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They trailed twice. They never flinched.\n\nSeattle fell behind by three runs in the third inning and again by two in the seventh. Neither deficit changed the approach.\n\n“We don’t panic,” manager Dan Wilson said. “We just continue to put together good at-bats and try to crawl our way back in the game.”\n\nThat showed up everywhere, not just in the big swings.\n\nThe Mariners applied pressure in ways that don’t always show up in the headline. They stole four bases, worked timely walks/at bats, dropped down a bunt in the ninth and consistently passed innings along instead of trying to win them in one swing.\n\n“It’s kind of a pass-the-baton mentality,” Julio Rodríguez said. “Just do your job and pass it to the next guy.”\n\nThat identity turned the game.
“We can beat you a lot of different ways,” Rodríguez said.\n\nThey had to.\n\n