Baseball's best playoff race kicked into high gear in July -- and it all started with "the incident."
On July 19, the Seattle Mariners were 47-48 and in fourth place in the AL West -- 10 games behind the division-leading Texas Rangers. According to FanGraphs, their odds of winning the division stood at 2.5%.
The Mariners had lost 6-3 at home to the Minnesota Twins that night -- a game it looked like they'd win. The Twins scored the go-ahead run in the eighth inning on a passed ball with two outs and then added two more on a home run in the top of the ninth.