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.

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.

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.

It was the Mariners’ ninth straight win, and in a game that was all M’s from the jump, there was a lot to go around: the man on the mound achieved a special honor while the man behind the plate did something truly historic.

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?

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.

Baseball’s auspicious history of superstition gained another entry over the weekend, as the Mariners—Cal Raleigh foremost among them—wore mustaches in their final two games against the Braves and the offense consequently erupted.

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?

To say the Mariners are under the weather is an understatement. They dropped the 10th of their last 11 road games on Wednesday as the entire team fell apart once more. What can the team do to rectify the situation going into their next series?

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.

Six of the seven runs scored in the Mariners’ 4-3 loss to the Guardians on Saturday were with two outs. What went wrong for Seattle as it dropped the second game in a critical series at Cleveland and a seventh straight road game overall?

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.

The Mariners finally ended their losing streak, and it came as soon as the boys returned to T-Mobile Park for a six-game homestand. What went right for the M’s to return to winning form?

The Seattle Mariners went to Williamsport on Sunday and treated the little league audience with a slew of examples of what not to do on a baseball diamond. Can the Mariners address these issues in time to stop their current skid?

The Mariners took care of business on Tuesday’s series opener against the White Sox, scoring eight runs and allowing just three on their way to a solid victory with each of their trade deadline acquisitions going yard.

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.