Seattle Mariners' Performance Against Bad Teams is Major Undoing of 2024 Season
If you want to have a solid baseball season, you need to do these two things: Win at home, and win the games you are supposed to win.
In 2024, the Seattle Mariners have done one of those things and not the other. And it's going to cost them a playoff berth.
With three home games to play in the 2024 season, the M's have gone 46-32, which is absolutely excellent. On the other hand, the M's have performed terribly against several of the bottom teams in the league.
Per "Mariners Playoff Hopeful" on social media:
Mariners:
1-5 vs the Tigers
5-8 vs the Angels
1-2 vs the Marlins
2-5 vs the Twins
1-2 vs the Pirates
2-4 vs the Blue Jays
1-2 vs the Nationals
3-3 vs the Rays
1-2 vs the Cubs
Knock a few of those losses off the block and you’re in last week or maybe even before.
Mariners:
— Mariners Playoff Hopeful (@MsPlayoffHope) September 25, 2024
1-5 vs the Tigers
5-8 vs the Angels
1-2 vs the Marlins
2-5 vs the Twins
1-2 vs the Pirates
2-4 vs the Blue Jays
1-2 vs the Nationals
3-3 vs the Rays
1-2 vs the Cubs
Knock a few of those losses off the block and you’re in last week or maybe even before.
The losses against the Tigers and Angels were absolutely crippling, as were back-to-back walk-off losses against the Oakland Athletics (fourth place in the American League West) in early September.
Over the offseason, there's going to be a lot of hand-wringing about Mariners ownership and the team's payroll, and there deserves to be, but the group's collective inability to take care of business of bad teams will ultimately be one of its biggest undoings.
The Mariners are finishing up a series against the Houston Astros on Wednesday afternoon before getting an off-day on Thursday.
They'll start the final series of the year with Oakland Athletics on Friday night.
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