| Seattle Mariners Awesomeseating.com is your go-to broker for MBL tickets. Whether you’re looking for cheap seats in the bleachers, a luxury sky-box or something closer to the infield, we’re your Awesome ticket broker for Seattle Mariners tickets for the regular season and Seattle Mariners postseason tickets. The Seattle Mariners entered the American League West Division as a 1977 expansion franchise. Along with the Texas Rangers and Washington Nationals (previously the Montreal Expos), the Mariners are one of the 3 MLB franchises to have never won a league championship, much less a World Series. The Mariners have appeared in the postseason 4 times. The first time was the strike-shortened 1995 season, when the team came from 19 games back to tie the California Angels with identical 79-66 regular season records. The Mariners then took the division title in a one-game tie breaker they won by a decisive 9-1 score. In the playoffs they eliminated the New York Yankees in the divisional round but lost in 6 to the Cleveland Indians in the American League Championship Series. The club finished first in the West again in 1997 (lost the ALDS in 4 to the Baltimore Orioles) and 2001, when they tied the all-time baseball record for most wins in a regular season with 116. The previous year the Mariners had made it to the postseason as a wild card team, swept the Chicago White Sox in the ALDS and then lost the ALCS to the New York Yankees in 6. Despite the record-setting 2001 regular season, the team would do no better in the playoffs than they had in 2000. After taking knocking off the Cleveland Indians in the first round the Mariners again fell to the Yankees in league championship round. Expectations were high for the club going into the 2008 season. In 2007 the team had finished the regular season with a respectable .543 winning percentage (88-74), good enough for 2nd place in the division behind the Los Angeles Angels. Going into the 2008 season expectations were high. But in one of those inexplicable seasons, the 2008 Seattle Mariners lost a 101 games, finishing with a 61-101 regular season record, dead last in the American League and second worst in MLB. During the awful season manager John McLaren was fired and replaced by Jim Riggleman. At the end of the season GM Bill Bavasi was also released. In the off-season significant moves on the field were made as well and Seattle Mariners fans can take comfort in the knowledge that 2009 will almost certainly be an improvement over 2008. The Seattle Mariners are in the 4-team West Division of the 14-team American League of 30-team Major League Baseball. Awesomeseating.com offers cheap tickets and luxury tickets for all MLB teams. We have Seattle Mariners and MLB postseason tickets as soon as the playoff situation finalizes. Buy your cheap tickets to Seattle Mariners baseball from Awesomeseating.com, your trusted ticket broker right now. |