There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home.
And no, that’s not Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz tapping those red shoes together. That’s the Seattle Mariners’ mantra of late.
The Mariners are embracing home cooking like no other team in baseball.
Since the All-Star Break, the Mariners are 19-6 in their 25 home games at T-Mobile Park.
That .760 winning percentage in the second half at home is the best in Major League Baseball, according to the Mariners’ PR team.
Going back even further, the Mariners provided this stat: Seattle is 28-10 in its last 38 home games, dating to June 13. That’s the best 38-game span of results at home for the Mariners since 2001, when that team famously won 116 games for the season.
The latest win came Wednesday night when Leo Rivas delivered an unlikely walk-off home run in the bottom of the 13th inning.
It’s all pretty crucial.
The Mariners enter Thursday just 1.0 game behind the Houston Astros in the AL West Division.
Seattle is also currently clinging to the third and final wild card spot. There, they’re 1.5 games up on the Texas Rangers. And for reference, the Mariners are 2.5 games behind both the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox, who are the other two teams currently in wild card spots.
For the season, the Mariners are 44-27 at home and 34-41 on the road.
They have 10 home games remaining and only six road games. If trends continue, that’ll bode well for Seattle.
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