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20 facts to celebrate Seattle’s drought ending

The Mariners have made the postseason.

That’s a sentence that hasn’t been written since 2001, saddling Seattle with the longest active playoff drought not only in MLB, but in any of the four major pro sports in North America. At least, it was active until Friday night, when the Mariners finally clinched a playoff berth. At long last, they’re no longer postseason-less in Seattle.

If you’re scoring at home, there were 47,057 regular-season games played from the start of 2002 through the 2021 season, including 3,138 Mariners contests. And Seattle missed out on participating in any of the 702 playoff games in that stretch.

Let’s celebrate the end of this span and put some context on what was (count ’em) 20 seasons between playoff appearances for Seattle. Here, then, are 20 facts, feats and figures that have happened in MLB from the start of the 2002 campaign through 2021.

7 stats and facts about Dodgers’ 109 wins

No National League team has won that many games since 1909, when the Pirates won 110.

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With three stolen bases on Friday, J.T. Realmuto became just the second catcher in AL/NL history to hit 20 homers and steal 20 bases in a season.

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Pennant Chase Baseball on MLB Network

League leaders and individual records are at stake, along with some teams’ postseason seeding. Tune in live for Orioles vs. Yankees at 1 p.m. ET, A’s vs. Mariners at 4, and Rockies vs. Dodgers joined in progress at 10.

Today’s Trivia Question

Which AL West team made the postseason the most during the Mariners’ drought from 2002-21?

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