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SEATTLE – Even before the Mariners earned what might have been their most important win of the year, Scott Servais received about as important of an answer as he could have wanted about the state of his team and how it would respond in the wake of the biggest crisis of the season.

SEATTLE – The lead in the American League West standings belongs to the team that has won the division six out of the past seven seasons.

SEATTLE – It’s hard to be diplomatic and direct all at once, yet somehow Cal Raleigh found a way.

For the first time since May 12, they no longer sit alone atop the American League West standings.

SEATTLE – Every wave has a crest, its highest point, where the only remaining direction is down.

SEATTLE – The Mariners need a bat. You know it. They know it. Everyone in baseball knows it.

ARLINGTON, Texas – The question gets posed to Texas Rangers All-Star second baseman Marcus Semien fairly regularly: Who, he’s asked, is the nastiest pitcher in the major leagues right now?

After months of work and weeks of preparations, the Mariners wrapped up the 2024 Major League Baseball amateur draft on Tuesday afternoon, making their final 10 selections of the 20-round affair.

Pittsburgh starting pitcher Paul Skenes throws in the first inning during the 94th MLB All-Star Game at Globe Life Field on Tuesday in Arlington, Texas.

Baseball, as a sport, needs Paul Skenes to pitch as much as possible. The Pittsburgh Pirates, as a franchise, need Paul Skenes’s right arm to stay intact as long as possible. Those two forces may compete for the remainder of the season and beyond, regardless of the milestones that could be afoot.

ARLINGTON, Texas – When Teoscar Hernández was with the Houston Astros as a rookie, he was a bottom-of-the-order role player. With the Toronto Blue Jays in his prime, Hernández was overshadowed by younger homegrown talent. In one year with the Seattle Mariners, he never fit in after a high-profile acquisition

ARLINGTON, Texas – Teoscar Hernandez was, in his words, happy playing for the Mariners last year.

SEATTLE – At first glance, that loss looked like a microcosm of all that has gone well and all that has gone poorly for the Mariners in the first half of the season.

Skylar Diggins-Smith took a hard fall in the second quarter after absorbing a charge from Atlanta Dream All-Star Allisha Gray, and while she got back on her feet, she soon went to the locker room under her own power and did not return due to an ankle injury.

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Since the early days of the season, when it became noticeable that they weren’t using the long-held number of 100 pitches as a pull or push decider for their starting pitchers, the Mariners have made it clear that it was part of their strategy to maintain the long-term health of their rotation – the obvious strength of the team.

ANAHEIM, Calif. – The Mariners couldn’t get off to a much better start on Saturday night.

In the days leading up to the 2021 MLB draft, Trent Blank was emphatic: The Mariners need to draft Bryan Woo.

Wrangling over stadium financing would continue on for years, but the dream of a new outdoor ballpark in Seattle finally felt real on March 8, 1997, when Ken Griffey Jr. flew in from spring training in Arizona and dug in for the first time at the site of the Mariners’ future home.

ANAHEIM, Calf. – For essentially six innings, the Mariners bullpen had done everything possible to give their teammates a chance pick up a second win in this four-game series.