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It’s a day for the fans that made the “rally shoe” a thing watching last weekend’s memorable comeback in Game 2 of the wild-card series against Toronto. Years of angst and anger and lots and lots of losing, leaving an entire generation void of seeing postseason baseball.Īll of which will make Saturday a celebration no matter the circumstances facing the Mariners. Seattle went on to win 93 games in each of the next two seasons but neither time was it good enough to reach the playoffs.Īnd then the bottom dropped out of the franchise. At that time, the Mariners appeared to be a juggernaut with two straight appearances in the ALCS. Seattle lost 3-2 to the Yankees that day and never got another home game in the series losing to the Yankees in five games. It was Game 2 of the ALCS against the New York Yankees with the Mariners coming off a record-tying 116-win regular season. Seattle’s last home playoff game came on Oct. And from the moment it became clear Seattle wouldn’t host game in the wild-card series, the rallying cry became getting to the ALDS to ensure Mariners fans could once again experience the feel of postseason baseball. 30 thanks to Cal Raleigh’s walk-off home run.
Seattle snapped the longest playoff drought in the four major North American sports when it clinched one of the AL wild-card spots on Sept. This team really, somehow, we get wired, we get going when its loud here.” “I talked about it when we clinched, ended the drought, how valuable our fan base has been to this team. Because we certainly need it,” Seattle manager Scott Servais said. “The factor that I don’t think is getting talked about enough and I think it’s going to show up tomorrow on the first inning is when there’s 45,000 Mariner fans in the stands pumped and ready to go, and all behind us. Crawford, left, reacts in front of Houston Astros second baseman Jose Altuve, right, after his double during the third inning in Game 2 of an American League Division Series baseball game in Houston, Thursday, Oct. It’ll finally happen Saturday when the Mariners face Houston in Game 3 of the ALDS in what should be a cauldron of noise and energy.īut after a pair of agonizing losses to open the series in Houston, the Mariners will be playing for their postseason survival in the best-of-five series. Rodríguez was less than a year old the last time Seattle hosted a playoff game, highlighting the pain and longing for fans in these parts who have waited since 2001 to see their ballclub host a playoff game inside their ballpark. “I cannot wait to step on the field with them,” Seattle rookie Julio Rodríguez said on Friday. But unless the hometown team can find some late magic, it may just be a one-day cameo for this year. Twenty-one years later, playoff baseball is back in the Pacific Northwest. SEATTLE (AP) - There was bunting draped off the railings in October and logos painted on the grass of T-Mobile Park on Friday that were absent for the past two decades when the Seattle Mariners were stuck in baseball purgatory, left as a spectator every postseason.
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