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SEATTLE – You can’t rely on a diminutive utility infielder to bail you out with a walk-off homer every night.

SEATTLE – The American League West has, suddenly, turned into a three-team race.

The longest night of the season had the strangest of endings for the Mariners.

Of course, Josh Naylor wouldn’t notice a sign taped to the railing in front of the left-field bleachers.

Four minutes later and 2,000 miles away, Randy Arozarena completed one of the biggest swings of the season in the American League West.

SEATTLE – After blasting a combined 10 home runs and scoring 28 runs in their previous two games, it would have been impossible for the Mariners to replicate that sort of production on Monday night.

From the time Ryan Bliss underwent surgery to repair his torn biceps, the focus was always on beating the timeline for his recovery and possibly being an option for the Mariners before the end of the regular season.

SEATTLE – Exactly two versions of the Seattle Mariners exist of late: They’re either smoldering hot or freezing cold.

ATLANTA – When the Braves curiously announced that right-hander Spencer Strider had been scratched from Sunday’s start, roughly three hours before the scheduled noon first pitch at Truist Park, the initial response from Mariners fans wasn’t relief.

ATLANTA – The complaints about his frustratingly slow start to every season remain valid based on empirical data. The expectations for even more production with some consistency will continue to be demanded – it’s something he wants as well. And the narrative that Julio Rodríguez never comes through in clutch situations? Well, that’s something he’s working to disprove.

ATLANTA – With each road failure, a number growing rapidly at the wrong time in the season, Dan Wilson has predicted his team would bounce back the next day with a win.