Here's how the surging Mariners have reclaimed the AL West throne from the Rangers, Astros

Over the past month, the Mariners have been a baseball juggernaut, tearing through the rest of the league with reckless abandon. How have they done it?

SEATTLE — For the first 100 games of this Major League Baseball (MLB) season, the were thoroughly average.

Quite literally too. The Mariners had won 50 games and lost 50 games at that point in the season. 

The playoffs were definitely within the Mariners’ range of outcomes, but there was not anything tangible in the team’s results to feel that the postseason was a likelihood. The pitching was there, but Julio Rodriguez was underperforming in the first year

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