The Detroit Tigers went to town on the Mariners bullpen on Wednesday afternoon, forcing a winner-take-all ALDS Game 5 in Seattle. Can the M’s defeat the best pitcher in the AL and punch their ticket to the ALCS?

It wasn’t a pitching duel like Games 1 and 2, but things fell into place for the Mariners in Game 3 while Tigers manager A. J. Hinch’s best laid plans went awry.

Like almost everything involving the 2025 Mariners, it went down to the wire. Yet due to the success of some of their greatest heroes—and despite the errors of another—the M’s pulled through on Sunday night.

As morning dawns on the Mariners’ mistakes from Saturday night, some final things can be gleaned before the team gears up to face Tarik Skubal in Game 2. What might be on Seattle’s mind headed into Sunday?

The M’s dropped a very winnable ALDS Game 1 on Saturday night, giving the team an uphill climb as they face the best pitcher in the AL in a must-win Game 2. What were the five key moments that produced Seattle’s defeat?

The Mariners and Tigers opened their ALDS matchup with a battle of the bullpen, but Detroit was the last one standing, completing a dominant effort from its relievers to steal Game 1 of the series.

There may not have been any real consequence to the Seattle Mariners’ Wednesday scrimmage at T-Mobile Park, but the five innings of action still gave some insights into what’s going on in the Mariners clubhouse as the ALDS approaches.

A little too much went wrong against the defending champions on Saturday, and the Mariners are on the verge of being swept in their final (although mostly meaningless) series of the year. What kept the team out of the win column on the penultimate day of the season?

For the second time in four years, the Seattle Mariners are going to the postseason, taking a comeback win to clinch their berth. And who else but one of their newest yet most beloved heroes to do the final honors?

Saturday’s marathon match between the Seattle Mariners and Houston Astros was an instant classic in the heated AL West rivalry—and it was made so by two moments that baseball will not soon forget.

The Seattle Mariners may have finally slain their unrelenting demons on Saturday night in Houston. Cal Raleigh got his 57th home run, George Kirby balled out on the mound, but it was the last play of the game that will go down in Mariners legend.

Bryan Woo may have worked a shutdown five innings on Friday, but discomfort forced the M’s to pull him early. Luckily for Seattle, the men they rely on time and time again came through, but there is still a cloud hanging over the team pending Woo’s MRI.

Some things, like the elite pitching duel, can be gleaned from Thursday’s box score, but the game also contained a bafflingly odd sequence that reminds us of baseball’s oddities as the M’s moved back into first place in the West.

The Mariners have a rest day Monday, but their previous nine games—including two sweeps at home—produced some stark numbers that help explain Seattle’s recent winning streak and climb to the top of the AL West.

The Seattle Mariners had big contributions from both ends of the starting battery on Friday night as they took game two of four from the visiting Halos. Though the bats were once again silent for much of the night, the M’s found a way to win once more.

The Seattle Mariners had their second extra-inning slog in as many days, and once more, the bullpen put together a Herculean effort while the offense had more than its fair share of struggles. But baseball—especially in September—is akin to magic and fantasy, and Thursday’s game had a fairy-tale ending.

It was the fourth victory in a row for the Seattle Mariners, and the AL West division chase is coming down to the wire. This win came despite some continued (albeit muted) struggles from George Kirby—what did the Mariners do to overcome the Cardinals in game two?

It wasn’t as enormous as their duo of destructions in Atlanta, but the Mariners got the job done at home against the Cardinals on Monday—and there were some key moments that got the Mariners over the hump.

The Seattle Mariners lost an extremely winnable game on Friday to a struggling Cleveland Guardians squad who were previously on the edge of falling off the playoff field entirely, and the disastrous bottom of the ninth revealed the team’s biggest Achilles’ heel once again.

Victor Robles returned to the Seattle Mariners on Saturday night and was at the center of the action for much of the game, but one moment in the bottom of the 10th stood out in the Mariners’ disappointing 2-1 extra-inning loss.