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The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times
SEATTLE — In the end, it didn’t matter that their performance was so unlike the baseball they played this past week. Even if they had been brilliant or even better than they were on Sunday afternoon, the Mariners season would’ve ended with the 162nd game of the season. With the Yankees defeating the Rays, 1-0, on a walk-off ground ball from Aaron Judge at Yankee Stadium and Red Sox rallying from a 5-1 deficit for a 7-5 win over the Nationals in D.C., the outcome of the game at a sold-out T-Mobile Park wouldn’t have mattered. Obviously, the 7-3 loss to the Angels, where they trailed from the st…