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The late Roland Hemond, a legendary and longtime general manager, used to say the trades that worried him the most were the ones in which he was lavished with immediate praise for having made a one-sided deal.

This is the uplifting story of Geno, who began his Seattle season as an afterthought and then segued into a huge contributor to unexpected success.

SEATTLE — A weekend full of celebrations, smiles and good vibes ended in disappointing fashion for the Seattle Mariners on Sunday at T-Mobile Park. A crowd of 42,465 fans witnessed a subpar outing from Mariners starting pitcher Robbie Ray, and a nearly nonexistent performance from the Mariners offense in a…

After two decades of bad decisions and bad bounces and bad play, it’s time for Seattle baseball to celebrate again.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Where would the Seattle Mariners be without Cal Raleigh?

OAKLAND, Calif. — The thing about a nearly empty stadium is that it can still be loud in different ways.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — A defeat with the potential for a greater loss.

A journalism titan named Larry Stone tweeted Sunday that the Mariners were 47-19 since dropping 10 games below .500 after a mid-June series against the Angels. That was the same pace at which the Mariners won in 2001, when they tied the MLB record with 116 victories.

CLEVELAND — Perhaps the only thing that can slow down the Mariners on this road trip will be the rain showers that are expected to start early Sunday morning and the thunderstorms that are predicted follow right around the time of first pitch.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Instead of forcing the Angels into another ninth-inning implosion of mistakes, this time the Mariners turned the ninth inning into an explosion of their own hits and runs.

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The speedy annoyance of the baseball mosquito that is Sam Haggerty lighted the fuse. The true nature of a losing team going nowhere slowly revealed itself in the mistake-filled chaos that followed.