The last time the Seattle Mariners faced the Oakland Athletics, it capped off a two-game sweep in late August to draw Seattle within three games of the second Wild Card spot, putting themselves in position to overtake and subsequently slip back behind their southern competitors in the coming weeks. Fast forward nearly a month and things look mostly the same, just with less time remaining on the clock. Seattle’s Wild Card hunt, given their four game gap to make up with just 13 to play, seems about out of juice, but Oakland can still be caught and made to suffer an October at home ahead of a winter reckoning with free agency.
Series Preview: Mariners (80-69) at Athletics (82-67)
