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Seattle and Mariners
Former Seattle Mariners manager and Diamondbacks bench coach Bob Melvin became the new manager after only a ten-day tenure for Backman.
The most sacrifice flies by a team in one game is five ; the record was established by the Seattle Mariners in 1988 and tied by the Colorado Rockies in 2006 and then tied again in 2008 by the Seattle Mariners.
However, some of the more successful American League teams of recent memory, including the 2002 Anaheim Angels, the 2001 Seattle Mariners and the 2005 Chicago White Sox have experienced their success in part as a result of playing " small ball ," advancing runners through means such as the stolen base and the related hit and run play.
The Orioles traded away star players Miguel Tejada to the Astros and ace Erik Bedard to the Seattle Mariners for prized prospect Adam Jones, lefty reliever George Sherrill, and minor league pitchers Kam Mickolio, Chris Tillman, and Tony Butler.
Former backup catcher Craig Tatum, Orioles v. Seattle Mariners, Camden Yards, May 13, 2010.
After defeating the Boston Red Sox in the Division Series and the Seattle Mariners in the ALCS, Cleveland clinched a World Series berth, for the first time since 1954.
However, they ended up five games behind the Chicago White Sox in the Central division and missed the wild card by one game to the Seattle Mariners.
Cleveland rallied to close a 14 – 2 deficit in the seventh inning to defeat the Seattle Mariners 15 – 14 in 11 innings.
Seattle and Cleveland met in the first round of the playoffs, however the Mariners won the series 3-2.
Kaye was part-owner of baseball's Seattle Mariners along with his partner Lester Smith from 1977 to 1981.
The Marlins ' first manager was Rene Lachemann, a former catcher who had previously managed the Seattle Mariners and Milwaukee Brewers, and who at the time of his hiring was a third base coach for the Oakland Athletics.
Meanwhile, play-by-play TV broadcaster Len Kasper was also lost to the Chicago Cubs and replaced by Rich Waltz ( who had previously been with the Seattle Mariners ), and radio announcer John " Boog " Sciambi was replaced by Roxy Bernstein.
The Marlins did not make a huge move at the deadline, instead trading minor-leaguer Yorman Bazardo to the Seattle Mariners for left-handed pitcher Ron Villone.
MLB would not return to Seattle until 1977 when the Mariners entered the AL, along with the Toronto Blue Jays.
Nintendo of America is also the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball team.
On December 16, 2009, they acquired starting pitcher Roy Halladay from the Toronto Blue Jays for three minor-league prospects, and traded Cliff Lee to the Seattle Mariners for three prospects.
On April 29,, Clemens became the first pitcher in history to strike out 20 batters in a nine-inning major league game, against the Seattle Mariners at Fenway Park.
He pitched a shut out against the Seattle Mariners in the ALCS that year and also pitched eight scoreless innings against the New York Mets in the World Series.
Following what was becoming familiar annual speculation, Clemens unexpectedly appeared in the owner's box at Yankee Stadium on May 6,, during the seventh-inning stretch in a game against the Seattle Mariners, and made a brief statement: " Thank y'all.
In 2000, after losing two division series games to Oakland, Clemens pitched his most spectacular game as a Yankee in the ALCS against the Seattle Mariners: a complete game one-hit shutout with an ALCS-record 15 strikeouts.
After the 2000 ALCS game against the Mariners where he knocked down future teammate Alex Rodriguez and then argued with him, Seattle Mariners manager Lou Piniella called Clemens a " headhunter.

Seattle and tied
In 1987, Mattingly tied Dale Long's major league record by hitting home runs in eight consecutive games ( record later tied again by Ken Griffey, Jr., of Seattle in 1993 ), as well as stroking an extra base hit in ten consecutive games.
With the exception of making a brief run at free agent Tina Thompson and a failed effort to pry Swin Cash out of Seattle, the Sun withheld making changes to a team that tied atop the Eastern Conference last season.
Maccabi Los Angeles of California and Bethlehem Steel of Pennsylvania have both won the cup a record five times, while Greek American AA of New York and Seattle Sounders FC are tied for the record for most consecutive cup victories at three.
Held in Seattle, the two teams were tied in the best-of-five series when it was cancelled due to the Spanish flu epidemic, the first time the Stanley Cup was not awarded.
A public art work, commissioned by the Seattle Arts Commission, provides literary interpretation of the experience through recordings of Seattle poet Judith Roche's " Salmon Suite ," a sequence of five poems tied to the annual migratory sequence of the fish.
In The Seattle Times, journalist and science fiction author Nisi Shawl tied the writing quality to the action scenes, " Morgan's talent for tension-building is matched by the clarity with which he describes the sideswiping, rubber-burning, rear-end-ramming, full-contact racing scenes.
For instance, it's common knowledge that the economy of Seattle, Washington is tied to aircraft manufacturing, Detroit, Michigan to automobiles, and Silicon Valley to high tech manufacturing.
However, Seattle tied the game in the third quarter after kicker Norm Johnson made his second field goal of the game.
* 1952 ( 8 ) Houston Weathervane, Bakersfield Open ( tied with Marlene Hagge, Betty Jameson and Babe Zaharias ), Seattle Weathervane, Cross Country 144 Hole Weathervane, Eastern Open, Women's Western Open, Carrollton Open, Thomasville Open

Seattle and 1906
Over the next two decades, Shoreline was connected to Seattle via the Seattle-Everett Interurban streetcar line ( 1906 ) and a newly paved North Trunk Road ( now Aurora Avenue N., State Route 99 ) ( 1913 ), helping to increase its population.
Construction began in 1906 under the name Portland & Seattle Railway, proceeding eastward from Vancouver, Washington.
It wasn ’ t until 1906, while studying at the University of Washington in Seattle, that she was inspired by an encounter with the work of Gertrude Käsebier, to take up photography again.
Chester Floyd Carlson ( February 8, 1906 – September 19, 1968 ) was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle, Washington.
The Great Northern Railway finally came to Seattle in 1884, winning Seattle a place in competition for freight, though it would be 1906 before Seattle finally acquired a major rail passenger terminal.
Only four teams have won more regular season games: the 1906 Chicago Cubs and the 2001 Seattle Mariners with 116, the 1998 Yankees with 114 and the 1954 Cleveland Indians with 111.
The Seattle-to-Everett Interurban streetcar reached the lake in 1906, and the Bitter Lake neighborhood was annexed by Seattle in 1954.
By 1906 they opened a manufacturing facility at its Snelling Shops where they not only manufactured cars for TCRT but also Chattanooga, Duluth, Seattle and Chicago among others.
Between 1905 – 1906, he was chief engineer for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, returning to the NP in 1906 as chief engineer and also vice-president and engineer in charge of construction of the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway.
* The record for number of wins in a single season of Major League Baseball achieved by the Chicago Cubs in 1906 and the Seattle Mariners in 2001.
They were named after U. S. Army Major Hiram Martin Chittenden, the Seattle District Engineer for the Corps of Engineers from April 1906 to September 1908.
Before 1906, the White River joined the Green River near Auburn, and the combined river ( under the name " White ") joined the Black River at Tukwila, forming the Duwamish River, which emptied into Elliott Bay at Seattle.
The Seattle Carnegie Library, the first permanent library located in its own dedicated building at Fourth Avenue and Madison Street, opened in 1906 with a Beaux-Arts design by Peter J. Weber.
The park includes a conservatory ( a designated city landmark ), completed in 1912 ; a water tower with an observation deck, built by the Water Department in 1906, a fenced-off reservoir ; the dramatic Art deco building of the Seattle Asian Art Museum ( a designated city landmark ); a statue of William H. Seward ; and a sculpture, Black Sun, by Isamu Noguchi ( colloquially referred to as " The Doughnut ") around which a scenic view of the Seattle skyline that prominently includes the Space Needle can be seen, as well as several meadows and picnic tables.
SAM traces its origins to the Seattle Fine Arts Society ( organized 1905 ) and the Washington Arts Association ( organized 1906 ), which merged in 1917, keeping the Fine Arts Society name.
The next development of folded paper used to construct cartons are mentioned by Dr. Winslow of Seattle, Washington in 1908 who claimed that paper milk containers were commercially sold in San Francisco and Los Angeles as early as 1906.
The plant operated from 1906 to 1956, and was bought by the City of Seattle for park purposes in 1962.
In 1900 the Seattle Gas Light Company began to purchase lots on this promontory ( Secrist, Title Search ) and its coal gas plant went into operation in 1906.
The original, swing-span bridge was built in 1906 – 08 by the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway ( SP & S ), as part of construction of a new line between Vancouver, Washington and Portland.
Construction began in 1906 under the name Portland & Seattle Railway, proceeding eastward from Vancouver, Washington.

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