Mariners face uphill climb on final weekend

SEATTLE — The Mariners put single-game tickets for potential playoff games at Safeco Field on sale Friday. For any of those games to be played, the Mariners need to win while either Toronto or Baltimore, plus Detroit, stumble ahead of them.

After a 3-2 win over the A’s on Thursday, the Mariners were two games back of the Blue Jays and Orioles for the American League’s two Wild Card spots.

Mariners skipper Scott Servais hopes his club comes out and plays loose against an A’s team that has nothing to lose.

“We’ve played a lot of big games here the last couple weeks, where it seemed like we were on the edge of falling out of this thing and we haven’t,” Servais said. “We’ve responded. Our guys have earned the opportunity to be in this spot. We need help, no doubt about that. We need some other clubs to help us out. We have to play good ball and then worry about tomorrow, tomorrow.”

Complicating matters, the Tigers game against the Indians on Thursday was rained out and won’t be replayed unless needed until Monday in Detroit. That means if the Tigers are still alive for a Wild Card berth or a tiebreaker, the Mariners will have to wait until that makeup game is completed before knowing their fate.

If Seattle ends in a two-way tie for the …

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