Seattle Mariners Once Again Fail to Capitalize in 2-1 Loss to Los Angeles Angels

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ANAHEIM, Calif. — For the first time since 2019, the Seattle Mariners will finish with a losing season.

That fate was secured for the Mariners after a 2-1 loss to the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday at Angel Stadium, which handed Seattle its 82nd loss of the season.

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"It's difficult, it's frustrating, all those things," Seattle manager Dan Wilson said in a postgame interview Tuesday. "It's never a good mark to be at and it's not one that we expected to be at. It's frustrating and it's just tough to be there at this point."

The Mariners' loss Tuesday could be described similarly to the team's 2026 campaign: missed opportunities.

Seattle finished the game 2-for-7 with runners in scoring position and stranded six. Los Angeles went 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position and left eight on base.

Both team's starting pitchers finished with quality starts in their outings. Angels starter Ryan Johnson finished the game with seven strikeouts, one hit batter and one earned run allowed on six hits in six innings pitched.

Mariners starter Logan Gilbert finished with seven strikeouts, two walks, a wild pitch and a hit batter and surrendered two earned runs on six hits (one home run) in six innings pitched.

Despite finishing with a quality start, Gilbert had very little positive to say about his performance.

"I lost the game for us," Gilbert said after the game. "There are positives, I don't really want to be too negative. But, we lost a 2-1 game, a game that we should've run and I gave up the last run. It's kind of the situation that we're in. So, yeah, it's disappointing."

For the first four innings, Johnson and Gilbert bent, but didn't break. Both starters got out of respective jams. Seattle had the bases loaded with two outs in the top of the third, but failed to bring a runner home.

The first team to break through was Los Angeles.

The Angels took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the fifth after first baseman Vaughn Grissom hit an RBI double to bring home left fielder Wade Meckler from first. Meckler (who reached via a single) and Grissom's respective hits both came with two outs.

Mariners center fielder Julio Rodriguez tied the game at one run apiece. He brought home designated hitter Dominic Canzone via an RBI double of his own in the top of the sixth. Canzone reached via a lead-off triple. Seattle was unable to bring in Rodriguez home, which kept the score deadlocked going into the bottom of the sixth.

With one out, Los Angeles right fielder Josh Lowe hit a solo home run that bounced off the wall above the yellow line in right field, resulting in the eventual final of 2-1.

The Mariners were retired in order in the eighth and ninth innings and a double play ended the game in the top of the ninth and sealed Seattle's fate of a losing season.

The M's aren't officially mathematically eliminated from playoff contention yet, but the odds are infinitesimal.

Regardless of when Seattle's playoff hopes officially end, there are still games left to be played before a season that can be reductively categorized as "disappointing" comes to an end.

The Mariners will look to salvage the final game of the series against the Angels at 6:38 p.m. PT on Wednesday at Angel Stadium.

George Kirby will start for Seattle and Yusei Kikuchi will start for Los Angeles.

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