Mariners’ series win ‘underscored’ why there’s urgency this season
The Seattle Mariners had a good week, winning of three of four games against the Chicago White Sox to open a seven-game homestand to build on their lead in the American League West.
The way the Mariners won that series, however, didn’t exactly instill confidence in the team’s current makeup.
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Seattle had to come back in the late innings of every one of their three wins, twice went to extra innings over the four games, and scored just one run against each of Chicago’s starting pitchers in the series. The White Sox, by the way, have the worst record in MLB at 18-52 entering Friday.
“I think what this series has underscored is two things: No. 1, they need at least one bat at the (MLB trade) deadline,” MLB Network insider Jon Morosi told Seattle Sports’ Wyman and Bob on Thursday. “But just as quickly, No. 2 is they are good enough that adding a bat is such a clear and obvious approach that the front office has no choice but to do it.”
Morosi, who is a weekly guest with Wyman and Bob typically at 5 p.m. every Thursday, shared a few other points about the state of the Mariners, whose offense ranks near the bottom of the league in several categories even though Seattle improved to 40-31 with its series win over the White Sox and currently leads the AL West by 5 1/2 games.
“The Mariners’ division right now is making it so clear that this is the Mariners’ division to win or lose,” he said. “This is theirs. It should be theirs. The other teams have struggled. Houston still hasn’t gotten things going yet. The Rangers have been having some different injury-related issues and they just haven’t performed that well. This is the Mariners’ division this year. Should be. It looks that way from now until October, and so now they need to act like that. They need to act like front runners.”
