{"id":807998,"date":"2026-09-18T07:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/807998\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T07:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:36:17","slug":"how-the-mariners-slim-playoffs-hopes-arent-dashed-yet-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/807998\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Mariners slim playoffs hopes aren&#8217;t dashed yet | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE, Wash. &#8211; The Seattle Mariners have already fallen hard from the heights of an American League Championship Series Game 7 just a year ago, but their playoff odds aren&#8217;t totally shot&#8230; at least, not quite yet.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle is 71-82 after beating the Los Angeles Angels last night, now six games behind the Houston Astros in the AL West race.<\/p>\n<p>The Mariners&#8217; elimination number shrinks to four, needing to avoid a combined four losses and Astros wins.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle does own the tiebreaker over Houston, as well as\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Seattle&#8217;s road back is possible, as they need to win six of their final nine games to have a shot, raising their playoff odds from 0.3% to 17%.<\/p>\n<p>The M&#8217;s next play at the Colorado Rockies before hosting the Astros for two games and the Angels for four.<\/p>\n<p>COPYRIGHT 2026 BY KXLY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE, Wash. &#8211; The Seattle Mariners have already fallen hard from the heights of an American League Championship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[5,2536,620,4,319,169,619,65,3235,185,61170,558],"class_list":["post-807998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-seattle-mariners","tag-baseball","tag-local-sports","tag-mariners","tag-mlb","tag-national-sports","tag-news","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-seattlemariners","tag-sports","tag-storytracker","tag-top-stories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117290898823545896","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807998","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=807998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}