against the A's in their park at the Oakland
Coliseum Thursday afternoon. Not an easy
task, however, they are still in for the wild
card.
The Mariners are 2 1/2 games behind in
the wild card race with ten games remaining.
Even if they win their final ten games it
will still be hard to get in. The Houston
Astros have 91 wins with ten games left.
The Mariners win all ten games and the
Astros by some miracle lose all ten or
nine out of ten the Mariners would win
the AL West. The Mariners lose one or
win all the games and the Astros win one
then they would be tied and play for the
division title. Not likely happen but we
would see another 1995.
Wednesday night the Mariners beat the
A's 4-1 under the great pitching of Chris
Flexen who went seven innings giving up
one run on a homer run by Matt Chapman
in the fifth inning. That was right after
Ty France hit a home run in the top of
the fifth. Made the score 3-1.
Kyle Seager made it 2-1 in the 4th inning
hitting a home run giving him 35 on the
season. Even more important Kyle had his
100th rbi. He had never had that many
rbi's in a season before. Now the question
is will the Mariners take his option next
season which is up to $20 with incentives
added in. A hard one for Jerry Dipoto to
do. Can the Mariners go out and get another
third baseman or a second baseman and
move Abraham Toro back to his natural
position. One of the drama's for the off-
season.
If the Mariners do make the
playoffs though chances are low and
Kyle continues to do the rest of the way
like he has against Oakland in this series.
Say he is the hero these ten remaining
games won't it be hard to let him go. I
am glad I don't have that decision to
make. Besides the home run he had
three hits total in the game. It would
nice to see three more hits by Seager
on Thursday. What would even better
we see Yusei Kikuchi pitch well in
this game in the same fashion as Tyler
Anderson, Marco Gonzales and Chris
Flexen.
The Mariners take on the LA Angels
in a three game series beginning on
Friday in Anaheim. The Angels are
in a six-game losing streak with a
record of 2-8 in the last ten games.
They are playing the Houston Astros
on the road so have to root for them.
Oh by the way if they win their last
ten games they won't catch the
Mariners and of course six of the
games are against the Mariners.
The worst the Mariners will do
is third place in the AL West.
I will wrap it up for this post.
Check you next time with a
Mariner sweep we hope. Go M's.
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