Mariners reward manager Servais

The Seattle Mariners will have some continuity in the managerial chair for a change.

Seattle signed Scott Servais to a multiyear contract extension Friday as the club opened the second half of the season in position to potentially end the longest current playoff drought in the four major pro sports.

Servais has led Seattle, which hasn’t been to the postseason since 2001, to a 59-39 record and a hold on the second AL wild-card spot.

“It’s about our players and how we prepare and how do we beat the opponent,” he said. “You constantly are trying to get better at this. I’d like to say I have it all figured out; far from it.”

Servais is 223-199 since arriving in Seattle in 2016, his first managerial job. The Mariners went 87-75 in Servais’ first season, before dipping to 78-84 last year amid injury issues. Servais, 51, previously worked in the front offices of the Angels and Rangers.

The deal is set to make Servais just the third manager to begin a fourth season in charge of the Mariners.

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