Over in the National League the top records since the All-Star break belong
to teams that have been strong all season: Cincinnati, Washington, Atlanta.
However, as Geoff Baker of the Seattle Times notes the American League’s
top post-break record belongs to the team that had the league’s worst record
going into the break.
Seattle went 36-51 in the first half, but the Mariners are now 23-13 in the
second half and tied with the Rays for the AL’s top mark during that time.
And the doubly amazing part is that they had a five-game losing streak within
that, meaning the Mariners went 23-8 surrounding the five losses in a row.
They’re still in last place in the AL West at 59-64 overall, but thanks to
the second Wild Card being added the Mariners are now at least on the fringes
of contention. With just two more wins they’ll match their 2010 win total
and eight more wins will match their 2011 win total.
明星賽後美聯戰績最佳的球隊你猜到了嗎？答案是水手隊，在今天獲勝之後，明星賽後
戰績來到24W-13L，全美聯最佳，更令人驚訝的是這當中包含了一次5連敗。
雖然因為明星賽前戰績太差，所以累積戰績目前看起來還距離領先群有一段距離，
但在今年多一張外卡名額的情況下，水手在接下來的一個多月球季會創造奇蹟嗎？
source:http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/
Aaron Gleeman