SEATTLE -- Two separate times during Wednesday's game at Safeco Field, a Mariner infielder committed an error that allowed a runner to reach base, and that runner wound up scoring on a home run.
Those two extra runs would prove to be the difference as the Mariners dropped a 5-4 contest to the Padres and dropped below the Tampa Bay Rays in the American League Wild Card standings for the first time all season.
The Padres got the scoring going in the second inning when Austin Hedges slugged a two-run homer just two batters after Eric Hosmer reached on an error by shortstop Gordon Beckham.