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The Seattle Mariners slept walk through seven innings against the New York Yankees on Monday night, but rallied with four runs in the ninth inning to pull off the stunning win. As we do after every game, heres how it happened:

Coming off a huge comeback win against the Yankees on Monday night, the Mariners look to game two of the series. As we do before every game, heres a rundown of everything you need to know:

To turn things around, the pitching staff has to get completely healthy — because it’s tough to see this lineup hitting the ball (or catching it) at a pennant-chase level. And then, obviously, the pitchers have to be awesome.

There is flurry of speculation, all of a sudden, that the Mariners actually have noticed that they have no third baseman — and that they’re considering tossing out a bid for the free agent Gold Glover. It would mean, among other things, that Jerry Dipoto must negotiate with Scott Boras, who lowers the price for any of his clients once each millennium.

We know a pitching staff can carry you to a championship. I wonder if it could happen in Seattle.

In any event, you can probably stop making fun of Dipoto and Hollander. Right now, they have a more reliable lineup (injuries permitting) and overall, an improvement on last year’s strikeout artists, who racked up the second-most whiffs in MLB.

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Eventually, it will play out. We might even learn the name of Ohtani’s dog.

Maybe Stanton will have a sudden urge to host the World Series and change the finances, but don’t count on it. For what it’s worth, I still believe you’ll see an exciting team next spring — and maybe, maybe, maybe a playoff team, if Dipoto trades and spends wisely. Beyond that, no promises.

Sometime in the next two weeks, I suspect, we’ll get an idea how the Mariners plan to map out their future.