Sometime back in May or June, Josh Smith recalled, when the Rangers were in a deep funk, Patrick Corbin talked to the team about the 2019 Nationals. That team went on to win the World Series as a National League Wild Card entry.

The Seattle Mariners made it through a gauntlet of 17-straight games without a day off, finishing the stretch on Sunday at T-Mobile Park. The Mariners closed out the stretch with a four-game series win,

Wyatt Langford hit a tiebreaking single in the 11th inning, and the Texas Rangers beat the Seattle Mariners 6-4.