SEATTLE -- A Mariners team building for the future took time to peek into its past on Saturday night, though the question of the night appeared to be why no one looked at a review from the present.

After a retired Ichiro Suzuki was honored in a touching pregame ceremony, Félix Hernández put on his own throwback party with a strong seven-inning outing in Seattle’s 2-1 walk-off win against the White Sox at T-Mobile Park.

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The Mariners scored the game-winner in the 10th on a home run by Omar Narváez that appeared to hit the top of the right-field fence and come back in play, but was ruled a home run, as, apparently, the White Sox didn’t request a crew-chief review.

“Wild end to the game,” Mariners manager Scott Servais said. “I’m not quite sure what happened, to tell you the truth. They originally called it a home run and there was some discussion over by their dugout. He came over and said they were going to talk about an appeal on whether Omar touched home plate or not. I turned around and they called it a home run and he was safe and game over."

Narvaez’s homer came off White Sox reliever Alex Colome, the player he was traded for when the Mariners acquired him last November.

“Good for Omar,” Servais said. “That’s the way I look at it. Good for us. Huge hit in a big spot for him against his old team and we certainly needed it tonight.”

That said, the Mariners were only in position for that finish because Hernandez dug deep into his tank and pitched like the Felix of old rather than the old Felix that has been on display much of this season.

“The story of the game tonight was pitching, driven by the King,” Servais said. “Great outing by Felix Hernandez. That obviously is as good as we’ve seen him all year.”

Hernandez allowed just one run on five hits in an 87-pitch gem, with one walk and four strikeouts, but remained 1-6 with a 6.31 ERA in 13 starts in an injury-riddled season after turning a 1-1 tie over to his bullpen.

Coming off one of the worst starts of his career, having surrendered 11 runs (seven earned) in two-plus innings last Sunday in Houston, Hernandez pieced together his best start since April, with his King’s Court and the home crowd roaring.

“I needed that one so bad,” Hernandez said. “I feel really good. I was mixing all my pitches. My changeup is back, I had a good slider and good command of my fastball. That’s as good as it’s been in a while.”

The 33-year-old is in what figures to be the final days of his sterling 15-year career with the Mariners. With his seven-year, $175 million contract expiring at season’s end, Hernandez will be a free agent this winter and likely has just two remaining starts left in a Seattle uniform -- in Baltimore on Friday and Sept. 26 at home against the A’s, assuming the Mariners keep their current rotation plans intact.

Hernandez insisted he wasn’t thinking that this might have been one of his last starts in Seattle.

“Not yet,” he said. “Not yet. I can’t wait till my last one. I don’t know what’s going to happen after that. But I’m going to go out there and compete against anybody.”

Rookie second baseman Shed Long provided Hernandez a 1-0 lead with a solo homer to left-center in the fifth inning, but the White Sox tied it in the seventh with their lone tally off Hernandez.

The veteran right-hander nearly wiggled out of a bases-loaded jam in that frame, but second baseman Dee Gordon’s slight bobble of a slow roller from Zack Collins eliminated any shot at an inning-ending double play as the tying run crossed the plate.

That set the table for Narvaez’s game-winner, his first career walk-off homer and second career walk-off hit. When he saw the ball bounce up, he wondered if it was out, but was happy to see the umpires signal for him to circle the bases.

Has he seen a replay?

“I don’t want to,” he said with a smile. “If they call it a homer, it’s a homer.”