Pointing to the 2009 Yankees is instructive but misleading. With Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez and Mariano Rivera, that team could survive three errors and three GIDP because it paired run prevention depth with lineup length and innings coverage.

Cal Raleigh’s leadoff home run tied Game 5 of the American League Championship Series in the bottom of the eighth, and four batters later, Eugenio Suárez unleashed an opposite-field grand slam that lifted the Mariners to a 6-2 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays at T-Mobile Park.

An eighth-inning blast by Geno Suarez sent more than 46,000 fans into a frenzy and generated earthquake-like activity registered by the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network.

Raleigh's regular-season campaign was historic in its own right. The All-Star catcher led the Majors with 60 home runs, breaking MLB records for most home runs in a season by a primary catcher and a switch-hitter — and surpassing Mariners legend Ken Griffey Jr. for the franchise single-season mark.

Jesús Montero, a catcher and designated hitter over parts of five major league seasons with the New York Yankees and Seattle Mariners, died Sunday as a result of injuries he sustained in a vehicular collision in his native Venezuela earlier this month.

One win from their first World Series, the Seattle Mariners never got off the ground Sunday night. Seattle grounded into inning-ending double plays in three straight turns at bat and made a season-high three errors in a in a 6-2 loss that forced the American League Championship Series to Game 7.

With the Mariners battling the Toronto Blue Jays in the ALCS, we spoke to the directors of the team's unofficial documentary about why the M's are special.

During Game 6's loss to the Blue Jays, the Mariners offense couldn't get it going because they couldn't stop hitting into double plays.