The Seattle Mariners offense was unable to continue its dominant showing from game one of a three-game series against the Chicago White Sox on Friday and dropped the overall series.

The Mariners (19-22) won the first game of the series 12-8 on Friday and dropped the final two games by scores of 6-1 and 2-1 on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

Here are several takeaways from Seattle's series loss against Chicago:

In his second-to-last start against the Kansas City Royals on May 2, Mariners starting pitcher Emerson Hancock put together a career-best start: 14 strikeouts and one earned run allowed on six hits in seven innings pitched. The M's ultimately lost the game 3-2.

On Sunday, in the series finale against the White Sox, Logan Gilbert spun his best outing of the season so far. He fanned nine and allowed one hit in six innings of work.

Seattle's sole run came in the top of the first inning courtesy of an RBI single from left fielder Randy Arozarena. The Mariners had opportunities to tack on later in the game but couldn't.

The Mariners finished Sunday 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position and stranded nine. The White Sox only had two opportunities with runners in scoring position and left five on.

Seattle had the bases with one out in the top of the ninth. Second baseman Cole Young popped out and third baseman Brendan Donovan grounded out to leave the bases juiced to end the game.

The top half of Seattle's lineup (with the exception of Donovan) began the season slow, which led to a lot of poor offensive performances through the first 20 games of the season.

Center fielder Julio Rodriguez (slash line of .272/.337/.432), first baseman Josh Naylor (.255/.317/.383) and Arozarena (.279/.368/.415) have all started to pick things up since their slow starting.

The Mariners starting catcher and defending American League MVP finalist Cal Raleigh is still looking to hit his stride.

Raleigh, who missed three games against Kansas City and the Atlanta Braves from May 2-4, is hitless over his last eight games and has just two hits in his last 10 games. He went 0-for-12 in the series against Chicago with five strikeouts.

Raleigh is slashing .161/.244/.329 with a .573 OPS in 38 games this season and has hit four doubles and seven home runs with 18 RBIs.

Raleigh has never been a player who's hit for a high leverage but he's been able to balance a high amount of walks with his power numbers to be a consistent on-base threat throughout his career.

In 2025, Raleigh had a 13.8% walk rate, which ranked in the 95th percentile of major league hitters, per Baseball Savant. This year, his walk rate is down to 9.8%, which placed him in the 56th percentile of baseball.

Seattle high-leverage relievers, right-hander Matt Brash and left-hander Gabe Speier, are both currently on the 15-day injured list.

For the most part, the bullpen was able to weather the storm from Speier and Brash's respective absences, but the bullpen wasn't able to do much against the White Sox lineup.

The Mariners' relievers allowed a collective seven earned runs on 13 hits across the three-game series. Right-handed reliever Eduard Bazardo, normally steady in high-leverage spots, allowed the two game winning runs to the White Sox in the series finale Sunday.

Seattle will begin a four-game series against its American League West rivals, the Houston Astros, at 5:10 p.m. PT on Monday at Daikin Park in Houston.

Mariners starting pitcher Bryce Miller will make his season debut in game three of the series Wednesday after missing the entire year to this point due to a left oblique strain.

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