HOUSTON – When he came to Seattle before the 2019 season, he was considered by many in Major League Baseball an underachieving prospect who couldn’t stay healthy with an attitude problem. The Mariners believed that a new team, a chance to be an every-day player and the freedom to be himself, would unlock his talent and turn him into a foundation piece of their rebuild.

In reality, J.P. Crawford needed the Mariners as much they needed him. That relationship will now take them back to the postseason for the second time together.

On Sunday night with a national TV audience watching on ESPN’s “Sunday Night Baseball,” the Mariners’ longest tenured player moved them a major step closer to winning the organization’s first American League West title since 2001.

Crawford’s grand slam off Astros

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