If the season ended today, the Mariners would not make the playoffs.
The Mariners started 22-14, rattling off nine consecutive series wins. They are now 33-34, four games behind the Astros in the West and 2 1/2 games out of the wild card. How much have their playoff odds changed? Well, not much since the beginning of the season, but quite a bit since I wrote my Post-Early Report in May. Fangraphs still gives the Mariners top six playoff odds in the American League, with about one-in-two odds to make the playoffs and one-in-four odds to win the division.