NEW YORK — The distinction between the Mariners in the beginning of the season and the Mariners that changed into the most up to date crew in baseball over the last two months is obvious, consistent with supervisor Scott Servais.
With a extra balanced lineup and offensive manufacturing that in the end reflected its possible, Seattle rattled off series win after series win, tallying 12 in their ultimate 13 tries and 5 in a row coming into Sunday’s important rubber fit at Citi Field.
“We are more capable of coming back, we’re hitting the ball out of the park, we’re creating opportunities, we’re more balanced left-right,” Servais defined sooner than the sport. “We still have our issues at times … but the vibe around our team is much more, ‘Hey, we can get this done. We can come back.’”
That used to be the duty dealing with the Mariners on Sunday afternoon, however they weren’t as much as it in the finale, struggling a 6-3 defeat to the Mets and their first series loss because the Aug. 11-13 set in opposition to the American League East-leading Orioles. Seattle (77-59) dropped to a half-game lead over the Astros in the AL West standings, with Houston (77-60) set to near its series in opposition to the Yankees on Sunday evening.
With George Kirby at the mound for the primary time since Aug. 23 after being scratched from his prior get started with an sickness, the Mariners fell right into a 4-0 hollow 3 innings in, highlighted through Pete Alonso’s fortieth house run of the season.
Nos. 6-7 hitters Dominic Canzone and Mike Ford were given Seattle inside one run with back-to-back homers to almost the similar spot past the right-center-field wall in the fourth, however the bats didn’t have any further juice left in them after that.