SENATE RESOLUTION
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By Senators Schoesler, Boehnke, Chapman, Christian, MacEwen, Nobles, Pedersen, Riccelli, Robinson, Shewmake, Warnick, C. Wilson, Dozier, Goehner, Hasegawa, Krishnadasan, Lovelett, Lovick, Orwall, Saldaña, Short, Slatter, Valdez, Holy, Trudeau, Wellman, and Hunt
WHEREAS, The Seattle Mariners entered the 2025 Major League Baseball season with four American League West Division titles and five playoff appearances since the franchise began in 1977; and
WHEREAS, The Mariners lost two starting position players early in the 2025 season, right fielder Victor Robles and second baseman Ryan Bliss, with only Robles returning five months later; and
WHEREAS, Starting pitchers Logan Gilbert, George Kirby, and Bryce Miller missed many starts during the season due to injuries; and
WHEREAS, The absence of these talented players contributed to the Mariners having a 73-68 record as of September 5th and trailing the defending American League West Division champion Houston Astros by 3.5 games in the AL West standings; and
WHEREAS, The Mariners then went on a 10-game winning streak and won 17 of 18 games to finish the regular season with a 90-72 record and win the division title by three games; and
WHEREAS, Catcher Cal Raleigh finished the season with 60 home runs, 125 runs batted in, 110 runs scored, a .247 batting average and a .589 slugging percentage, as well as stellar defensive play to lead the Mariners to their first division title in 24 years; and
WHEREAS, The Mariners defeated the Detroit Tigers in an American League Divisional Series three games to two, capped by a 3-2 victory in 15 innings that ended on Jorge Polanco's bases loaded single that scored J.P. Crawford with the winning run before a sold-out and frantic T-Mobile Park crowd; and
WHEREAS, The Mariners and the Toronto Blue Jays split the first four games of the American League Championship Series; and
WHEREAS, Seattle trailed Toronto 2-1 entering the eighth inning of Game 5 at T-Mobile Park until Cal Raleigh hit a solo home run to tie the game, followed by a grand slam home run by third baseman Eugenio Suárez that gave the Mariners a thrilling 6-2 win and a 3-2 lead in the playoff series; and