"No, it's early," Seattle catcher Mike Zunino said when asked if the team is looking at getting over .500 as some sort of elusive numerical benchmark.
"There's a lot of baseball left to be played. I think it's more just trying to get to playing good baseball right now. We're starting to piece together our pitching, hitting and defense, and that's the main goal. Once we can piece those together, everything will take care of itself."
On Saturday night, the team got oh-so-close again.
Starter Roenis Elias battled through a stiff back and had allowed three runs after two innings, but he only surrendered one more in 5 1/3 frames.