The surreal has become real with one week left in the season, as the Seattle Mariners have swept the Houston Astros in the biggest series of the season. What led to Seattle’s sweep-clinching Sunday victory?

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.

Seattle’s vaunted 10-game winning streak has come to a close, with Mariners both present and former playing key roles in the Wednesday drama. What happened to stymie Seattle’s fortunes in game two?

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.

The Mariners won their fifth straight game on Wednesday, and it was a brutal battle that saw one aspect of their game pushed to their absolute limit while the team dragged its feet on the other side of the ball. How did they pull it off in extras to topple the Cardinals?

The Seattle Mariners dropped the 15th game of their last 21 contests on Friday, as their road problems continued and their third wild card spot became ever more precarious. What was going wrong this time, and what is the way forward?

With all the struggles the Mariners have been facing on the road these last few games, there’s one thing that above all else is giving the boys from the Northwest slim chances to win - and it’s something the team usually relies on.

Defensive miscues once again set the Mariners back in Baltimore, and even after a late comeback effort following a long rain delay, the hole had been dug too deep to make it all the way back for a victory, leading to a series defeat against the last place Orioles.

Don’t look now, but the Mariners have won five straight. The magic continued on Saturday behind the bat of Cal Raleigh, whose three-run blast turned what would have been a shutout loss into a thrilling comeback victory on the first night of Ichiro weekend.

The Seattle Mariners battled out a 4-3 extra-inning victory against the Chicago White Sox, completing the team’s first sweep of the second half with Dominic Canzone playing the role of hero.

The Seattle Mariners bested the Texas Rangers 5-4 in a home run shootout and won a key series to improve their playoff positioning going into the dog days of August as Julio Rodriguez joined an exclusive club of his own.

The Mariners dropped a key game against the Rangers on Saturday as Cal Raleigh accrued a quintet of strikeouts while extra-inning heroics for the visitors sealed a 6-4 defeat.

The Mariners bounced back from a tough loss on Friday to break out for a 7-2 win on Saturday in Anaheim as Cal Raleigh whacked his MLB-leading 40th home run of the season and George Kirby gutted out a hard-fought quality start.

The Seattle Mariners bounced back from a rough series loss to Milwaukee on Thursday as they eked out a win over the Los Angeles Angels by a 4-2 score. Julio Rodriguez, Randy Arozarena, and Jorge Polanco cracked home runs while Logan Evans tossed five innings of one-run ball.

The Mariners had a bad case of the Mondays in their series opener against the Brewers as they failed to scratch across even a single run, all while a rough sixth inning for George Kirby and a shaky debut by Brandyn Garcia resulted in six crossing the plate for the red-hot visitors.

It took 11 innings, but the Seattle Mariners fended off the Houston Astros 7-6 on Saturday in a thrilling ballgame.

The New York Yankees won game two of the three-game set in the Bronx today with a big offensive showing against a Seattle Mariners team that looks to be slipping, and now the Mariners will have to buckle up to keep their playoff spot intact.

Julio Rodriguez, Cal Raleigh, and Randy Arozarena went a combined 0-13 while the Mariners as a whole went 0-11 with runners in scoring position on Thursday, leading to a disappointing series split to open the final homestand of the first half.