10 stats from Seattle’s remarkable comeback

SAN DIEGO — With the Mariners trailing the Padres 12-2 after five innings at Petco Park on Thursday night, it seemed as if San Diego was set to cruise to back-to-back wins over Seattle, just two days after losing, 16-4, at Safeco Field.

Instead, the Mariners turned a run-of-the-mill rout into a historic comeback — and it only took two innings. Here are 10 facts and figures from the madness that was the Mariners’ 10-run comeback in their 16-13 win:

• Thursday’s game marked the largest deficit overcome in club history for the Mariners, whose previous record came on April 15, 1996, against the Angels. In that game, the Angels led the Mariners, 9-1, after the top of the fourth, but Seattle came back to win, 11-10.

• On the other side of things, this was the largest lead relinquished in a Padres loss in club history — coming just after the Friars had scored 10 or more runs in back-to-back games at Petco Park for the first time in franchise history.

• The Mariners are the first team to win a game in which they trailed by at least 10 runs after at least five innings, since the Indians did so in 2001. The team that Cleveland pulled that off against? The Mariners, in the biggest come-from-behind win on record.

• After the fifth inning, the Padres had a 99.9 percent chance to win the game according to …

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