Seattle Mariners: First Place Elimination

Seattle must win 4 more games (68 total) to avoid elimination from first place.

Here are the final standings in a scenario in which Seattle finishes the season in first place with 68 total wins.

These teams can still finish at or ahead of 90 wins:

TeamWGLMax W
HOU 682694
TEX 662692

In this scenario Seattle finishes tied at 68 wins with 1 team. Head-to-head:

  • Houston: Seattle wins the season series 11-2 and holds the head-to-head tiebreaker.

Final standings for this scenario

TeamWinsLossesPCTGB
HOU 68 94 0.420 0
SEA 68 94 0.420 0
ATH 67 95 0.414 1
LAA 67 95 0.414 1
TEX 67 95 0.414 1

Current standings

TeamWinsLossesGLPCTGB
HoustonHOU 68 68 26 0.500 0
TexasTEX 66 70 26 0.485 2
SeattleSEA 64 72 26 0.471 4
OaklandATH 53 83 26 0.390 15
LA AngelsLAA 52 84 26 0.382 16

How the remaining games play out

Each page shows one team's remaining series in this scenario. Green: they win the season series. Red: they lose it. Gray: the series ends tied. The tiebreak verdicts are in the blocks above, and this opens on Seattle, where the rivals those notes name are outlined.

TeamCurrent WinsCurrent LossesScenario WinsScenario LossesScenario Results
HOU 5 4 4 0 9-4
LAA 6 5 0 2 6-7
SEA 2 4 7 0 9-4
TEX 6 4 3 0 9-4
ATH 4 5 0 4 4-9
LAA 7 6 0 0 7-6
SEA 2 9 0 2 2-11
TEX 9 4 0 0 9-4
ATH 5 6 2 0 7-6
HOU 6 7 0 0 6-7
SEA 2 4 7 0 9-4
TEX 8 5 0 0 8-5
ATH 4 2 0 7 4-9
HOU 9 2 2 0 11-2
LAA 4 2 0 7 4-9
TEX 3 7 2 1 5-8
ATH 4 6 0 3 4-9
HOU 4 9 0 0 4-9
LAA 5 8 0 0 5-8
SEA 7 3 1 2 8-5
TeamCurrent WinsCurrent LossesScenario WinsScenario LossesScenario Results
Full head-to-head summary for this scenario

Final season series between every pair in this scenario, colored for the row team: green won the series, red lost it, gray tied it. Who wins a tied series is a tiebreaker question, answered in the head-to-head notes above. Seattle's row and column are highlighted, and cells in that row are outlined where a note names the pair: solid where the series settled the tie, dashed where it did not.

American League West

Team HOUTEXSEAATHLAA
HOU - 9 - 4 2 - 11 4 - 9 7 - 6
TEX 4 - 9 - 8 - 5 4 - 9 5 - 8
SEA 11 - 2 5 - 8 - 4 - 9 4 - 9
ATH 9 - 4 9 - 4 9 - 4 - 6 - 7
LAA 6 - 7 8 - 5 9 - 4 7 - 6 -