Julio Rodriguez sparked Friday’s home-run barrage. Victor Robles soared to make one of the great catches in Seattle Mariners lore Saturday. J.P. Crawford capped a magical weekend in grand style on ESPN’s “Sunday Night Baseball” — a second-inning slam that powered the M’s to a three-game sweep over their archrivals in one of the defining regular-season series in franchise history.

A story told in three acts, the Mariners dismantled the Houston Astros at their own Daikin Park, flipping a script that for so long favored their Texas foes. It was a series that, barring the unthinkable, puts Seattle in the driver’s seat for its first American League West title since 2001. Six regular-season games remain, and the Mariners own a three-game division lead (and the head-to-head tiebreaker) thanks to

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