1996 Seattle Mariners season

1996 Seattle Mariners
1996 Seattle Mariners
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Division	Western Division
Ballpark	Kingdome
City	Seattle, Washington
Record	85–76 (.528)
Owners	Hiroshi Yamauchi; (represented by John Ellis)
Managers	Lou Piniella
Television	KIRO-TV 7; Prime Sports NW
Radio	KIRO 710 AM; (Dave Niehaus, Rick Rizzs,; Ron Fairly)

The Seattle Mariners 1996 season was their 20th season, and the team was the runner-up in American League West, with a record of 85–76 (.528), 4½ games behind the champion Texas Rangers. The Mariners led the majors in runs (993), doubles (335), runs batted in (954), and slugging percentage (.484), but the pitching staff had the highest earned run average (5.21) in team history. Four Mariners scored at least 100 runs and four drove in at least 100 runs.^[1]

Offseason

November 29, 1995: Mike Blowers was traded by the Mariners to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Willis Otañez and Miguel Cairo.^[2]
January 23, 1996: Aaron Small was selected off waivers by the Mariners from the Florida Marlins.^[3]
January 29, 1996: Aaron Small was selected off waivers from the Mariners by the Oakland Athletics.^[3]
March 25, 1996: Ricky Jordan was purchased by the Mariners from the California Angels.^[4]

Regular season

Season standings

v t e AL West	W	L	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
Texas Rangers	90	72	0.556	—	50–31	40–41
Seattle Mariners	85	76	0.528	4½	43–38	42–38
Oakland Athletics	78	84	0.481	12	40–41	38–43
California Angels	70	91	0.435	19½	43–38	27–53

Record vs. opponents

1996 American League record v t e Sources: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
Team	BAL	BOS	CAL	CWS	CLE	DET	KC	MIL	MIN	NYY	OAK	SEA	TEX	TOR
Baltimore	—	7–6	6–6	4–8	5–7	11–2	9–3	9–3	7–5	3–10	9–4	7–5	3–10–1	8–5
Boston	6–7	—	8–4	6–6	1–11	12–1	3–9	7–5	6–6	7–6	8–5	7–6	6–6	8–5
California	6–6	4–8	—	6–6	4–9	6–6	4–8	7–5	4–8	7–6	6–7	5–8	4–9	7–5
Chicago	8–4	6–6	6–6	—	5–8	10–3	7–6	6–7	6–7	6–7	5–7	5–7	8–4	7–5
Cleveland	7–5	11–1	9–4	8–5	—	12–0	7–6	7–6	10–3	3–9	6–6	8–4	4–8	7–5
Detroit	2–11	1–12	6–6	3–10	0–12	—	6–6	4–8	6–6	5–8	4–8	6–6	4–9	6–7
Kansas City	3–9	9–3	8–4	6–7	6–7	6–6	—	4–9	6–7	4–8	5–7	7–5	6–6	5–8
Milwaukee	3–9	5–7	5–7	7–6	6–7	8–4	9–4	—	9–4	6–6	7–5	4–9	6–7	5–7
Minnesota	5–7	6–6	8–4	7–6	3–10	6–6	7–6	4–9	—	5–7	6–7	6–6	7–5	8–5
New York	10–3	6–7	6–7	7–6	9–3	8–5	8–4	6–6	7–5	—	9–3	3–9	5–7	8–5
Oakland	4–9	5–8	7–6	7–5	6–6	8–4	7–5	5–7	7–6	3–9	—	8–5	7–6	4–8
Seattle	5–7	6–7	8–5	7–5	4–8	6–6	5–7	9–4	6–6	9–3	5–8	—	10–3	5–7
Texas	10–3–1	6–6	9–4	4–8	8–4	9–4	6–6	7–6	5–7	7–5	6–7	3–10	—	10–2
Toronto	5–8	5–8	5–7	5–7	5–7	7–6	8–5	7–5	5–8	5–8	8–4	7–5	2–10	—

Game log

1996 Game Log: 85–76 (Home: 43–38; Away: 42–38)

March: 1–0 (Home: 1–0; Away: 0–0)

April: 15–10 (Home: 8–5; Away: 7–5)

May: 12–14 (Home: 8–9; Away: 4–5)

June: 14–12 (Home: 5–5; Away: 9–7)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
53	June 1	Red Sox	5–6	Wakefield	Milacki (1–2)	Slocumb	34,822	28–25
54	June 2	Red Sox	3–1	Wolcott (4–5)	Clemens	Jackson (2)	47,540	29–25
55	June 4	@ Indians	10–7	Carmona (2–0)	Mesa	Charlton (7)	42,179	30–25
56	June 5	@ Indians	5–13	Plunk	Milacki (1–3)	—	42,274	30–26
57	June 6	@ Indians	5–2	Wells (5–1)	Martinez	Charlton (8)	42,236	31–26
58	June 7	@ Royals	5–9	Valera	Wolcott (4–6)	—	20,891	31–27
59	June 8	@ Royals	8–12	Appier	Milacki (1–4)	Montgomery	30,022	31–28
60	June 9	@ Royals	3–2	Hitchcock (5–2)	Gubicza	Charlton (9)	20,489	32–28
61	June 10	@ Twins	6–13	Aldred	Wagner (0–1)	Trombley	17,134	32–29
62	June 11	@ Twins	18–8	Wells (6–1)	Aguilera	Hurtado (2)	14,395	33–29
63	June 12	@ Twins	5–3	Wolcott (5–6)	Radke	Charlton (10)	15,830	34–29
64	June 14	White Sox	1–4	Alvarez	Hitchcock (5–3)	Hernandez	30,163	34–30
65	June 15	White Sox	8–6 (12)	Carmona (3–0)	McCaskill	—	47,042	35–30
66	June 16	White Sox	7–6	Wells (7–1)	Magrane	Jackson (3)	34,588	36–30
67	June 18	Blue Jays	3–11	Guzman	Wolcott (5–7)	—	25,912	36–31
68	June 19	Blue Jays	2–9	Hanson	Harikkala (0–1)	—	26,265	36–32
69	June 20	@ White Sox	8–5	Hitchcock (6–3)	Tapani	Charlton (11)	23,017	37–32
70	June 21	@ White Sox	12–2	Wagner (1–1)	Magrane	—	23,253	38–32
71	June 22	@ White Sox	4–2	Wells (8–1)	Fernandez	Charlton (12)	27,036	39–32
72	June 23	@ White Sox	6–7 (10)	McCaskill	Guetterman (0–2)	—	26,768	39–33
73	June 25	@ Blue Jays	7–8	Crabtree	Charlton (2–2)	—	31,420	39–34
74	June 26	@ Blue Jays	5–6	Ware	Ayala (0–1)	Crabtree	30,158	39–35
75	June 27	@ Blue Jays	9–1	Wells (9–1)	Quantrill	—	31,108	40–35
76	June 28	Rangers	19–8	Carmona (4–0)	Pavlik	—	34,413	41–35
77	June 29	Rangers	5–9	Oliver	Meacham (0–1)	—	37,556	41–36
78	June 30	Rangers	4–3	Hitchcock (7–3)	Witt	Charlton (13)	33,392	42–36

July: 16–12 (Home: 8–6; Away: 8–6)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
79	July 1	Athletics	4–6	Wengert	Wagner (1–2)	Taylor	18,166	42–37
80	July 2	Athletics	6–11	Mohler	Charlton (2–3)	—	19,632	42–38
81	July 3	Athletics	4–3	Ayala (1–1)	Reyes	—	36,619	43–38
82	July 4	@ Rangers	9–5	Carmona (5–0)	Henneman	—	46,668	44–38
83	July 5	@ Rangers	6–3	Hitchcock (8–3)	Witt	—	46,397	45–38
84	July 6	@ Rangers	9–5	Wagner (2–2)	Gross	—	46,458	46–38
85	July 7	@ Rangers	3–8	Hill	Wells (9–2)	—	36,933	46–39
86	July 11	Angels	5–4 (12)	Carmona (6–0)	Monteleone	—	25,949	47–39
87	July 12	Angels	7–6 (10)	Ayala (2–1)	McElroy	—	29,618	48–39
88	July 13	Angels	4–6	Boskie	Ayala (2–2)	Percival	37,792	48–40
89	July 14	Angels	8–0	Wells (10–2)	Grimsley	—	33,243	49–40
90	July 15	@ Athletics	5–1	Wolcott (6–7)	Telgheder	—	11,183	50–40
91	July 16	@ Athletics	5–12	Chouinard	Hitchcock (8–4)	—	15,206	50–41
92	July 17	@ Athletics	6–7	Corsi	Minor (0–1)	Taylor	14,387	50–42
93	July 18	@ Angels	15–3	Meacham (1–1)	Boskie	—	22,780	51–42
94	July 19	@ Angels	4–9	Grimsley	Wells (10–3)	—	23,332	51–43
95	July 20	@ Angels	4–5	Schmidt	Charlton (2–4)	Percival	31,759	51–44
96	July 21	@ Angels	6–2	Hitchcock (9–4)	Abbott	—	22,088	52–44
97	July 22	Brewers	8–3	Wagner (3–2)	Mercedes	—	40,555	53–44
98	July 23	Brewers	3–7	Karl	Carmona (6–1)	—	22,378	53–45
99	July 24	Brewers	8–7	Ayala (3–2)	Fetters	—	19,899	54–45
100	July 25	Tigers	4–7 (10)	Lima	Ayala (3–3)	—	19,949	54–46
101	July 26	Tigers	6–4	Hitchcock (10–4)	Sager	Jackson (4)	25,175	55–46
102	July 27	Tigers	13–7	Davis (1–2)	Williams	—	43,209	56–46
103	July 28	Tigers	6–14	Olivares	Bosio (3–3)	—	38,204	56–47
104	July 30	@ Brewers	6–5	Wells (11–3)	Eldred	Ayala (1)	—	57–47
105	July 30	@ Brewers	3–4	Van Egmond	Wolcott (6–8)	Fetters	18,591	57–48
106	July 31	@ Brewers	9–3	Hitchcock (11–4)	D'Amico	—	30,772	58–48

August: 12–17 (Home: 5–10; Away: 7–7)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
107	August 1	@ Brewers	9–2	Moyer (1–0)	McDonald	—	18,425	59–48
108	August 2	@ Tigers	2–8	Olivares	Wagner (3–3)	—	23,405	59–49
109	August 3	@ Tigers	3–6	Olson	Charlton (2–5)	—	25,928	59–50
110	August 4	@ Tigers	9–3	Wolcott (7–8)	Nitkowski	—	23,569	60–50
111	August 6	Indians	3–4	Lopez	Wells (11–4)	Mesa	31,472	60–51
112	August 7	Indians	4–5	Tavarez	Charlton (2–6)	Mesa	30,431	60–52
113	August 8	Indians	1–2	Ogea	Mulholland (0–1)	Mesa	36,822	60–53
114	August 9	Twins	5–6	Parra	Wolcott (7–9)	Rodriguez	25,130	60–54
115	August 10	Twins	4–10	Klingenbeck	Hitchcock (11–5)	—	34,381	60–55
116	August 11	Twins	3–6	Radke	Wells (11–5)	Rodriguez	36,114	60–56
117	August 12	Royals	4–10	Appier	Moyer (1–1)	Huisman	43,476	60–57
118	August 13	Royals	9–5	Mulholland (1–1)	Linton	Johnson (1)	21,961	61–57
119	August 14	Royals	1–3	Rosado	Wolcott (7–10)	Montgomery	23,709	61–58
120	August 16	@ Yankees	6–5	Hitchcock (12–5)	Polley	Jackson (5)	50,724	62–58
121	August 17	@ Yankees	10–3	Moyer (2–1)	Rogers	—	51,729	63–58
122	August 18	@ Yankees	13–12 (12)	Ayala (4–3)	Mecir	Jackson (6)	44,769	64–58
123	August 19	@ Yankees	4–10	Pettitte	Carmona (6–2)	—	33,994	64–59
124	August 20	@ Orioles	1–4	Mussina	Wagner (3–4)	Myers	47,679	64–60
125	August 21	@ Orioles	5–10	Erickson	Hitchcock (12–6)	—	47,198	64–61
126	August 22	@ Orioles	10–3	Moyer (3–1)	Coppinger	—	47,380	65–61
127	August 23	@ Red Sox	6–4	Bosio (4–3)	Brandenburg	Ayala (2)	33,079	66–61
128	August 24	@ Red Sox	5–9	Lacy	Wells (11–6)	—	32,928	66–62
129	August 25	@ Red Sox	5–8	Maddux	Wagner (3–5)	Slocumb	34,377	66–63
130	August 26	Yankees	2–1	Ayala (5–3)	Lloyd	Charlton (14)	32,857	67–63
131	August 27	Yankees	7–4	Moyer (4–1)	Lloyd	—	32,975	68–63
132	August 28	Yankees	10–2	Mulholland (2–1)	Gooden	—	30,952	69–63
133	August 29	Orioles	9–6	Charlton (3–6)	Myers	—	24,915	70–63
134	August 30	Orioles	2–5	Coppinger	Hitchcock (12–7)	Mills	44,532	70–64
135	August 31	Orioles	6–7	Erickson	Bosio (4–4)	Benitez	42,092	70–65

September: 15–11 (Home: 8–3; Away: 7–8)

#	Date	Opponent	Score	Win	Loss	Save	Attendance	Record
136	September 1	Orioles	5–1	Mulholland (3–1)	Wells	—	50,015	71–65
137	September 2	Red Sox	8–9 (10)	Slocumb	Carmona (6–3)	—	24,470	71–66
138	September 3	Red Sox	11–9	Torres (1–1)	Gordon	Charlton (15)	17,374	72–66
139	September 4	Red Sox	5–7	Mahomes	Hitchcock (12–8)	Slocumb	22,642	72–67
140	September 8	@ Indians	1–2	Nagy	Mulholland (3–2)	—	42,307	72–68
141	September 8	@ Indians	6–5	Charlton (4–6)	Mesa	—	42,217	73–68
142	September 10	@ Royals	2–4	Rosado	Torres (1–2)	Bluma	12,499	73–69
143	September 11	@ Royals	2–4	Linton	Moyer (4–2)	Bluma	13,078	73–70
144	September 12	@ Royals	8–5	Mulholland (4–2)	Haney	Charlton (16)	15,045	74–70
145	September 13	@ Twins	13–7	Wells (12–6)	Miller	—	15,510	75–70
146	September 14	@ Twins	5–3 (10)	Ayala (6–3)	Guardado	Charlton (17)	18,002	76–70
147	September 15	@ Twins	7–0	Torres (2–2)	Robertson	—	25,142	77–70
148	September 16	Rangers	6–0	Moyer (5–2)	Burkett	—	50,544	78–70
149	September 17	Rangers	5–2	Mulholland (5–2)	Hill	Ayala (3)	32,279	79–70
150	September 18	Rangers	5–2	Hitchcock (13–8)	Witt	Charlton (18)	35,162	80–70
151	September 19	Rangers	7–6	Davis (2–2)	Cook	Charlton (19)	39,769	81–70
152	September 20	Athletics	12–2	Carmona (7–3)	Wengert	Meacham (1)	56,535	82–70
153	September 21	Athletics	9–2	Moyer (6–2)	Telgheder	—	56,103	83–70
154	September 22	Athletics	11–13	Mohler	Mulholland (5–3)	Taylor	54,194	83–71
155	September 23	@ Angels	3–4	Finley	Hitchcock (13–9)	Percival	16,212	83–72
156	September 24	@ Angels	6–11	Springer	Wells (12–7)	—	18,891	83–73
157	September 25	@ Angels	11–2	Torres (3–2)	Boskie	—	17,160	84–73
158	September 26	@ Athletics	5–7	Taylor	Charlton (4–7)	—	11,141	84–74
159	September 27	@ Athletics	1–8	Telgheder	Mulholland (5–4)	—	25,132	84–75
160	September 28	@ Athletics	5–3 (10)	Carmona (8–3)	Acre	Charlton (20)	30,057	85–75
161	September 29	@ Athletics	1–3	Small	Torres (3–3)	Taylor	34,462	85–76

Legend: = Win = Loss
Bold = Mariners team member

Detailed records

American League
Opponent	W	L	WP	RS	RA
AL East
Baltimore Orioles	5	7	0.417	82	81
Boston Red Sox	6	7	0.462	81	88
Detroit Tigers	6	6	0.500	83	73
New York Yankees	9	3	0.750	80	56
Toronto Blue Jays	5	7	0.417	79	82
Total	31	30	0.508	405	380
AL Central
Chicago White Sox	7	5	0.583	58	46
Cleveland Indians	4	8	0.333	46	54
Kansas City Royals	5	7	0.417	71	74
Milwaukee Brewers	9	4	0.692	84	73
Minnesota Twins	6	6	0.500	76	69
Total	31	30	0.508	335	316
AL West
California Angels	8	5	0.615	89	65
Oakland Athletics	5	8	0.385	74	78
Seattle Mariners
Texas Rangers	10	3	0.769	90	56
Total	23	16	0.590	253	199
Season Total	85	76	0.528	993	895

Month	Games	Won	Lost	Win %	RS	RA
March	1	1	0	1.000	3	2
April	25	15	10	0.600	164	138
May	26	12	14	0.462	159	151
June	26	14	12	0.538	173	163
July	28	16	12	0.571	176	157
August	29	12	17	0.414	158	163
September	26	15	11	0.577	160	121
Total	161	85	76	0.528	993	895

Total	161	85	76	0.528	993	895
	Games	Won	Lost	Win %	RS	RA
Home	81	43	38	0.531	473	449
Away	80	42	38	0.525	520	446

Notable transactions

April 13, 1996: Félix Fermín was released by the Mariners.^[5]
June 4, 1996: 1996 Major League Baseball Draft
- Gil Meche was drafted by the Mariners in the 1st round (22nd pick). Player signed June 9, 1996.^[6]
- Juan Pierre was drafted by the Mariners in the 48th round, but did not sign.^[7]
- Sean Spencer was drafted by the Seattle Mariners in the 40th round of the 1996 amateur draft. Player signed August 26, 1996.^[8]
August 1, 1996: Greg Pirkl was selected off waivers from the Mariners by the Boston Red Sox.^[9]
August 14, 1996: Roger Blanco (minors) was traded by the Mariners to the Atlanta Braves for Mark Whiten.^[10]
August 22, 1996: Luis Sojo was selected off waivers from the Mariners by the New York Yankees.^[11]
August 29, 1996: The Mariners traded a player to be named later to the Minnesota Twins for Dave Hollins. The Mariners completed the deal by sending David Ortiz to the Twins on September 13.^[12]

Roster

1996 Seattle Mariners

Roster

Pitchers

Catchers

Infielders

Outfielders

Other batters

26 Raúl Ibáñez

Manager

14 Lou Piniella

Coaches

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In

Pos	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
CF	Ken Griffey Jr.	140	545	165	.303	49	140

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At Bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting Average; HR = Home Runs; RBI = Runs Batted In

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
Alex Diaz	38	79	19	.241	1	5

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO

Other pitchers

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO

Relief pitchers

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO

Awards and honors

Alex Rodriguez became the first shortstop in 56 years to win the American League Batting Crown.^[13]

Alex Rodriguez, American League Batting Champion

Farm system

Level	Team	League	Manager
AAA	Tacoma Rainiers	Pacific Coast League	Dave Myers
AA	Port City Roosters	Southern League	Orlando Gómez
A	Lancaster JetHawks	California League	Dave Brundage
A	Wisconsin Timber Rattlers	Midwest League	Mike Goff
A-Short Season	Everett AquaSox	Northwest League	Roger Hansen
Rookie	AZL Mariners	Arizona League	Tom LeVasseur

^[14]

References

^ https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/1996.shtml
^ Mike Blowers page at Baseball Reference
^ ^a ^b Aaron Small page at Baseball Reference
^ https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jordari02.shtml
^ Félix Fermín page at Baseball Reference
^ Gil Meche page at Baseball Reference
^ Juan Pierre page at Baseball Reference
^ https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/spencse01.shtml
^ Greg Pirkl page at Baseball Reference
^ Mark Whiten page at Baseball Reference
^ Luis Sojo page at Baseball Reference
^ David Ortiz page at Baseball Reference
^ Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Figures, 2008 Edition, p.371, David Nemec and Scott Flatow, A Signet Book, Penguin Group, New York, ISBN 978-0-451-22363-0
^ Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007

External links

[1] ttps://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/1996.shtml

[2] Mike Blowers page at Baseball Reference

[small-3] Aaron Small page at Baseball Reference

[4] ttps://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/jordari02.shtml

[5] Félix Fermín page at Baseball Reference

[6] Gil Meche page at Baseball Reference

[7] Juan Pierre page at Baseball Reference

[8] ttps://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/spencse01.shtml

[9] Greg Pirkl page at Baseball Reference

[10] Mark Whiten page at Baseball Reference

[11] Luis Sojo page at Baseball Reference

[12] David Ortiz page at Baseball Reference

[13] Great Baseball Feats, Facts and Figures, 2008 Edition, p.371, David Nemec and Scott Flatow, A Signet Book, Penguin Group, New York, ISBN 978-0-451-22363-0

[14] Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007

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