If you’ve just woken from a deep slumber, welcome! The Mariners won 90 games last year! If you’re wondering if they made the playoffs, I think that’s HIPAA. (No, they did not.) To catch you up, the Mariners were the beneficiaries of a whole lot of luck, or whatever you want to call it, winning 12 more games than their Pythagorean record suggests they should have.
Perhaps nothing helped the team win than extremely, extremely timely hitting — their lineup ranked 27th in wOBA overall — but there’s also that they benefited from late-game heroics from their pitching, too.