2019 Series Preview #46: Seattle Mariners @ Houston Astros

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Seattle has pretty much spiraled into irrelevancy as their record took yet another pummeling in the past two weeks leading into this series. They’ve lost 7 of their last 9 games and were swept twice at the hands of the Yankees and Cubs. They managed to split four games against the Rangers, but that’s hardly difficult these days. The Astros have really ground Seattle under their boots this season, having taken 12 of the 13 meetings between the two teams. Seattle has nothing left to fight for, having been more or less eliminated from postseason contention at this point. But I’m sure they’d like to play spoilers to the Astros’ quest for best record in…