Mariners end MLB's longest playoff drought: A look at what's happened to franchise since 2001

 At long last, the Seattle Mariners ended North American sports' longest postseason drought Friday, clinching an American League wild-card berth with a walk-off win to get back to the playoffs for the first time in 21 years.

That 2001 Mariners team – led by rookie MVP Ichiro Suzuki – won an MLB-record 116 games but lost to the New York Yankees in the ALCS for a second year in a row. Since then, Seattle hasn't played a postseason game.

The Mariners have come close through the years (staying in the race until the final game of 2021) but it's been a strange couple of decades in the Pacific Northwest, bereft of "SoDo Mojo."

Seattle managed to whiff on nearly every first-round pick for 15 years, their big acquisitions (Robinson Cano, Adrian Beltre) didn't pan out and it was just a steady stream of replacement level guys in and out of T-Mobile Park, née Safeco Field all these years.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2022/09/30/seattle-mariners-end-playoff-drought-clinch-wild-card-berth/8137011001/

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