None of that stopped the Mariners from scrapping. J.D. Bleday tied it with a solo homer in the 4th, and Luke Raley's single briefly put Seattle back in front. It looked like exactly the kind of game the home team, sitting atop the AL West, needed to salvage.
Sal Stewart had other plans. His go-ahead 3-run homer in the 7th flipped a one-run game and held up the rest of the way, sending Cincinnati home with a series win in Seattle. Singer wasn't sharp all day but gutted out 6.2 innings with 6 strikeouts to get the decision, his 5th of the season.
The bigger picture cuts two different directions. Cincinnati is 47-54 and reportedly shopping arms and bats like Singer, Nathaniel Lowe, Tyler Stephenson and Eugenio Suárez ahead of the August 3 deadline, yet they just won a series against a first-place team. Seattle, at 51-52, is still in the thick of the AL West and wild-card picture, but dropping 2 of 3 to a team that's played like the worst in baseball since May is the kind of series that gets talked about if this comes down to the wire.