CHICAGO -- The Seattle Mariners have not been to Wrigley Field in nearly a decade, but manager Scott Servais knows enough about the idiosyncrasies of the park and daytime baseball to give his team enough direction.After an ugly 12-1 loss Friday, the Mariners hope Servais knowledge translates into a win Saturday afternoon.Servais played for the Cubs from 1995-98 mostly sub-par years for Chicago except for a 1998 postseason appearance.I played here for three and a half years, Servais said. It was really the first time in my career I had the chance to play every day, probably because they didnt have anybody else when they traded for me.His best season with Chicago was in 1996 when he hit .265 with 11 home runs and 63 RBI over 129 games.This weekend is only Seattles second all-time and the Mariners have lost three of four meetings in Chicago. The Cubs took two of three from the Mariners in their last visit to Chicago from June 12-14, 2007.Servais will be giving a crash course in both Wrigley Field culture and big league baseball to the newest Mariner -- 25-year-old Cuban prospect Guillermo Heredia who was called upon Friday from Triple-A Tacoma.We want to get him comfortable, Servais said. Hes a guy who can come in and defend late in the game, pinch hit, pinch run, do those type of things. We will get him some starts eventually.Heredia did make his major league debut following Fridays 74-minute rain delay, settling in in right field in the bottom of the seventh. He also was 0-for-1 in his lone plate appearance.Heredia was pleased to get his first big league opportunity after spending 84 games between Double-A Jackson and Triple-A Tacoma.The biggest adjustment is the pitching, he said through a translator. Obviously its different than Cuba. Here they focus more on fastball, (and the) changeup. Thats the biggest thing.Heredia signed with the Mariners as a non-drafted free agent on March 1 after hitting .285 with 231 runs, 57 doubles, 15 triples, 23 home runs and 121 RBI in 374 career games in Cubas Serie Nacional.The Mariners will be hoping their bats can perform better than Friday and Wade Miley lasts longer than Hisashi Iwakauma. Iwakuma only lasted three innings and the Mariners will look for some distance from Miley, who has dropped six straight starts.Miley has a 5.13 ERA since his last win on June 7 against Cleveland but the Mariners have only scored six runs for him. Miley last pitched Sunday in Toronto when he allowed two runs and four hits in six innings of a 2-0 loss.Miley will be facing Cubs ace Jake Arrieta, who is 3-4 since his no-hitter on May 16. Arrieta, the 2015 NL Cy Young Award winner, has struggled since he completed a run of 20 consecutive victories including a no-hitter on May 16.He has gone 3-4 since and the Cubs are 0-4 in his last four starts while Arrieta has a 5.55 ERA in those games.Seattle batters dont see Arrieta on anything approaching a regular basis although the Cubs right-hander has had two previous outings against Seattle.He is 0-1 with a 4.63 ERA in three career starts against the Mariners but hasnt faced them since 2012 while with the Baltimore Orioles.In his last outing, Arrieta allowed four runs on five hits over six innings against the White Sox. Three of those runs occurred when he allowed a home run to Todd Frazier.Jake was really good except for the one pitch, Cubs manager Joe Maddon said. (The) three-run homer definitely did hurt us right there.The Cubs have won three straight and will be hoping to give Arrieta similar support as Jon Lester had Friday. 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With only three slots remaining, the jockeying for a shot at the championship could quickly turn cutthroat.Theres so much on the line, and only two races remaining to set the field. That means the teamwork that has worked so well for JGR this year may quickly be abandoned as every driver races with their own agenda.Were in a team business, but were also in a business to win for our sponsors and ourselves, said JGR driver Denny Hamlin.I think at the end, you have to do whats best for yourself.The crack started to show at JGR immediately after Johnson collected his ninth career victory at Martinsville . A tire problem had already dropped JGR driver Carl Edwards to last in the Chase field, but Hamlin, Matt Kenseth and Kyle Busch had cars capable of winning.But as the JGR cars ran nose-to-tail in the closing laps, Brad Keselowski slipped past them and grabbed second-place behind Johnson.Hamlin, Matt Kenseth and Kyle Busch are inside the top-four as the series heads to Texas Motor Speedway. But all was not well in the Gibbs camp after the race.Busch felt Hamlin finished the highest by holding up Kenseth and Busch in the waning laps. Although the teammates worked well together on restarts, Busch felt that Hamlin not getting out of the way allowed Johnson to win and Keselowski to finish second.We work so good together that we just gave the win to (Johnson). So, JGR all the way, Busch said. At the end, you had the slowest Gibbs car holding up the rest of the line, and all we did was let somebody else from another organization pass us and go up there and chase down (Johnson).Hamlin disputed Buschs view.I may have held those guys up for a little bit of that final run, but definitely dont think I was holding anyoone up at the end, for sure, Hamlin said.ddddddddddddThere have been times this season that JGR was the most dominant organization in the garage, and as they advanced all four Toyotas into this round of eight of NASCARs playoffs, it became a very real possibility they would roll into the final four. Of course, the odds were against a sweep. Johnson made it official.The driver in the most trouble is clearly Edwards, who had a strong car until a tire issue sent him hard into the wall. He had to go to the garage for repairs, finished 36th and is last in the Chase standings.Edwards said Goodyear officials told him the tire problem was related to a belt failure.Thats really big of them to say, `Hey, theres nothing you could have done about it, Edwards said. We had a really good race going and sometimes thats just what happens in racing. Now we just go to Texas and try to win there and Phoenix -- we could win at either one of those race tracks.Only problem? Johnson has won the last four November races at Texas Motor Speedway, and Kevin Harvick has won six of the last eight races at Phoenix International Speedway.Harvick likely needs another win there to make the finale after a rough day at Martinsville for Stewart-Haas Racing .Harvick and Kurt Busch finished 20th and 22nd and are both in the bottom half of the Chase standings. Danica Patrick and Tony Stewart, the two SHR drivers not in the Chase, finished 24th and 26th.We were slow all weekend, said Harvick. 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