Going into this series, the Mariners and Phillies were both teetering at an inflection point, division leaders (or former division leaders) looking to turn around a recent stretch of bad baseball. The Phillies are 3-7 over their last ten games, but still comfortably atop the NL East; meanwhile in the AL West, the Mariners are clinging by their fingernails to the top or near-top or slightly below the cliff edge on any given day, but have found themselves some new energy with some impactful trade deadline (and, in the case of Victor Robles, pre-deadline) acquisitions. Tonight it was the Mariners who seized that energy and ran with it, walloping the Phillies 10-2 (with those two runs, it should be said, scored fully in garbage time).
A tale of two vibes: Mariners defeat Phillies, 10-2
