Mariners team is manufacturing some luck

Somebody mentioned in the comments thread of the previous post that this Mariners team is putting itself in a position to take advantage of some luck. I could not agree more. Just like, back during the team's losing stretches, luck seemed to go the other way when the M's were not getting things done. You have to be good to be lucky and lucky to be good in this game. Yes, it helps to play the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Mariners could easily have been swept the last three instead of sweeping. But the D-Backs are not the Yankees or Red Sox and the Mariners got away with their lack of situational hitting throughout the series. Then again, though, when you keep pitching well and playing good defense -- as the Mariners did today -- you position yourself to steal some wins. This lineup today didn't have a whole lot going for it, but Felix Hernandez, Garrett Olson and Mark Lowe kept things close on the scoreboard so that one dropped ball by Tony Clark was enough to separate vi...