Baseball Hall of Famer and Seattle Mariners legend Ken Griffey Jr. made an amazing entrance to T-Mobile Park to hype up his former team’s fans prior to Seattle’s winner-take-all Game 5 of the American League Division Series against the Detroit Tigers.
Griffey played his first 11 MLB seasons (1989-1999) with the Mariners before closing his career with Seattle for his final two (2009-2010). The first-ballot Hall of Famer made 13 All-Star Games and won 10 Gold Gloves, seven Silver Sluggers and the 1997 American League MVP award.
Griffey was phenomenal in the 1990s, posting a per-162 game average of 44 home runs and 126 RBI, per Baseball-Reference. He also hit .302 with a .965 OPS and led the American League in home runs in four of those swasons. The phenomenal fielder, who was known for his leaping catches at the wall to rob home runs, won a Gold Glove each year from 1990-1999.
Griffey is currently seventh all time in home runs (630), 17th in RBI (1,836) and 34th in runs scored (1,662).
The Mariners notably made the playoffs (and the American League Championship Series) for the first time in franchise history in 1995 with Griffey leading the way.
This year’s team won the AL West and gave itself a berth in the ALDS for the first time since 2001.
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