Unfathomable.
The Oakland A’s lost yet again to the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday, by a 4-2 score at T-Mobile Park. The A’s have now dropped 11 straight matchups with the division rival Mariners this year.
If Oakland had only split their season series with Seattle, with nine wins apiece, then the green-and-gold would be in the Second Wild Card position right now, and they’d be 2.5 behind the Astros for the AL West lead with three head-to-heads remaining. Instead they’ve lost 14 of 18 against the Mariners, helping bump the A’s from the division race entirely and putting them on the verge of mathematical elimination in the Wild Card.