On my trip to Seattle in 2011, I stopped for a ballgame at Safeco Field, which has been renamed T-mobile Park in 2019. This stadium has a retractable roof and has served as the ballpark of the Seattle Mariners since 1999. There is a statue to Ken Griffey, Jr, outside the home plate entrance to the park. There are also bronze plaques to famous greats who played for Seattle, like Randy Johnson, Ken Griffey Jr, and Ichiro Suzuki.
The Seattle Mariners compete in the American League West. The Mariners are an expansion team established in 1977. This franchise has never won the World Series and have never captured the American League pennant. They are nicknamed the “M’s”, which they did use in earlier version of their logo.
The 2023 Mariners (88-74) are in that position of being good but not good enough to make the post season. Their rivals, in the AL West division Houston Astros and Texas Rangers, seemed to steal the playoff spots available, that would have been theirs if Seattle played a bit better in the last games of the season. Mariners get to watch as their division rivals, Astros and Rangers, make their postseason runs.
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