They avoided a sweep, but with another day lost, they can’t escape the inevitable. Even with a 3-2 win over the Yankees on Sunday afternoon, the Mariners moved a little closer to postseason elimination.
Mitch Haniger provided most of the heroics. He scored the go-ahead run with a brilliant slide in the bottom of the eighth inning and secured Edwin Diaz’s 54th save with a gorgeous, full-extended diving catch on Giancarlo Stanton’s broken bat bloop to shallow right-center.
The Mariners remain 7 1/2 games behind the A’s, who rallied for a win in Texas, for the second wild card spot.