Betting On Seattle Mariners Online

The Mariners weren’t Seattle’s first foray into Major League Baseball. Seattle’s pilot project was cancelled after just one season. The Seattle Pilots were an American League expansion franchise that entered the league in 1969, finishing 64-98 and last in the six-team division.

Seattle’s Sick’s Stadium was living up to its name, simply not up to snuff as a big league ballpark and on April 1, 1970, the Pilots declared bankruptcy, paving the relocation of the team to Milwaukee, where they became the Brewers.

The state of Washington sued the American League for breach of contract and the Mariners would bring baseball back to Seattle in 1977, also as an American League expansion team.

As a West Coast team, the Mariners will play plenty of games outside of their time zone and it’s always good where they are coming from when arriving to play an eastern ballclub.

You can divide the history of the Seattle Mariners into two distinct eras. From their birth in 1977 into the 1999 American League season, the Mariners called the Kingdome home. As its name implies, it was a domed stadium, a concrete monolith that was the standard for stadium construction during that era.

On July 15, 1999, the Mariners moved into Safeco Field, an outdoor facility more in the modern-retro mix that has become popular in the last two decades. It also features a retractable roof to combat the damp climate of the area and prevent any chance of rain delays or rainouts spoiling a day at the ballpark.

In 2008, the Mariners lost 101 games. They were the first team to lose 100 games in Major League Baseball that season, and the first team to be officially eliminated from the playoff race. Living proof that money can’t buy happiness, the Mariners also made a bit of ignonimus baseball history that season, becoming the first team to lose 100 games with a payroll of $100 million.