the Seattle Mariners square off at T-Mobile Park on Thursday (at 4:10 p.m. ET).The

The Mariners' Julio Rodriguez has a slash line of .266/.322/.389, with 16 homers and 54 RBI, plus 22 steals on 27 attempts. He has 65 runs scored, a strikeout rate of 25.7%, and a walk rate of 6.7%.

The rightfielder slammed hard into the wall in foul territory pursuing a fly ball, but after several tense minutes stayed in the game.

Yankees outfielder Juan Soto will get X-rays "just to make sure" after he banged his knee into the wall "pretty good" while making a sliding catch vs. the Mariners.

Two days after speaking openly about his upcoming free agent bonanza, New York Yankees star right fielder Juan Soto found himself on the ground at T-Mobile Park on Thursday, having smashed his knee left on the wall while making a sliding catch.