San Francisco Giants at Seattle Mariners

They say every team wins 50 and loses 50 in any given Major League season, and it’s what you do with the other 62 that differentiate the contenders from pretenders. Well, the Mariners (50-50) have now achieved both of those marks in the win-loss column after Sunday afternoon’s 6-3 victory over the Giants -- doing so in exactly their 100th game. For a team that’s been looking to get on a run -- a real run, of multiple weeks and not a series here and there -- they are now entering the decisive stretch, especially with the Aug. 3 Trade Deadline looming. After that, virtually all of the good teams will get better -- perhaps even the Mariners, who certainly have specific needs. “We know where we're at,” said Logan Gilbert, who racked up a season-high-tying 10 strikeouts. “It hasn't been exactly what we wanted up to this point. But, as \[manager Dan Wilson\