SEATTLE – The formality of a planned news conference from the interview room of T-Mobile Park with a dais, microphones and Mariners’ logo backdrop was replaced by a wooden bench in the first-base dugout on a chilly Saturday afternoon before the penultimate game of the regular season with a handful of media members surrounding him.
SEATTLE – This much can be said about the Seattle Mariners as they play out the final series of the 2024 season – a three-game series with a team that is soon to be formerly known as the Oakland A’s – they are playing with the effort of a team still fighting to make the playoffs.
SEATTLE – A team that once led the division by 10 games and was eliminated from postseason consideration 24 hours earlier welcomed a team that had just said goodbye to its home of 59 seasons for the final three games without consequence to end the 2024 season.
SEATTLE – The impossible dream ended with the Seattle Mariners watching helplessly at home and hopelessly waiting for a miracle that was never realized.
HOUSTON – Jason Heyward delivered the most devastating of the Astros’ three homers off Logan Gilbert, helping Houston clinch the American League West crown with a 4-3 comeback victory over the Mariners on Tuesday night Minute Maid Park.
HOUSTON – The game on the line, the Mariners’ season most certainly on the line, Dan Wilson stretched his right leg onto the top step of the visitors’ dugout and leaned forward, eyeing his starting pitcher intently.
ARLINGTON, Texas – Most demoralizing loss of the season? The Mariners have had their share of those – it’s an agonizingly long list, to be sure – and Sunday’s 6-5 loss to the Texas Rangers has to rank right up there.
ARLINGTON, Texas – Deep into the left-field corner, Randy Arozarena chased down a Marcus Semien drive for an unlikely game-saving catch – nay, a season-saving catch – to strand the bases loaded in the sixth inning.
