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SEATTLE -- Seattle Mariners starter Felix Hernandez hasnt gotten to pitch in many truly meaningful games in his impressive career, having never been to the postseason, and that wont change Sunday afternoon.A game that looked like it might carry more weight than any of Hernandezs 358 previous starts became painfully, familiarly irrelevant when the Mariners lost to Oakland on Saturday night.That loss officially eliminated Seattle (86-74) from wild-card contention and led to another meaningless 162nd game of the season.Well play hard, disappointed Seattle manager Scott Servais said after Saturdays 9-8 loss to Oakland in a 10-inning classic. I expect us to win the ballgame. ... Well give a good effort, no doubt.But the Mariners are human, so forgive them if its hard to bounce back from an emotional game that effectively ended Seattles postseason hopes.It was a great run, slugger Nelson Cruz lamented after the loss. Ive played a lot of games (during an 11-year career), and it was an amazing run.Seattles final gasp came with two comebacks in the late innings. Cruz delivered a two-run homer that tied the score 7-7 in the seventh, then defensive replacement Ben Gamel came through with an RBI single to tie it again at 8-8 in the eighth.Only after Oaklands Joey Wendle pushed across the go-ahead run with an RBI double in the top of the 10th and the Mariners stranded Gamel on third base with a game-ending flyout did the never-say-die season take its final breath.We did everything we could to extend the season, Servais said afterward.The dramatic win didnt do anything for Oaklands postseason prospects -- the As have been out of realistic contention for most of the past few weeks -- but manager Bob Melvin said the way his young team was able to hold off the desperate Mariners was a good sign for the growth of a team in full rebuilding mode.This is really going to serve (the players) well in the future, knowing that they can play in this type of atmosphere, Melvin said.For Hernandez, whose spot in the rotation happened to line up with what may have been a make-or-break game in the season finale, its just another meaningless October start.The only time Hernandez has taken the mound this late in the season with chips still on the table came two years ago when he went into the final day of the year with a shot at giving Seattle a playoff berth and dominated for four innings.After the fourth, word got out that the As had just finished a playoff-clinching win in another part of the country, leaving Hernandez and the Mariners without any kind of incentive.Hernandez pitched another inning before coming off to a huge ovation in another lost season.This time around, he wont have nearly as much adrenaline. 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