Familiar formula. Mariners manufacture run, get Edwin Diaz late lead to avoid Yankees sweep

For once in a long time, the Seattle Mariners got to what they seemed to do so well, so often throughout their scorching first half of the season.

For one, a late rally. It had been a while since the Mariners had one of those.

But moreso their ability to manufacture a run. As Dee Gordon’s production tailed off that became less of a regular occurrence.

Then Mitch Haniger led off with a walk against hard-throwing Dellin Betances in the bottom of the eighth inning, stole second base with a fancy slide, reached third on Jean Segura’s sacrifice bunt and scored when he took off on Robinson Cano’s ground ball to second base with another head-first slide to just beat the tag at the plate.

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