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Embed from Getty Images SEATTLE, Wash. — Neck-hairs upright, chills across their bodies of nearly four myriad people, every corporeal vessel—despite the spirits they carry having flown into the stratosphere long ago—stood in place to allow wondrous eyes to spot their night’s hero. Josh Naylor alone may
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Embed from Getty Images Words can hardly capture the seeming strangeness of the moment. Summer has turned to fall, and yet the Seattle Mariners are sitting pretty in the AL West. The M’s are fresh off the biggest sweep of the season against none other than the Houston Astros,
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Embed from Getty Images HOUSTON, Texas — The collapse of the old baseball order is seemingly upon us. The mighty Astros, through whom the American League has run for what seems like an eon, lay gravely wounded on the marble steps of baseball’s postseason shrine with just one week left
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Embed from Getty Images Maybe, just maybe, the shoe is on the other foot. With just seven games remaining in the 2025 regular season, the Seattle Mariners are two games ahead of the Houston Astros for the AL West lead. The Mariners haven’t been in such a rosy situation
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Embed from Getty Images HOUSTON, Texas — A panoply of performances punctuated the Mariners’ 6-4 triumph over the Astros on Saturday, but two moments from the instant classic stand out above all others. In the marathon story of game two, they flank the meat of the action like thick leather
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Embed from Getty Images HOUSTON, Texas — With one catch in Houston, Víctor Robles etched his name in the wall of Mariners who will never be forgotten. Daikin Park is nothing if not the graveyard of pretenders. Memories of late-inning Astros comebacks, specters of the Evil Empire’s umbral victories:
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Embed from Getty Images It’s a setting that is almost straight out of a semi-fantastical sports film: the two top teams in the AL West—one a widely-hated longtime champion, the other the pluckiest perennial underdogs in the sport—initiated a series on Friday from exactly the
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Embed from Getty Images In one of the most critical matchups of the season on Friday, the Mariners faced the Astros in a series that will likely decide who wins the AL West. Setting the tone in the first game was going to be crucial, and it was a prime
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Embed from Getty Images HOUSTON, Texas — It’s still too early to tell what the biggest news from Friday night’s Houston opener was, but until Bryan Woo’s MRI comes back, the Mariners can guardedly celebrate a massive 4-0 win against their arch-nemesis. Any time your pitching
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Embed from Getty Images HOUSTON, Texas — There are few things a ball club wants to see less. The ace of the rotation is pitching a gem, well on track to breeze through seven or even eight innings. He goes out for the sixth, but he seems to be in discomfort
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Embed from Getty Images There will be no scoreboard watching this weekend for the Mariners and Astros. The two AL West franchises are butting heads in a pivotal three-game series that will more than likely determine the winner of the division. Despite the fact that both sides have a
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There’s an old saying: go to the ballpark, and you’re going to see something new. The fans at Kauffman Stadium certainly saw that novelty in the top of the eighth inning on Thursday afternoon, as the visiting Mariners put together a miniature rally with a first-of-its-