Raleigh's regular-season campaign was historic in its own right. The All-Star catcher led the Majors with 60 home runs, breaking MLB records for most home runs in a season by a primary catcher and a switch-hitter — and surpassing Mariners legend Ken Griffey Jr. for the franchise single-season mark.

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.

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.

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.

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.

An eighth-inning blast by Geno Suarez sent more than 46,000 fans into a frenzy and generated earthquake-like activity registered by the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network.

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 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