White sox first. Mike Tauchman strikes out swinging. Lenyn Sosa homers to center field. Andrew Benintendi strikes out swinging. Luis Robert grounds out to shortstop, J.P. Crawford to Josh Naylor.

It’s a group that can win a Series. But as we said at the top, it’s time to slow down and let these guys play nice, clean baseball the rest of the way. They’re as good as anyone now. Just go prove it.

By acquiring the top offensive target at the trade deadline, Geno Suarez, along with Josh Naylor, the Mariners finally did something fans have been asking the organization to do for years - take a big ...