SEATTLE — The Mariners kept their slim postseason hopes alive Thursday night with some cooperation from the A’s.
Oakland didn’t turn in the sharpest defensive effort and the A’s bats couldn’t come through in a 3-2 loss at Safeco Field to open this season-ending four-game series.
It was a 1-1 game when Mike Zunino homered off A’s reliever Liam Hendriks in the seventh for the deciding run. The Mariners tacked on a run in the eighth against Ryan Madson and Edwin Diaz closed it out in a tense ninth, as Seattle remained two games behind Baltimore and Toronto with three to play in the race for the American League’s two Wild Card berths.