{"id":204845,"date":"2025-10-11T09:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T09:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/204845\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T09:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T09:26:11","slug":"ken-griffey-jr-makes-iconic-entrance-to-mariners-vs-tigers-alds-game-5-on-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/204845\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Griffey Jr. Makes Iconic Entrance to Mariners vs. Tigers ALDS Game 5 on Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Baseball Hall of Famer and Seattle Mariners legend Ken Griffey Jr. made an amazing entrance to T-Mobile Park to hype up his former team&#8217;s fans prior to Seattle&#8217;s winner-take-all Game 5 of the American League Division Series against the Detroit Tigers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Griffey played his first 11 MLB seasons (1989-1999) with the Mariners before closing his career with Seattle for his final two (2009-2010). The first-ballot Hall of Famer made 13 All-Star Games and won 10 Gold Gloves, seven Silver Sluggers and the 1997 American League MVP award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Griffey was phenomenal in the 1990s, posting a per-162 game average of 44 home runs and 126 RBI, per <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/griffke02.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Baseball-Reference<\/a>. He also hit .302 with a .965 OPS and led the American League in home runs in four of those swasons. The phenomenal fielder, who was known for his leaping catches at the wall to rob home runs, won a Gold Glove each year from 1990-1999.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Griffey is currently seventh all time in home runs (630), 17th in RBI (1,836) and 34th in runs scored (1,662).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Mariners notably made the playoffs (and the American League Championship Series) for the first time in franchise history in 1995 with Griffey leading the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">This year&#8217;s team won the AL West and gave itself a berth in the ALDS for the first time since 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baseball Hall of Famer and Seattle Mariners legend Ken Griffey Jr. made an amazing entrance to T-Mobile Park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-204845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}