DID YOU KNOW?: The Seattle Mariners have the same number of playoff appearances in their 47-year history (five) as ruptured testicles suffered by their players. In 1980, Mariners pitcher Mike Parrott (pictured) took a comebacker off the bat of Minnesota SS Roy Smalley...directly in the stuff. Not to be out-done, in 1997 another Seattle pitcher, Josias Manzanillo stopped a Manny Ramirez liner with his cup. Ramirez claimed both of Manzanillo's marbles with one shot. By then, it seems that either there was a bounty on Mariners players giblets or they were inviting it. Because in 2009, 3B Adrian Beltre reportedly was not wearing a cup when Alexei Ramirez of the White Sox took a crack at him. Beltre must have pivoted just right to deflect the ball off just one of them, but left un-helmeted, that was bad enough. Beltre was a stud, though, and stayed in the game. And finally, if it weren't evident enough that this were some kind of weird contest among Mariners players, in 2019 outfielder Mitch Haniger took matters into his own umm...hands...and fouled off a pitch hitting himself in the lower Pacific Northwest.
Meanwhile the Mariners, 1995-2022 have three ALCS losses and two in the Division Series under their belts.
Meanwhile the Mariners, 1995-2022 have three ALCS losses and two in the Division Series under their belts.
