Miguel Vargas leads the Chicago White Sox into a contest against the Seattle Mariners, after his two-homer performance in a 6-1 victory over the Mariners, starting at 2:10 p.m. ET on Sunday. Logan Gilbert (2-3, 4.30 ERA) will start for the Mariners, who are 19-21 this season and second in the AL West. Davis Martin (5-1, 1.64 ERA) is starting for the White Sox, who are 18-21 and third in the AL Central.

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Injury reports

Mariners

Will Wilson: 10 Day IL (Thumb), Victor Robles: 10 Day IL (Pectoral), Patrick Wisdom: 10 Day IL (Oblique), Gabe Speier: 15 Day IL (Shoulder inflammation), Bryce Miller: 15 Day IL (Oblique), Matt Brash: 15 Day IL (Lat), Logan Evans: 60 Day IL (Arm), Carlos Vargas: 60 Day IL (Lat), Miles Mastrobuoni: 60 Day IL (Calf), Cal Raleigh: day-to-day (Undisclosed)

White Sox

Austin Hays: 10 Day IL (Calf), Everson Pereira: 10 Day IL (Shoulder), Kyle Teel: 10 Day IL (Hamstring), Tanner Murray: 60 Day IL (Shoulder), Prelander Berroa: 60 Day IL (Elbow), Ky Bush: 60 Day IL (Elbow), Mike Vasil: 60 Day IL (Elbow), Brooks Baldwin: 60 Day IL (Elbow), Drew Thorpe: 60 Day IL (Elbow), Andrew Benintendi: day-to-day (Neck)

Stats to know

• Seattle’s Randy Arozarena has hit three home runs this season. He has also tallied 12 RBIs and has scored 26 runs. In 167 plate appearances, he has recorded a .278 BA, .365 OBP and .417 SLG with a 10.2% walk rate and a 23.4% strikeout rate. He has been effective on the base paths, recording nine steals on 10 attempts.
• In 174 plate appearances, Julio Rodriguez is hitting .272/.339/.430 with a .769 OPS and three steals on five attempts. He has hit six long balls, driven in 18 runs and scored 20 times.
• Chicago’s Vargas is slashing .228/.369/.471 this season with nine home runs (20th in MLB), 21 RBIs and an OPS of .840. He has a 16.7% strikeout rate and a 16.7% walk rate in 168 plate appearances, and he has scored 28 total runs. Vargas has recorded six steals on six attempts.
• In 169 plate appearances, Munetaka Murakami has posted a 34.9% strikeout rate and a 17.2% walk rate while slashing .230/.361/.561 with 15 home runs (1st in MLB), 29 RBIs (7th in MLB) and 28 runs scored.

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PHILADELPHIA — Ultimately, it didn’t alter the final result. Alex Bump’s tying goal in the third period of Game 4 of the Philadelphia Flyers’ second-round playoff series with the Carolina Hurricanes on Saturday at Xfinity Mobile Arena helped force overtime, but Jackson Blake’s conversion from the slot at 5:31 of the extra period ended the Flyers’ season anyway. The Hurricanes completed the sweep with a 3-2 win.

Bump’s third period still provided the 22-year-old with a lesson for the future, however. Just before his goal — set up by a brilliant play by Travis Konecny behind the net — Bump was responsible for letting Logan Stankoven get behind him on a Carolina rush. An open Stankoven easily slammed home a pass from Taylor Hall at 4:13, giving the Hurricanes a 2-1 lead.

“You can’t take a stride off, they make you pay,” Bump said. “I think I took a stride off. I just kind of knew I had to go do something after that.”

That he did just moments later at 5:52 was exactly what coach Rick Tocchet and everyone else in the organization wanted to see.

In many ways, it’s what this whole playoff run was about.

Yes, the Flyers were outclassed by the Hurricanes in four straight games, two of which required overtime. The young team also gained some first-hand knowledge of what it will take to beat a team like Carolina in the future. That sequence with Bump was just one example of what this baby-faced Flyers group can file away in their collective minds for next season, and beyond.

“Be proud of what they’ve done. And then, what it’s going to take to get to where we want to go,” Tocchet said when asked what he wants his group to take away from the last four weeks. “Perfect example is Bumper — he makes a mistake on the second goal, he gets the tying goal. That’s the stuff you want to see. He’s not on the bench sulking. He knew he made the mistake. He goes out there, bang, it’s in the net. That’s the growth you like to see.”

Still, the disappointment in the home dressing room after the game was real. Tocchet said before the series that he rejected the idea of his team playing with house money, a term that so many on the outside were applying, considering the Flyers weren’t supposed to be here so soon in their rebuild.

But they were, so they might as well try to take advantage of an opportunity that doesn’t always come along, Tocchet figured.

“Tocc was telling us, don’t take this for granted because you just don’t know when the next opportunity is going to come, because it’s a privilege to play a playoff game,” Dan Vladar said.

Their dream of an even deeper run was cut short by a Carolina team that is on an incredible 8-0 roll, resulting in some raw emotion in the immediate aftermath of the Game 4 loss.

“It’s a tough pill to swallow right now,” captain Sean Couturier said. “We really believed that we had a chance. It’s tough right now. At the same time, proud of the way this team battled to the end. There was no quit. For a young team like us, it’s a great experience.”

The Flyers did seem to acknowledge after the game that Carolina was the better team, if losing four straight weren’t enough evidence. Not only were the Hurricanes more rested, thanks to their sweep of the Ottawa Senators in the first round, but they also were healthier and more experienced, too.

Not having Owen Tippett in the lineup at any point in the series was a gigantic loss for the Flyers, and when third-line center Noah “Mr. Versatility” Cates came out after two games with a lower-body injury, it made the matchup on paper even more glaringly one-sided. Others, such as Christian Dvorak, were playing hurt as well, Tocchet said earlier in the series.

“We squeezed as much juice (as we could) from this team,” Tocchet said. “I can’t ask for more. We hung in there. That’s a good hockey team over there. They roll four lines; they were flying. We’ve got some guys banged up — broken ribs, all that sort of stuff. They gave it all.”

“A bunch of guys played through injuries, so obviously we weren’t in the best spot,” Vladar said. “All of a sudden we play Carolina, who is well rested and a very good team. It wasn’t easy. We can say (two games went to) overtime, but at the same time they were honestly a better team than us.”

In what could be viewed as a desperate move, the Flyers made some lineup changes ahead of Game 4, putting defenseman Oliver Bonk and forward Jett Luchanko in for Emil Andrae and Matvei Michkov, respectively, to make their NHL playoff debuts. While Michkov’s second playoff absence as a healthy scratch will surely generate more chatter as the Flyers enter the offseason, despite his being arguably their least effective forward throughout the playoffs, the Flyers had plenty of chances to score more than the two goals they ended up with in Game 4.

“We talked as a staff, and we just wanted to get some speed in there,” Tocchet said of the lineup changes, without specifying whether it was just the coaching staff or if there was front office influence, as well.

Regardless of where the Michkov story goes — and that’s sure to be a major offseason talking point — there are other young players on the team who should conceivably get better, particularly now that they’ve seen what it takes to go up against a legitimate Stanley Cup contender.

“I’ve been in that situation as a player — it makes you hungry in the summer,” Tocchet said. “It makes you know, what do I got to work on next year? Whether I’ve got to work on my shot, or my skating — you’re in these games, and you want to be at your best. That’s what I think these guys are going to learn. It’s going to be even harder, which is great. And they got a taste of it.”

“I love that the guys got a little taste of the playoffs this year,” Konecny said. “See what the fans are like, see what it’s like playing in this city in the postseason. Keep guys hungry for the offseason, for sure.”

They also felt some love immediately after it was over. As the Flyers poured off the bench to console Vladar — who was their best player in the playoffs, posting a .922 save percentage and 2.18 goals-against average in 10 games — the capacity crowd saluted them with a boisterous standing ovation. The Flyers’ surge down the stretch just to get into the playoffs, along with a first-round series win over the hated (by the fans, anyway) Pittsburgh Penguins, as well as intriguing young players such as Bump, Porter Martone, Denver Barkey, Trevor Zegras and others having an impact, “puts us on the map a little bit,” Tocchet said.

“I was just talking to (Flyers president of hockey operations Keith Jones), saying, ‘Man that was awesome to hear the fans cheer the guys on,’” Tocchet said. “That’s a good thing for the guys to understand this summer.”

It certainly resonated with Bump.

“It’s been super cool,” he said. “Me and (Barkey) were just talking about it on the ice when we were getting that standing O, just how much it means to the fans and how much more it’s going to make us work harder to try and do something for (them).”

The hope is that this is just the beginning of something bigger.

“We understand what’s happening, we understand the talent we have, we understand what we’re doing, and where we’re headed,” Konecny said.