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Now that they’ve clinched a spot in the postseason, the rush to grab tickets for Seattle Mariners playoff games is just beginning.

If there’s ever a moment to get carried away, it felt appropriate that it’s with this team, and at this time. The Mariners embraced that idea Tuesday night, celebrating their return to the playoffs in a cloud of cigar smoke, bear hugs and beer chugs abound inside the home clubhouse. In the middle of the madness, each of them soaked in champagne, Cal Raleigh bumped into Jerry Dipoto. The ...

At 2:28 p.m. on Tuesday, a Mariners employee attached a camera to a wall beside Eugenio Suárez’s locker at T-Mobile Park, just in case there was a celebration to come. On the opposite end, Josh Naylor petted Tucker — the team’s lab/retriever mix — while wearing a Mariners hockey jersey with his nickname, “Naylz,” printed on the back. Up the tunnel, Jorge Polanco rocketed line drives to Ichiro ...

Two years ago, on the second to last day of the regular season, they silently watched their playoff hopes end on the televisions in their own clubhouse of T-Mobile Park.

SEATTLE – Some sports weekends are worth celebrating.

HOUSTON – When the Mariners jog onto the field Tuesday night at T-Mobile Park, they will be the first Seattle team since 2001 to be in control of winning the American League West entering the final week of the season.

SEATTLE – The physical toll of playing catcher can be obvious, as the red welt on Cal Raleigh’s neck showed last Tuesday night.

HOUSTON – When he came to Seattle before the 2019 season, he was considered by many in Major League Baseball to be an underachieving prospect who couldn’t stay healthy with an attitude problem. The Mariners believed that a new team, a chance to be an everyday player and the freedom to be himself, would unlock his talent and turn him into a foundational piece of their rebuild.

HOUSTON – At the very least, the Mariners appear to have avoided the worst-case scenario with Bryan Woo.

HOUSTON – The Mariners’ magic number to win the American League West is five.

HOUSTON – What was shaping up to be maybe the best day of the season for the Mariners turned, suddenly and ominously, into its most dreaded.