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 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 Mariners’ woes on the road continued on Tuesday evening, as they dropped a game and a series to the Tampa Bay Rays. Problems both typical and atypical dogged the team, but two consistent issues were what sealed the deal.

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.

Luis Castillo pitched much better than his previous outing and got out of some jams, while Julio Rodriguez and Eugenio Suárez both homered, yet Seattle got clobbered anyway. What were the big takeaways from the Mariners’ fifth straight defeat?

The Seattle Mariners clobbered the New York Mets’ bullpen just enough to overcome a shaky start of their own on Friday, winning a high-scoring game with a barrage of doubles from guys all around lineup.

The Mariners won their eighth straight on Tuesday, beginning a nine-game road trip with a pitcher’s duel that ended in the visitor’s favor due to some heads-up baserunning and situational hitting coupled with magic on the mound from George Kirby.

The Seattle Mariners continued their hot streak on Saturday night with a 7-4 win over the Tampa Bay Rays, riding a home run from Cal Raleigh and two from Julio Rodriguez to some early scoring that proved to be the difference on the second day 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.

George Kirby steered around some trouble in early innings and Josh Naylor showed off his big man speed once again as the Mariners outlasted a White Sox rally for an 8-6 win at T-Mobile Park.

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 Seattle Mariners had something of a comeback attempt on Wednesday night in Sacramento, but it fell short as the team dropped two of three to the cellar-dwelling Athletics and fell into a tie with the Texas Rangers for the third wild card.

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 Milwaukee Brewers’ impressive 11-game winning streak came to a close on Tuesday, as the Seattle Mariners rode a Cal Raleigh solo shot and an excellent performance from Logan Gilbert to a 1-0 victory in the second game of three in Seattle.

Randy Arozarena stayed hot and Luis Castillo delivered a gem to open the second half as the Mariners picked up a much-needed home win against the Astros to continue pursuit of their AL West-leading rival.