WHAT A NIGHT! WHAT A GAME! THE MARINERS ARE GOING TO THE ALCS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 24 YEARS!
In Mariners news…
- Your Seattle Mariners have officially advanced to the ALCS. The captain of our Lookout Landing ship, Kate Preusser, provided astute coverage of the game in her recap.
- The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network has immortalized the Rivas Rumble that tied the game , and gave the Mariners the chance they needed to go on to win it and advance.
- Here is Rick Rizzs call of the walk-off win that advanced the Mariners to the ALCS.
- It smelled like Seattle spirit last night, with the party lasting well into the night and many fans jamming out to, what else, Nirvana.
- Tom Verducci added his narration to the Mariners’ journey to an ALCS return decades in the making, and the hope of going to the Series.
- Kevin Gausman will start game one of the ALCS for the Blue Jays. The Mariners likely will go with “Bryce Miller and friends”.
- The Mariners flight has been delayed and they won’t arrive in Toronto until the evening.
- Josh Naylor loves the Seattle Kraken, and Seattle and the Kraken love Josh Naylor.
- Cal Raleigh torpedoed his way into the MVP conversation and cemented his legend as a Mariner, and along the way it was a torpedo bat that helped him get there. The creators behind the bats are passionate about the process, and are even still thinking of ways the design can be improved.
Around the league…
- Yankees outfielder Cody Bellinger is planning to opt out of his contract and will become a free agent.
- Mark Feinsand previewed the free agent market for Japanese slugger Munetaka Murakami, who is planning to come to the states from NPB this winter.
- Patrick Dubuque at Baseball Prospectus criticized MLB partners like Google for peppering us with stats in-game and during advertising that are mostly quite useless.
- Nick Gibson at Spokesman talked to John Vullo, a Newport local who is one of several producers of torpedo bats for MLB clubs.
- The Savannah Bananas are making a three-day stop in Tacoma in 2026.
- Additional players elect for free agency, including Abraham Toro, Donovan Walton, Leody Taveras, Erasmos Ramirez, and Devin Sweet.
A note from Bee, and the rest of the Lookout Landing staff:
Apologies for the delay in the Moose Tracks being posted. We love how passionate you all are about the Mariners, and of course, we are too. In our passions and our lives, in our celebrations and revelries, it can be all too easy to let some things slip. And so went the Moose Tracks this morning. Oops-a-doodle! Thank you all for your kindness, and your patience, and your passion, and our sincerest apologies for this post going up late. An extra special thanks goes out to regular site commenter MacDougall_Cats for posting a Mini Moose Tracks in the comments of Kate’s recap, which I admittedly heavily poached from to get this across the finish line.
