2000 Seattle Mariners Season
The Seattle Mariners' 2000 season was the franchise's 24th, and ended with the Mariners losing the American League Championship Series to the New York Yankees in 6 games.
The regular season ended with the Mariners finishing 2nd in the American League West but earning the franchise's first wild card berth, with a record of 91-71. In the playoffs, they swept the Chicago White Sox in the American League Division Series before being defeated by the Yankees.
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Famous quotes containing the words seattle, mariners and/or season:
“I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far as Seattle before his crime was discovered.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“Ye Mariners of England
That guard our native seas!
Whose flag has braved a thousand years
The battle and the breeze!”
—Thomas Campbell (1774–1844)
“Life contracts and death is expected,
As in a season of autumn.
The soldier falls.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)