Series wins stop counting in late August; run differential and the games column start. Seattle took two of three from Chicago and then lost the finale 19–2, and sits 62–69 with 31 to play — three back of Houston and Texas in the West, three back of Cleveland for the last wild card. Six clubs are inside 3.5 games of that spot, which means the Mariners no longer control the arithmetic.
Significance first, numbers second—the quickest way into today’s Mariners story.
Seattle is 62–69 with 31 to play: three games behind Houston and Texas — both 65–66 — in the AL West, and three behind Cleveland for the final wild card. Five other clubs sit inside 3.5 games of the same spot (MLB, Baseball-Reference).
Chicago hit two grand slams Sunday — Ian Happ in the third, Pedro Ramírez in the eighth — only the third time a team has done that in a game since at least 1910. The series went to Seattle; the run differential went the other way (MLB).
His leadoff homer Sunday was his 20th of the year and made him the second player in major-league history with two leadoff homers and a walk-off inside a two-game span. Philadelphia comes to T-Mobile Park this week, then Toronto (MLB).
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