CLEVELAND — J.P. Crawford hit a two-run homer, Luke Raley and Dylan Moore added solo shots and the Seattle Mariners stayed baseball’s hottest team with an 8-5 win over the AL Central-leading Cleveland Guardians on Tuesday night.
With their fourth straight win and eighth in nine games, the Mariners improved to an MLB-best 17-5 since May 26.
Seattle increased its lead in the AL West to 10 games — the largest in any division. It’s the club’s biggest advantage since the end of the 2001 season, when the Mariners won 116 games.
“We’re feeling good,” said starter Bryce Miller (6-5). “This is how we expected to start the year and we’re starting to put it together. It’s a really good baseball team. We’re going to throw it and whenever we swing it like that, it’s going to be tough to beat us.”