This series against the Red Sox comprises an entire blink-and-you’ll-miss-it, three-day homestand in Seattle. The M’s look to continue their surge of series wins in front of their hometown fans, who got to witness live neither the back-and-forth drama of the Twins series nor the weirdly easy-looking wins against the Diamondbacks. These games sandwich the trade deadline, so fans will have one eye on the games and the other on league news, wondering whether the teams that face off first on Monday will look different than those that play Wednesday afternoon. I’ll be watching the players whose names have been bandied about on the trade market (Hernández, Sewald, France, Gilbert), just in case it’s the last time, as well as J.
Series Preview: Mariners (54-51) vs. Red Sox (56-49)
