Seattle Mariners

2022 - 10 - 1

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Mariners stay 1.5 games back from Blue Jays with win over Athletics (Sportsnet.ca)

Luis Castillo struck out eight in six innings of two-hit ball and the Seattle Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics 5-1 on Saturday to keep pace with the ...

He gave up three runs and three hits, striking out two and walking two before yielding to Sears to start the second. A near collision between outfielders Seth Brown and Capel on Torrens’ double in right-center helped Seattle start a rally for two more runs in the eighth. Athletics: Oller came off the 15-day injured list Friday from a bout of rib costochondritis, the swelling of cartilage between the ribcage and breast bone. .... The outing was great to end the year on.” He struck out six, walked two and gave up just two hits, both of which the A’s wiped away with double plays. They’ve got five more games – Sunday against the A’s and four games against the Detroit Tigers next week – to catch the Blue Jays and stay ahead of Tampa Bay. “I felt with him out on the mound and how the game was going, the way the crowd was into it today coming off last night, it was a nice, perfectly executed ballgame with a W behind it. He really set the tone today.” Using his slider in concert with a two-seam fastball, he was flawless the rest of the way, teaming with Carlos Santana for three putouts at first base. “It didn't matter what the pitch count was.” “And it’s a pitch he should probably lean on a little bit more. “He was really in total control of the game and I would say that was probably the most stress-free game that we’ve had here in quite some time,” Mariners manager Scott Servais said.

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What's next for Mariners after clinching a playoff spot (The Seattle Times)

After an emotional playoff-clinching night, the Mariners still have six regular-season games to play over the next five days. Here's what's at stake.

After winning Friday and Saturday, the Blue Jays host the Red Sox once more this weekend before wrapping up their season with three games in Baltimore against the recently eliminated Orioles. [through the Mariners’ website](https://www.mlb.com/mariners/tickets/postseason), but (pricey) tickets can be found already on secondary markets. On SeatGeek, tickets for a potential wild-card Game 1 in Seattle on Oct. The third game will only be necessary with a split between the first two. Following Saturday’s win, Seattle sits in the second wild card, a game and a half behind the Toronto Blue Jays and one game up on the Tampa Bay Rays. That’s why there’s still more to play for over the next four days.

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Seattle Mariners end two decades of misery returning to MLB ... (OPB News)

Baseball is fun again in the Pacific Northwest in a way that it hasn't been in more than two decades. Because of one stat, pitcher Matthew Boyd has become ...

They saw the SuperSonics leave and the Kraken arrive. “The thing about Seattle, Seattle loves baseball and really it’s a baseball city,” Boyd said. The goal is to win a World Series, not just end the drought.” That long drought has made Seattle a woebegone franchise, the butt of jokes. And while Seattle got close on several occasions, an entire generation of fans missed the postseason experience. Seattle will play in the wild-card round, potentially as the beneficiary of the postseason expansion that added a third wild-card team for each league. Michael Jordan was about to begin a two-year addendum to his career with the Washington Wizards. Baseball is fun again in the Pacific Northwest in a way that it hasn’t been in more than two decades. Cal Raleigh, sent to the minors because of struggles early in the season, [stepped up as a pinch-hitter and launched a game-winning solo home run](https://twitter.com/MLBNetwork/status/1576074551112654848?s=20&t=XamsxLcYSXRYCwyBaK8pHA) with two outs in the ninth inning on a 3-2 pitch to beat the Oakland Athletics 2-1. I wanted to go to the Kingdome every day. That he grew up on nearby Mercer Island and was 10 years old the last time Seattle reached the postseason. Not the stats on the back of his baseball card, mind you.

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Castillo K's 8 in final outing before WC start (MLB.com)

SEATTLE -- If last night felt like it's all becoming very real, consider that the next time Luis Castillo takes the mound after Saturday's dominant start ...

[Daniel Kramer](mailto:[email protected]) covers the Mariners for MLB.com. But Seattle’s bats immediately responded with a three-spot in the first that gave Castillo the cushion he needed to go scoreless over his final five innings. Yet in contrast to the uncertainty of the who, when and where next weekend, one certainty as the Mariners eye their first postseason game since 2001 is that they’ll be doing so behind their prized workhorse.

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There's at least one MLB fan base who would open-mouth kiss Rob ... (Deadspin)

Seattle Mariners clinch first postseason appearance in 21 years with a little help from MLB's new format.

They’re still jockeying for position among the other wild card teams (Toronto and Tampa Bay), and will play a best-of-five series against an opponent that’s within two or three games of them in the standings. Yet so did the fact that for a long time it’s been really hard to qualify for MLB’s postseason. While I understand the thought process, once football starts the rest of the sports calendar might as well be steamed cauliflower on a plate next to a well-cooked/seared NY strip. Clippers teams of the Donald Sterling era. It was the Mariners’ 86th win of the season, which is a number they’ve reached six times during this hiatus. It always felt cruel that the longest regular season of America’s four major pro sports also was the least rewarding.

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Seattle Mariners end longest playoff drought in American sports (Buffalo Rumblings)

I'm going to let you in on an unimportant secret: despite all appearances, football is not my favorite sport. That honor belongs to baseball, and last night ...

Watching the Mariners and their fans celebrate last night, I found myself thinking predominantly of Andy Dalton and Kyle Williams. [Buffalo Bills](https://www.buffalorumblings.com/) fans can certainly relate to. A pinch-hit, walk-off home run from catcher Cal Raleigh sent the

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What the world was like the last time the Seattle Mariners made the ... (For The Win)

The Seattle Mariners are playoff bound for the first time in 21 years. And what an epic entrance into the postseason it was, too.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s stone was the no. That means the last time the Mariners made the playoffs was in 2001. 1 movie in theaters at the time. So we thought it’d be fun to take a look back and see what the world was like the last time the Mariners made the playoffs. Yeah, that wasn’t a thing. There was no such thing as a smartphone back then. Since then, he’s smashed 664 balls out of the park. [there were 5,273](https://twitter.com/GeoffONeil/status/1575500973963083776?s=20&t=fRqY1ket58BX8PJlQe7QFg). [sealed the Mariners’ first playoff berth](https://ftw.usatoday.com/gallery/seattle-mariners-playoff-walkoff-home-run-cal-raleigh). You love to see it. And it’s almost certainly going to make you feel old, but it’ll also be a fun trip down memory lane. Just like Ichiro was a rookie sensation the last time the Mariners made the playoffs, Julio Rodriguez is a rookie sensation now.

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Seattle Mariners: Cal Raleigh makes history in playoff-clinching win (Call to the Pen)

On a night when the Seattle Mariners put an end to the longest postseason drought, catcher Cal Raleigh made some history of his own at the plate.

The Mariners are officially in the postseason, but there is still more work to do over the final six games of the regular season. That’s the third-highest mark this year for the Mariners behind Eugenio Suarez and Julio Rodriguez, who is still [Seattle Mariners](https://calltothepen.com/al-west/seattle-mariners/) who has shown plenty of pop all season, was called upon by manager Scott Servais to pinch hit with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning of Friday night’s home game against the Oakland A’s.

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