Through 85 games this season, 37 of the Mariners contests have decided by one-run: they have won 26 of them.
Is this one-run magic truly sustainable? As the season treks along, doubtful fans around the league continue to ask this question, and Seattle continues to take close games. Despite a top-4 record in the majors, they find themselves in the second wild-card spot in the American League with a comfortable 8 game lead above the Oakland Athletics.
Of course, we cannot count the Mariners in for the postseason just yet – 77 games remain. Mariners fans still relive the nightmare of the 20-game win streak that Oakland rode into the postseason that kept a Seattle squad out of the playoffs in 2002.