Rookie Jarred Kelenic homered, doubled twice and wrapped up his impressive series, leading the Seattle Mariners over the Kansas City Royals, 7-1, on Sunday, Sept. 19.

When the Seattle Mariners started down the path of bidding for the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, the target was 2024 or later to host for a third time. When MLB came back to the club earlier this year asking if 2023 was a possibility, the Mariners quickly kicked into gear.

With wins Wednesday afternoon, the Red Sox (83-65), the Blue Jays (82-64) and the Yankees (82-64) all sit four games ahead of Seattle in the wild-card standings.

Pinch-hitter Kyle Schwarber hit a tiebreaking three-run double in the eighth inning and the Boston Red Sox beat the Seattle Mariners, 8-4, on Tuesday night, Sept. 14, to keep pace in the competitive AL wild-card race.

Kyle Seager was announced Tuesday, Sept. 14, as the team’s nominee for the Roberto Clemente Award, which according to MLB, “annually recognizes the major-league player who best represents the game through extraordinary character, community involvement, philanthropy and positive contributions, both on and off the field.”

Mitch Haniger made Boston pay for a costly error by first baseman Kyle Schwarber, hitting a three-run home run with two out in the seventh inning, and the Seattle Mariners held on for a 5-4 win over the Red Sox on Monday night, Sept. 13.

With rookie Cal Raleigh struggling and Luis Torrens spending most of his time at designated hitter, Tom Murphy has been in the starting lineup at catcher on days when the Mariners are facing a left-handed starting pitcher and even a few days when there is a right-handed starter.

Tyler Gilbert gave up two hits in another sharp outing, Ketel Marte homered and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Seattle Mariners, 5-4, on Sunday, Sept 12.

The Mariners came through with enough run support that even ghosts from games past couldn't come back to haunt them in an 8-5 victory over the Astros in Houston.

The Seattle Mariners continuous flirtation with late-inning disaster caught up with them as the Houston Astros tied it up in the ninth inning and won it in the 10th on Tuesday, Sept. 7.

Seattle manager Scott Servais ended any speculation or hope that reigning American League Rookie of the Year Kyle Lewis might return to help the Mariners push their way into the postseason for the first time since 2001.

With the Mariners feeling something more than hope about the American League wild-card race, Yusei Kikuchi delivered his worst outing since, well, his last start in Houston on Aug. 20, sending his team an almost-certain defeat before the second inning ended in what would eventually be a disappointing 11-2 drubbing by Houston.

Kyle Seager hit a go-ahead, two-RBI double to spark an 11th-inning rally and lift the Seattle Mariners over the Arizona Diamondbacks, 10-4, on Sunday, Sept. 5, to complete the three-game series sweep.

Seattle rookie right-hander Logan Gilbert and four relievers combined to shut out Houston for the second straight day and J.P. Crawford scored the lone run on a sacrifice fly to give the Seattle Mariners a 1-0 win over the Astros on Wednesday, Sept. 1.

On Wednesday morning, Sept. 1, less than 12 hours after a dramatic 4-0 win over the Houston Astros, the Seattle Mariners announced that GM Jerry Dipoto and manager Scott Servais have been given multiyear contract extensions.

Abraham Toro hit a grand slam against a player he was traded for last month, connecting in the eighth inning and sending the Seattle Mariners over the Houston Astros, 4-0, on Tuesday night, Aug. 31.

A series of Seattle Mariners mistakes in the field and unmade plays on defense that are normally executed with regularity, and multiple failures to hit in key situations, resulted in a 4-3 defeat on Monday night, Aug. 30, against the Astros at T-Mobile Park.

Yusei Kikuchi throws five shutout innings, but Kansas City smacks him around in the sixth and goes on to take a 6-4 victory on Thursday.

The absence of fans at the mausoleum called the Oakland Coliseum over the two-game series with the Mariners was a bit stunning, particularly considering the A's are in the midst of a tight race with two other teams for the second wild-card spot, including the M's.

The Mariners got a solid outing from right-hander Chris Flexen, who worked through early trouble to produce another quality start, took an early lead by the third inning, added to that lead in later innings and closed out the eight-game road trip with a decisive 5-1 win over the A's.

With two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning on Monday, Aug. 23, Jake Bauers, who was starting just his fourth game since Aug. 4, provided the game-winning hit in the Mariners' stunning 5-3 win over the Oakland A's.

Can Matt Andriese become another success story, like Paul Sewald, Drew Steckenrider or JT Chargois?

Yep, series finale on Sunday, Aug. 22, had a little bit of everything for the Mariners, who had been bullied by the Astros in the first two games of the series.

Scott Servais will never forget the 2016 road trip to Houston. Then a first-year manager with a love of throwing batting practice, he was out on the field early before a game when he got an idea.

With extended family in town to meet his infant daughter, Marco Gonzales pitched one of the best games of his career, a complete-game two-hitter to beat the Texas Rangers, 3-1, on Thursday afternoon, Aug. 12.

The Seattle Mariners currently hold the longest active playoff drought among the four major North American professional sports, and many of their long suffering fans, who devoted themselves to the team as children, are starting to graduate from college.

ARLINGTON, Texas — As the thunder boomed outside the stadium, loud enough to draw murmurs from the fans in attendance, and blinding flashes of lightning could be seen through the glass windows that surround the upper decks of Globe Life Field, the first thoughts of most in the building, incl…

The Rangers' Jonah Heim, a well-traveled, switch-hitting catcher for his 26 years of age, having been traded three times and now in his fifth organization, hit a home run from each side of the plate, but it was his blast from the left side that particularly painful for the Mariners.

Major League Baseball issued a 10-game suspension and undisclosed fine to Seattle Mariners pitcher Hector Santiago on Tuesday, June 29, for possessing a foreign substance on his glove during the Mariners’ first game Sunday, June 27, against the White Sox at Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago.