{"id":292631,"date":"2025-09-04T19:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/292631\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T19:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:27:12","slug":"mariners-late-season-swoon-continues-in-9-4-defeat-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/292631\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners late-season swoon continues in 9-4 defeat | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Kirby was ineffective. The offense was woeful. And the Mariner swoon continued yesterday in a 9-4 loss to Tampa Bay\u2026<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Tampa Bay Sweeps Seattle 9-4\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/68b9e1c297703.image.png\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kirby lasted all of two innings while giving up 8-runs on 10-hits. The offense managed just 4-hits including a 3-run home run by Julio. The loss completed a sweep at the hands of the Rays and continued Seattle\u2019s struggles on the road. Since the All-Star break, the Mariners have not won a single series away from T-Mobile Park.<\/p>\n<p>They have today to think about it as the team heads for Atlanta to face the Braves tomorrow at 4:15 on ROOT Sports Northwest.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"American League West Standings and Scoreboard 09-04-25\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/68b9e1c80528e.image.png\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Seattle has slid to 4-games behind Houston in the American League West after the Astros edged the Yankees 8-7. Arizona blanked Texas to keep the Rangers a game-and-a-half behind Seattle. The Athletics fell to St. Louis 5-1.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"American League Wild Card Standings and Scoreboard 09-04-25\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/68b9e1cd17836.image.png\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>All three of the teams who hold the American League Wild Card playoff spots lost yesterday so the Yankees and Red Sox still lead Seattle by 4-and-a-half games. Tampa Bay\u2019s sweep of the Mariners have brought the Rays to within 2-and-a-half games alongside Kansas City, who fell to the Angels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Kirby was ineffective. The offense was woeful. And the Mariner swoon continued yesterday in a 9-4 loss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[13683,13682,37569,37264,46,5,620,4,619,65,3235,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-292631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-mariners","8":"tag-american-league-west-scoreboard","9":"tag-american-league-west-standings","10":"tag-american-league-wild-card-scoreboard","11":"tag-american-league-wild-card-standings","12":"tag-atlanta-braves","13":"tag-baseball","14":"tag-mariners","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-seattle","17":"tag-seattle-mariners","18":"tag-seattlemariners","19":"tag-tampa-bay-rays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115147679359027806","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}