Given the length of a Major League Baseball season — 162 games over a six-month span — the endless variances in performance from players and teams and the changes in personnel due to injury or attrition, the oft-used cliché — “it’s not only who you are playing but when you are playing them” is relied upon often by players, coaching staffs and front offices when analyzing schedules and results.

It certainly fits for the Seattle Mariners — the hottest team in the American League with a 9-1 record in their last 10 games — as they spend the next 10 days on the East Coast for a nine-game road swing over four cities.

Well, maybe three cities and the town of Williamsport, Pennsylvania.

“It’s time to take it on the road and just continue the momentum,” manager Dan Wilson said after their sevent

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