They’ve won back-to-back games on numerous occasions this season, though not enough to meet their own overall expectations. It certainly hasn’t felt that way given their back-and-forth inconsistency. They’ve swept the Athletics, who were hapless at the time and hard to beat in the last week, in a four-game series. There was a three-game sweep of the Rockies, who are on their way to being one of the worst teams in the National League.
But with Tuesday night’s decisive, 9-3 victory over the Marlins, whose 37-31 record this season is much better than the beleaguered reputation of the organization, the Mariners not only guaranteed a much-needed series win, but they also produced two of their best-played games of the season on consecutive nights.
“Back-to-back really good games,” manager Scott Servais said. “It certainly feels a little different, certainly with the production that we’ve had offensively from different parts of the lineup, everybody contributing. It feels different in the clubhouse. I think players understand that we needed to make some adjustments and we have. We’re starting to get the results from it. But we’ve got to stay with it, day after day after day. We have to grind through it.”
