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.
