The Mariners edge out the Rangers for first place in the West
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SEATTLE — When Andres Muñoz stormed off the bullpen at home Sunday afternoon at T-Mobile Park, the final score of the Rangers’ 13th-inning loss in Minnesota lit up on the scoreboard outside the city just behind him. All that separated the Mariners from first place in the American League West was three points.
The Mariners have been the hottest team in baseball for nearly two full months. And after Muñoz scored to seal a 3-2 victory, their massive conversion in the second half took them to a place they haven’t been in two decades.
Seattle (74-56) leads the division alone for the first time late in the season since August 24, 2003, when he also played his 130th career game.
Julio Rodriguez and Teoscar Hernandez carried the club’s historic power barrage from the day before, Luis Castillo cranked out seven scoreless innings, Muñoz made his eighth save since the club traded Paul Seewald and the Mariners completed their seventh sweep of the season.
It wasn’t nearly as comfortable as their 13-run victory on Saturday—their largest margin of victory in 2023—as Gabe Speer surrendered a one-and-two homer in the eighth. But Justin Toba hit Salvador Perez on seven pitches, including five straight errors, to cut off two runners in scoring position and Center Muñoz to close things out.
The Mariners have now won 11 of their last 12 games, 19 of their last 23 games and 21 of their last 26 games.
“It’s unbelievable,” Rodriguez said. “It’s something that these fans deserve. This whole organization, we’ve all been working. And just to see that and to see how the city embraces us and our success now, the way they support us, it’s pretty amazing. I just hope everyone continues to come and keep bringing energy because in the end After all, we’re all in this together.”
The sailors intended to capture rather than watch.
“We just want to continue to control what we can control and not have to worry about them,” Rodriguez said. “We can’t worry about them. I feel like we just have to focus on whatever we have to do as a team, as a Mariners team – the control we can have of each other (and) letting everything outside act the way it’s going to work out.”
Within a club where confidence has become so contagious, the players think about more and more.
“It’s exciting,” Castillo said through an interpreter, after limiting KC to just one outing and a walk. “I’ve been here since last year and I’m competing with this team. But I’ve always said, ‘This is not the way you start.’ ‘This is how you end.'”
The Mariners convincingly ended a 21-year drought last year, then showed they belong by sweeping a thrilling AL Wild Card Series in Toronto and going toe-to-toe with the eventual champion Astros in a tense AL Division Series. That raised expectations for 2023, with President of Baseball Operations Jerry DePoto saying in February that their first AL West title since 2001 was a “realistic goal” before softening that hold as they stumbled through the first four months.
However, after having the best finish in the NBA at 36-14 since the beginning of July, which saw a separate eight-game winning streak in August alone, they Might be my new favourite. When Seattle tied the game for the first time on Friday, Texas had it alone for 111 days (since May 5), and single or tied for 147 of the first 148 days of the season (exception: April 8).
But outside of the Rangers, no one can count the Astros, who have won Division V the past six years (the only thing covid-2020 has affected). These two teams will be their last 10 opponents, with 22 matches to go until then.
“I think one thing’s better than this is to keep going, going five or six games into first place and winning the league,” said Hernandez, who smashed a 433-foot single putt in the end after hitting two homers. , including the Grand Slam on Saturday.
Seattle is heading toward the end of the season — and has no intention of letting its foot off the Gas.
