For most of the past month, the Cleveland Guardians have been looking up at the Seattle Mariners in the American League Wild Card standings. That’s no longer the case, as the Mariners took the lead in the American League West on Sunday thanks to a win from them combined with a Houston loss.
And while that doesn’t have an immediate impact on the Wild Card standings (the Guardians are still 2 1/2 games behind the Astros for the final Wild Card spot despite going 6-1 across the last week), it does give them an added advantage given they hold the tiebreaker over the Astros.