After a brutal August that saw the M’s play numerous playoff contenders and spend a lot of time away from home, playing the A’s at home was supposed to be a cakewalk pie stroll. Spoiler alert, it was not! The phenomenon of cruel nature that is the 2026 Seattle Mariners once again exerted itself, and the Mariners managed to drop the series to the corpse of the A’s roster. It took Bryan Woo’s heroics to prevent a sweep.
A series win the M’s took from Texas, but a sweep they needed to kindle their flickering playoff odds, which sit at 6.2% as of Thursday night. They come to Sacramento in need of, essentially, perfection.
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