The 14-game win streak and its attendant bouancy are decidedly in the rear view mirror now. It calls to mind a cliche about good things and endings. But you know what? The inverse of that cliche holds too. All bad things must come to an end. Ask the Red Sox or the White Sox or the Cubs or the Royals. Even after an unfortanate start to the second half, the Mariners still have a 1.5-game lead on the Guardians in the Wild Card race. Seattle’s just begun a tough 20-game stretch, where they need only hold serve to stay in the playoff picture.
Mariners get upstaged by Houston, lose 3-1
