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Haniger is not in the lineup for Sunday's game against the Rangers, Ryan Divish of The Seattle Times reports.

Haniger started 71 of the last 72 games and has emerged as one of the Mariners top players this season. The 27-year-old has a .285/.366/.493 slash line with 26 home runs and 93 RBI entering the regular season finale. Guillermo Heredia leads off and will start in center field as the Mariners all but empty their bench Sunday.

Haniger went 2-for-4 with a double, a bases-loaded walk and a run in a win over the Rangers on Friday.

Haniger has been a revelation in the leadoff spot, as he's slashing .328/.385/.581 with 29 extra-base hits (19 doubles, two triples, eight home runs) and 20 RBI when hitting atop the order. The outfielder's ninth multi-hit effort of the month pushed his September average to .306, while his .365 on-base percentage for the season tops the Mariners and ranks 10th in the AL.

Haniger is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Rangers, Ryan Divish of The Seattle Times reports.

Haniger is slashing .450/.489/.775 with eight extra-base hits in his last 40 at-bats but has a planned off-day Sunday after starting the last 65 games. Guillermo Heredia will bat eighth and start in center field for the Mariners.

Haniger went 2-for-4 with an RBI double in a loss to the Angels on Sunday.

A day after smacking his second home run of September, Haniger served up his fifth consecutive two-hit effort as an encore. The hot-hitting outfielder has also driven in a run in four of the last five games, and nine of his 17 hits for the month have gone for extra bases (five doubles, two triples, two homers).

Haniger went 2-for-4 with a triple, a run and an RBI in Seattle's 5-4 loss to San Diego on Wednesday.

Seattle's second-half struggles can't be blamed on Haniger, who now has a .276/.361/.485 slash line to go along with 24 home runs and 86 RBI following this latest multi-hit effort. After an injury-shortened campaign last year that saw him post an .843 OPS, the 27-year-old has shown he's capable of sustaining that production across a full season in 2018 with a nearly-identical .841 mark over 546 at-bats.