A view of T Mobile Field in Seattle home of the Seattle Mariners. The M’s are geographically the furthest than other Major League team (AP file photo)

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Amaury Pi-González

The Seattle Mariners travel the most air miles in MLB due to their isolated geographic location in the Pacific Northwest. Being geographically separated from all other American League West opponents requires longer flights for every road trip to the rest of the continental United States. When the Mariners have to come to Oakland to face the Oakland A’s, they have to fly 670 miles; now, when they visit the A’s in Sacramento, they fly 605 miles, with Sacramento now (temporarily the closest team for the Mariners.

For many years since their beginning in 1977, the Mariners have flown more miles than any other team in baseball, but they are still looking for that elusive World Series title. During the 2025 MLB season, the Seattle Mariners won the AL West with a 90-72 regular-season record and advanced to the American League Championship Series (ALCS). They were ultimately eliminated in the ALCS, falling to the Toronto Blue Jays 4-3.

I am sure they would love to fly to the Moon to be in a World Series. The Seattle Mariners are the only active Major League Baseball team that has never played in the World Series. Would 2026 be the year? Today, during the All-Star Break, the Mariners have a 48-49 record, lingering in the middle of the pack of a crowded American League West. With 65 games left, the team from the Emerald City is again positioned to win their division. Will the 90 wins they ended last season be enough? They only need to win 17 of the next 65 games; it looks very achievable. One thing is certain,, nobody traveled so many miles to look for victories than the Mariners.

For years (during each year), I traveled between San Francisco and Seattle to call games for both teams at their respective parks. I live in the Bay Area, but I’ve always loved Puget Sound/Seattle and the Pacific Northwest, and I was introduced to it long before I started working in baseball. I was on active duty in the US Army at Fort Lewis, Washington, just 10 miles from Tacoma, where the Tacoma Rainiers are still a Triple-A affiliate of the Seattle Mariners, and I used to attend some of their games when I had a three-day pass from my CO at base Ft Lewis.

The San Francisco Giants and the Seattle Mariners will open the final portion of the 2026 season with a three-game series at T-Mobile Park in Seattle on Friday, July 17. Mariners, still in the race, are expected to be buyers, while the Giants, with a close-to-impossible task of making the postseason, will be sellers.

Quote: They invented the All-Star Game for Willie Mays     -Ted Williams.

Amaury Pi-Gonzalez – Cuban-born Pi-González is one of the pioneers of Spanish-language baseball play-by-play in America. Began as Oakland A’s Spanish-language voice in 1977 ending in 2024 (interrupted by stops with the Giants, Mariners and Angels). Voice of the Golden State Warriors from 1992 through 1998. 2010 inducted in the Bay Area Radio Hall of fame.

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