Associated Press

The Mariners have bounced back time and again during their surprisingly successful season, and they did it again Friday night in Kansas City.

SEATTLE – When the Seattle Mariners started down the path of bidding for the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, the target was 2024 or later to host for a third time.

SEATTLE – With every crushing defeat or losing streak where it seemed as though the 2021 Seattle Mariners would regress to an expected reality, they’ve always rebounded with a win streak to keep them relevant in a postseason race that always seemed implausible.

A slider off the seam of Jake Bauers’ pant leg put the potential winning run on base and the possible game-winning double — a line drive down the right field line with Bauers running — landed foul by just inches, transforming the screams of the hopeful Mariners fans in the crowd of 17,860 into crestfallen groans.

The All-Star Game is coming back to Seattle, 22 years after its most recent appearance. And on nights like Tuesday, when the ballpark crackled with energy, and the game resonated with meaning, it’s possible to dream.

With the temperature dropping to 60 degrees in the eighth inning of a game that was over three hours old, there was the feeling of fall at T-Mobile Park. And with almost all of the announced crowd of 19,887 standing and screaming in anticipation of every pitch from Drew Steckenrider to Kyle Schwarber in the eighth inning, it gave a different and somewhat foreign feeling of fall as in ‘fall baseball’ where every little thing moment matters and the outcome could be monumental or detrimental to your season.

Multiple sources confirmed a report from ESPN’s Jeff Passan that T-Mobile Park has been selected to host Major League Baseball’s All-Star game in July 2023.

Haniger’s three-run homer off reliever Ryan Brasier in the seventh inning broke a 2-2 tie and gave the Mariners a lead they wouldn’t relinquish.

Before Jarred Kelenic’s ninth-inning two-run homer, the Mariners had mustered just three hits in the game — two of them were solo homers from Mitch Haniger and Dylan Moore. It meant all four runs came off homers.

Arizona did more damage to the Mariners’ AL wild-card hopes with its second straight win, taking the series from a team that was surging just two days ago.