Seattle Mariners, Toronto Blue Jays and ALCS
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During Game 6's loss to the Blue Jays, the Mariners offense couldn't get it going because they couldn't stop hitting into double plays.
Pointing to the 2009 Yankees is instructive but misleading. With Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez and Mariano Rivera, that team could survive three errors and three GIDP because it paired run prevention depth with lineup length and innings coverage.
Cal Raleigh’s leadoff home run tied Game 5 of the American League Championship Series in the bottom of the eighth, and four batters later, Eugenio Suárez unleashed an opposite-field grand slam that lifted the Mariners to a 6-2 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays at T-Mobile Park.
The path to the promised land was always going to include a heavy dose of sky-high anxiety. This is the Mariners, after all, MLB’s only organization that’s never played in the World Series and whose fanbase specializes in stress.
The Mariners entered the 2025 season looking to erase the memory of 2024, when they not only coughed up the AL West to the Houston Astros yet again but also finished one game out of a Wild Card spot despite winning eight of their final 10 games to close the regular season.
Every game the Seattle Mariners play from this point forward is uncharted territory. Not only have the Mariners never been to the World Series, but they've neve
Three decades after “The Double” cemented his place in Mariners lore, Edgar Martinez is back in October again: this time as a coach, watching another generation of Seattle hitters try to finish what that 1995 team started.
The New York Yankees announced Sunday that former catcher Jesús Montero died at the age of 35. Montero started his MLB career in New York, which originally signed him in 2006. The Yanks traded him to the Seattle Mariners in 2012, and he spent four seasons in the Pacific Northwest.