The Seattle Mariners have run out of time to go in for 2023.
Monday night’s loss drew the Mariners back to their natural state, settled at the base of the valley that is .500 at 50-50. They sit 8.5 back of Texas in the AL West with both Houston and Anaheim between them, and 5.5 behind the third Wild Card spot with three clubs between them, closer to Detroit than they are to Toronto, and just half a game closer to first Wild Card Tampa Bay than they are to the disastrous White Sox who represent the cliff’s edge of the continental shelf before the trench that holds Kansas City and Oakland in its craterous depths.