Mariners Top Guardians 8-5 in Elite American League Clash

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00:00An interesting matchup this week in Cleveland between the

00:06Guardians and the Mariners. The two other teams that are atop

00:09their division in the American League. The Guardians in the AL

00:12Central, Seattle in the American League West. The M's continue

00:15to be the only team with a winning record in the American

00:19League West and Seattle continues to win baseball games.

00:22Victory yesterday in their opener in the land against the

00:25Guardians eight to five. Big game for JP Crawford. A couple

00:29of RBIs, Seattle DRS. They won four in a row and they've also

00:33won eight of their last nine. Eight to five, the victory over

00:36Cleveland. Yeah, so changing my opinion here over the past

00:39couple of weeks on the Mariners where I just thought it was

00:41like, okay, eventually somebody like Texas is going to overtake

00:43them because I don't think the Mariners are all that good. Do

00:45I think they're great right now? No, but they're playing

00:47quality baseball, getting good starts out of their pitchers

00:49and getting some timely heading like you bring up JP Crawford

00:51three RBI yesterday, which includes a home run. His name

00:54has been popping up in the highlights over the past week

00:56and a half, but also it's still the batting 208 as a leadoff

00:59hitter, but we broke this game down yesterday. It was pretty

01:01simple. You're taking a look at really a coin flip game where

01:04you just take the plus money with Seattle was, but also the

01:07pitcher on the mound, Tristan McKenzie, one of those high

01:09expert minus guys only last two and a third innings pitch four

01:12earned runs and four walks just letting you know he was all

01:15over the place and giving everything up. That's a good

01:17win for the Seattle Mariners. I'm not out of the Guardians

01:19are going to win that division. The question is going to be for

01:22me, not the Guardians, but what is Seattle really made of

01:24because nobody it looks like is going to be able to give them a

01:27charge out there in the West and I just want to see how they

01:30progress through the summer and also sometimes we talk about

01:32the Yankees, which I brought up yesterday. You're in a close

01:34race with the Baltimore Auras. If you were seven and a half or

01:37eight and a half games up, Brian Kass was like, hey, we're cool

01:39right now. We'll let things settle in. We don't have to

01:40make any moves. What did the Seattle Mariners do with the

01:43deadline is like, okay, we're going to make the playoffs to

01:45win this division. We seem like a solid team or do they make

01:47moves to get extra players, pitchers and hitters on that

01:50ballclub. I like what I see out of the Mariners and I wasn't

01:52all that impressed about a month ago.