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Baseball is a game designed to break your heart, as the former commissioner and scholar Bart Giamatti once so poignantly wrote.

When the two-seam fastball left his hand, Robbie Ray knew trouble was ahead. The pitch was leaking back to the middle of the plate in the worst possible way.

It will be afternoon baseball for Mariners fans in the first postseason game at T-Mobile Park since Oct. 18, 2001. First pitch for Game 3 of the ALDS will be at 1:07 p.m.

With the Mariners potentially hosting a game in the American League divisional playoffs on Sunday, the Seahawks could move the time of their scheduled game against Arizona.

HOUSTON – I’m the nonbelieving fool who picked the Mariners to lose the American League Wild Card Series to the Toronto Blue Jays.

Oct. 10—TORONTO — After colorfully lauding his Mariners for their resiliency and their ability to rally from a seven-run deficit in Saturday's preposterous 10-9 win over the Blue Jays, and just before Champagne would explode all over the visitors' clubhouse of the Rogers Centre to celebrate a wild-card series victory, manager Scott Servais briefly mentioned the road ahead. "Next stop, y'all ...

Rick Lukens has spent the past few months on social media trying to convince naysayers that this year's Seattle Mariners squad has a shot at greatness. 

TORONTO – In the midst of the Mariners’ midseason 14-game winning streak, Adam Frazier was trying to balance the frustration of his inconsistencies at the plate and the beautiful chaos that the team was unleashing on the rest of the league.

TORONTO – Before this American League Wild Card Series began, I asked a member of the Mariners’ traveling party what sort of celebration they planned if the ballclub should happen to knock off the Toronto Blue Jays. Given that it would just be the first of four steps to their stated goal of winning the World Series, I thought it might be a little more sedate than the near-bacchanalia following their drought-breaking victory in Seattle.

How do you recover from an awful outing from your starting pitcher, a worse showing from one of your best relievers and a seven-run deficit with everything seemingly working against you and a sold-out crowd cheering against you like it’s Thunderdome?

TORONTO – When J.P. Crawford ran out to shortstop in the first inning, he allowed himself a moment to soak it all in.