The Seattle Mariners have gained 15 of their previous 16 video games and have now clinched a playoff berth for the second time since 2001.
The Mariners earned a spot on this 12 months’s postseason Tuesday evening with a 4-3 win over the Colorado Rockies and a New York Yankees victory over the Chicago White Sox earlier in the night. Their win was a thriller, with Josh Naylor hitting a bases-clearing double within the eighth inning to affect T-Cellular Park.
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An AL West title, which has escaped the Mariners for twenty-four years, is in earshot. Thanks to a three-game series sweep of the Houston Astros over the weekend, Seattle owns the tiebreaker over the staff that has gained their division every of the previous seven 162-game seasons.
Throughout the Astros’ streak of eight straight playoff appearances, they’ve reached the World Collection 4 instances and gained all of it twice. They’re now vulnerable to lacking out on the playoffs for the primary time since 2016. The Mariners, alternatively, are already in — and so they’re accountable for their division goals.
Their magic quantity to clinch the division is 1 after the Astros lost Tuesday against the Athletics.
Not solely is the AL West inside attain, however so is the AL’s No. 2 seed, which might give the Mariners a bye within the wild-card spherical and home-field benefit for the AL Division Collection. A sweep of the lowly Rockies would do the trick.
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Seattle final made the playoffs in 2022, when it completed second within the AL West with a 90-72 file. Though the Mariners performed October baseball that 12 months, they needed to begin every of their two sequence on the street because the AL’s second wild-card staff. The Mariners bought previous the Toronto Blue Jays earlier than being swept by, who else, however the Astros within the ALDS.
The Mariners’ storybook 2025 season has featured a switch-hitting protagonist: catcher Cal Raleigh has became a home-run mashing sensation. He is in hanging distance of MLB’s tenth 60-homer season. He wants 4 dingers to tie Aaron Decide’s AL file of 62 that the Yankees star set in 2022.
Raleigh’s bought a powerful supporting forged, too.
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Like Raleigh, three-time All-Star heart fielder Julio Rodríguez got here into Tuesday ranked high 10 within the majors in WAR. Coming into this week’s sequence in opposition to the Rockies, left fielder Randy Arozarena, additionally an All-Star this season, was the third participant on the Mariners with no less than 27 homers in 2025, wanting up at solely Rodríguez and Raleigh on the staff leaderboard in that division.
Seattle’s different two All-Stars this season are on its pitching employees: starter Bryan Woo and nearer Andrés Muñoz. Woo has posted a 2.94 ERA, and Muñoz earned his thirty eighth save of the season in Tuesday’s win.
After a regarding finish to August, Seattle has appeared each bit the a part of a contender in September.
Now the Mariners will formally be enjoying in October.
