The Seattle Mariners were mostly sellers at the trade deadline three weeks ago. But a scorching hot stretch led by Julio Rodriguez brings them into the playoff race.
The young All-Star recently finished a four-day stretch for the ages, setting an MLB record with 17 hits in four games and helping to push the Mariners back into the American League playoff race.
Rodriguez went 17 for 22 in the four games from Wednesday to Saturday — all Mariners wins — raising his batting average from .256 to .278 in the process. Seattle finished a sweep over the defending World Series championMLB Power Rankings: Are the Seattle Mariners a Top-5 team? The Mariners have won 14 of their past 17 games and currently have a spot in the playoffs. They're a half-game ahead of theThere are still six weeks left in the regular season, but the Mariners understandably feel good about their chances to play extended October baseball.
"It all comes down to the competing and our guys love to compete and we got after it today and that’s the only way you’re going to figure out a way to sweep a team like that at this time of the year," Seattle manager Scott Servais said."So we’ll keep rolling. Guys are feeling it right now. We’re playing great baseball."After Sunday's games, the
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