So you consider how baseball can itself be fodder for cynicism: you remember well the last time the Mariners retired a jersey number and that it came to be known as Deadgar Weekend. Yet baseball gives you reason to hope too.

The postseason window for the Tampa Bay Rays continued to shrink on Sunday after getting swept by the Seattle Mariners. Now, the Rays must look ahead to the Athletics.

Julio Rodríguez followed with a single and Josh Naylor worked a walk. Houser moved them up 90 feet with a balk. Suárez scored both runners with a single up the middle to make it 4-0. But the Mariners failed to add another run off Houser in the inning.