{"id":229465,"date":"2025-10-21T13:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/229465\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T13:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:50:09","slug":"mariners-make-unique-sports-history-after-missing-world-series-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/229465\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners make unique sports history after missing World Series again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a devastating loss to the <a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/toronto-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> in game seven of the ALCS,<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/mlb\/seattle-mariners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> the Seattle Mariners <\/a>will, once again, have to wait at least one more season before attempting to reach the World Series.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To this point in the Mariners&#8217; franchise history, they have yet to make a World Series appearance and are the only MLB franchise to have never qualified for the Fall Classic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mariners on wrong side of sports history after elimination<\/p>\n<p>After being eliminated from the MLB playoffs this season, the 2025 World Series will mark the 48th Fall Classic since the Mariners became an MLB franchise in 1977.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/optastats\/status\/1980491300026663101?s=61\" rel=\"nofollow\">to OptaSTATS<\/a>,\u00a0no other MLB\/NBA\/NFL\/NHL franchise all-time has gone that long to begin the franchise&#8217;s history without reaching the championship round while remaining in the same city.<\/p>\n<p>The Mariners felt like game seven could be there before the seventh inning, where Blue Jays&#8217; George Springer put a charge into one for a go-ahead three-run home run that likely ripped the hearts out of everyone in Seattle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cal Raleigh and Julio Rodriguez both hit home runs for the Mariners, and both teams deployed their best pitchers throughout the game. However, once the Blue Jays took a 4-3 lead, Rogers Centre was rocking, and Toronto had all the momentum it needed to advance to the World Series.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More MLB news:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a devastating loss to the Toronto Blue Jays in game seven of the ALCS, the Seattle Mariners&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-229465","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229465","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=229465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}