The 2025 Seattle Mariners are finally division champions. For decades, Mariners fans have lived with the narrative that October baseball would always be just out of reach, that the AL West belonged to other dynasties while Seattle looked on from the outside. That script has been rewritten in emphatic fashion this season.
If you want to understand how the Mariners climbed to the top of the AL West for the first time in 24 years, you don’t need to comb through spreadsheets of advanced metrics. You only need to relive the moments that sent fans leaping from couches and barstools, jumping for joy at T-Mobile Park, and flooding social media.