T-Mobile Park is a
retractable roof
A retractable roof is a roof system designed to roll back the roof of a structure so that the interior of the facility is open to the outdoors. Retractable roofs are sometimes referred to as operable roofs or retractable skylights. The term op ...
stadium in
Seattle
Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest regio ...
,
Washington
Washington commonly refers to:
* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United States
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...
, United States. It is the home
ballpark
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of
Major League Baseball
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's
Seattle Mariners
The Seattle Mariners are an American professional baseball team based in Seattle. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West division. The team joined the American League as an expansion team ...
and has a
seating capacity
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of 47,929.
It is in Seattle's
SoDo
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neighborhood, near the western terminus of
Interstate 90. It is owned and operated by the Washington State Major League Baseball Stadium Public Facilities District. The first game at the stadium was played on July 15,
1999.
During the 1990s, the suitability of the Mariners' original stadium—the
Kingdome—as an MLB facility came under question, and the team's ownership group threatened to relocate the team. In September 1995,
King County voters defeated a ballot measure to secure public funding for a new baseball stadium. Shortly thereafter, the
Mariners' first appearance in the MLB postseason and their victory in the
1995 American League Division Series
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(ALDS) revived public desire to keep the team in Seattle. As a result, the
Washington State Legislature approved an alternate means of funding for the stadium with public money. The site, just south of the
Kingdome, was selected in September 1996 and construction began in March 1997. The bonds issued to finance Safeco Field were retired on October 1, 2011, five years earlier than anticipated.
T-Mobile Park is also used for amateur baseball events, including the
Washington Interscholastic Activities Association
The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) is the governing body of athletics and activities for secondary education schools in the state of Washington. As of February 2011, the private, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization consists ...
high school state championships and one
Washington Huskies
The Washington Huskies are the intercollegiate athletic teams that represent the University of Washington, located in Seattle. The school competes at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level as a member of the Pac-1 ...
game per season. Major non-baseball events that have been held at T-Mobile Park include the
2001 Seattle Bowl
The 2001 Jeep Seattle Bowl (December) was the first edition to be named as such of the college football bowl game (previously known as the Oahu Bowl), and was to be played at Safeco Field in Seattle, Washington. The game pitted the Georgia Tech ...
and
WrestleMania XIX
WrestleMania XIX was the 19th annual WrestleMania professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It featured wrestlers from the promotion's Raw and SmackDown! brand divisions. The event took pl ...
in 2003, which attracted the stadium's record attendance of 54,097.
The stadium was originally named Safeco Field under a 20-year naming-rights deal with Seattle-based
Safeco Insurance.
T-Mobile
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acquired the naming rights on December 19, 2018, and the name change took effect on January 1, 2019.
Location and transportation
T-Mobile Park is in the
SoDo
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district of downtown Seattle, bounded by
Dave Niehaus
David Arnold Niehaus (February 19, 1935 – November 10, 2010) was an American sportscaster. He was the lead play-by-play announcer for the American League's Seattle Mariners from their inaugural season in until his death after the 2010 season. I ...
Way (a block of 1st Avenue S.) to the west,
Edgar Martínez Drive (formerly S. Atlantic Street) to the south,
Royal Brougham
Royal Brewer Brougham (September 17, 1894 – October 30, 1978) was one of the longest tenured employees of a U.S. newspaper in history, working for the ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer'' in Seattle, Washington, primarily as sports editor, for 68 year ...
Way to the north, and
BNSF
BNSF Railway is one of the largest freight railroads in North America. One of seven North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 35,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and nearly 8,000 locomotives. It has three transcontinental routes that ...
railroad tracks
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to the east. The stadium is near the western terminus of
Interstate 90, the nation's longest interstate.
Parking is available at the stadium's parking garage across
Edgar Martínez Drive, the
Lumen Field
Lumen Field is a multi-purpose stadium in Seattle, Washington, United States. Located in the city's SoDo neighborhood, it is the home field for the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL), the Seattle Sea Dragons of the XFL, t ...
garage to the North, and other privately operated lots in the area.
Sounder commuter rail
Sounder commuter rail is a commuter rail service operated by BNSF on behalf of Sound Transit. Service operates Monday through Friday during peak hours from Seattle, Washington, north to Everett and south to Lakewood. In , the system had a ride ...
services nearby
King Street Station
King Street Station is a train station in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is served by Amtrak's '' Cascades'', ''Coast Starlight'', and ''Empire Builder'', as well as Sounder commuter trains run by Sound Transit. The station also anchor ...
. T-Mobile Park is also served by the
1 Line of
Sound Transit
Sound Transit (ST), officially the Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority, is a public transit agency serving the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington. It operates the Link light rail system in Seattle and Tacoma, ...
's
Link light rail
Link light rail is a light rail rapid transit system serving the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington. It is managed by Sound Transit in partnership with local transit providers, and consists of two non-connected lines: ...
system and local
King County Metro
King County Metro, officially the King County Metro Transit Department and often shortened to Metro, is the public transit authority of King County, Washington, which includes the city of Seattle. It is the eighth-largest transit bus agency in t ...
and
Sound Transit Express
Sound Transit Express (ST Express) is a network of regional express buses, operated by the multi-county transit agency, Sound Transit. The routes connect major regional hubs throughout 53 cities in three counties (King, Pierce, and Snohomish) i ...
bus routes via the nearby
Stadium Station.
History
On March 30, 1994,
county executive
A county executive, county manager or county mayor is the head of the executive branch of government in a United States county.
The executive may be an elected or an appointed position. When elected, the executive typically functions either as a ...
Gary Locke appointed a task force to assess the need for a new baseball stadium to replace the rapidly deteriorating
Kingdome. Many feared that the Mariners would leave Seattle if a new stadium was not built. In January 1995, the 28-member task force recommended to the King County Council that the public should be involved in financing the stadium. The task force concluded that a sales tax increase of 0.1% (to 8.3%) would be sufficient to fund the stadium. King County held a special election on September 19, asking the public for this sales tax increase;
the measure led early,
but was narrowly defeated by one-fifth of one percent.
On October 14, a special session of the state legislature authorized a different funding package for a new stadium that included a food and beverage tax in King County restaurants and bars, car rental surcharge in King County, a ballpark admissions tax, a credit against the state sales tax, and sale of a special stadium license plate.
[ Nine days later, the King County Council approved the funding package,] and established the Washington State Major League Baseball Stadium Public Facilities District to own the ballpark and oversee design and construction. Taxpayer suits opposing the legislative actions and the taxes failed in the courts.
On September 9, 1996, the site was selected for the new stadium, just south of the Kingdome. In late fall, several members of the King County Council wrote a letter to the Seattle Mariners, requesting a postponement of the projected $384.5-million stadium project. In response, Mariners ownership held a news conference stating that they would either sell the team or move it from Seattle. After public outcry, the King County Council voted to reaffirm its cooperation with the Mariners in building a new stadium. Team ownership contributed $145 million to cover cost overruns.
Construction officially began in 1997, with a groundbreaking ceremony on March 8 featuring Mariners star Ken Griffey Jr. The construction, overseen by chief financial officer (and former team president and minority owner) Kevin Mather, continued through the beginning of the 1999 season. Its first game was on Thursday, July 15, immediately after the All-Star break; the Mariners lost 3–2 to the San Diego Padres
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with 44,607 in attendance.
The naming rights
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were sold in June 1998 to Seattle-based Safeco Insurance, which paid $40 million for a 20-year deal. The 2018
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season was the last played under this name, and the Safeco signage was removed from the ballpark beginning that November. The naming rights were awarded to T-Mobile on December 19, which paid $87.5 million for an agreement that will last 25 years, and the name change officially took effect on January 1, 2019
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.
Ken Griffey Jr. returned to Safeco Field in 2007 with the Cincinnati Reds (where he had been traded after the 1999 season) to a hero's welcome. In commemoration of Griffey's achievements with the team, the Mariners unveiled a new poster that declared Safeco Field "The House That Griffey Built."
The Mariners moved the fences at Safeco Field closer to home plate before the 2013
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season "to create an environment that is fair for both hitters and pitchers," according to General Manager Jack Zduriencik
John A. “Jack” Zduriencik (; born January 11, 1951) is an American radio broadcaster and former professional baseball executive, scout, and player. He currently works as a radio host for KDKA-FM, which is affiliated with the Pittsburgh Pirates ...
. Safeco Field had been considered one of the most pitcher-friendly ballparks in the majors since it opened. The center field scoreboard and ad panels were replaced with an board during renovations, becoming the largest among all stadium scoreboards in the major leagues at the time.
After the 2017
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season, the field surface, in place since the stadium opened in 1999, underwent its first full replacement. The infield and foul territory were redone in 2012
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, but the outfield had not been replaced before the resodding.
Features
Like most ballparks built from the 1990s onward, T-Mobile Park is a "retro-modern" style ballpark that incorporates many of the features of ballparks built in the 1950s and earlier with modern amenities. In contrast with the Kingdome and other multi-purpose stadium
A multi-purpose stadium is a type of stadium designed to be easily used by multiple types of events. While any stadium could potentially host more than one type of sport or event, this concept usually refers to a specific design philosophy tha ...
s built primarily during the 1960s and 1970s, T-Mobile Park features a brick façade, an asymmetrical field dimension, a natural grass field, and spectator sightlines more suited for baseball, and is surrounded by city streets, a railroad line, and buildings. Modern features include a retractable roof, luxury suites, extensive food and beverage selection beyond traditional ballpark fare, and full ADA accessibility. There previously was technology that allowed spectators to monitor special game-time features with Nintendo DS receivers.
Layout
The park has four main gates open to all ticketholders during Mariners games, at the southwest, northwest, northeast, and southeast corners. These are identified as Home Plate, Left Field, Center Field, and Right Field, respectively. Entry to all ticketholders is also available through the Mariners Team Store off 1st Avenue and at "The 'Pen" entry behind the bullpens in left field. Special entrances for media and holders of certain ticket levels are on the southwest and south sides of the stadium.
There are five main levels to the stadium: Field (or Street), Main Concourse (100 level – 20,634 seats), Club Level (200 level – 4,585 seats), Suite Level (1,945 seats), and Upper Concourse (300 level – 15,955 seats). Two bleacher sections are above left field and below the center field scoreboard, with 3,706 seats. The Broadcast Center (press box) is on the Club Level and sub-level between it and the Main Level. As the field is approximately at street level, entry into any of the main gates requires visitors to ascend a flight of stairs, escalator, or elevator to access the main concourse, with the exception of the Right Field Entry, which opens onto the main concourse. Stairs, escalators, elevators, and ramps around the park provide access to all levels.
Seating capacity
Attendance record
* 54,097 – WWE
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WrestleMania XIX
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Food service
T-Mobile Park has an extensive food and beverage selection above and beyond the traditional ballpark fare of hot dog, pizza, soda, and beer. Concession stands selling traditional ballpark fare are plentiful on the main and upper concourses. Food courts behind home plate on the main concourse, as well as in "The 'Pen" (known as the Bullpen Market until a major 2011 remodel) on the street level inside the Center Field gate, sell items such as sushi
is a Japanese dish of prepared , usually with some sugar and salt, accompanied by a variety of , such as seafood, often raw, and vegetables. Styles of sushi and its presentation vary widely, but the one key ingredient is "sushi rice," also ...
, burrito
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s, teriyaki, stir-fries, pad thai
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, garlic fries, crepes, health food, seafood, and barbecue. An extensive selection of beer can also be found in those locations, as well as on the upper concourse. Patrons could previously order food with a Nintendo DS app called ''Nintendo Fan Network''.
Several restaurants and food services are available exclusively for fans purchasing certain ticket levels:
* The Diamond Club is on the field level behind home plate. Diamond Club seats are in the first eight rows behind home plate; holders of these seats are entitled to VIP parking in the facility's garage, a private entry to the ballpark on the field level, and access to the Diamond Club Lounge with buffet and bar. The lounge is decorated with Babe Ruth
George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948) was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Su ...
memorabilia. Diamond Club seats are sold on a full-season, 20-game, and single-game basis.
* 70 group and individual suites occupy an entire level of the ballpark. Open only to holders of suite level tickets, each suite features a private wait staff and concierge service. Holders of suite level tickets are also entitled to private entry to the ballpark. Suite level tickets are available on a full-season, partial-season, or individual-game basis.
* The Wells Fargo Terrace Club occupies another entire level of the ballpark. Open only to holders of Terrace Club seats and certain other ticket levels, the club features two lounges and wait service to each seat. As with suite level tickets, holders of Terrace Club seats are also entitled to private entry to the ballpark. Terrace Club seats are also available on full-season, partial-season, or individual-game basis.
* The Hit it Here Café is in right field, on the same level as the Terrace Club. Open to all visitors before game time on a first-come, first-served basis (though season ticket holders may make reservations), the café is only open to holders of tickets in the café during games. Hit it Here Café tickets are only sold on an individual-game basis.
Retractable roof
T-Mobile Park has a unique retractable roof that only acts as an "umbrella
An umbrella or parasol is a folding canopy supported by wooden or metal ribs that is usually mounted on a wooden, metal, or plastic pole. It is designed to protect a person against rain or sunlight. The term ''umbrella'' is traditionally use ...
" for the playing field and stands, rather than forming a complete climate-controlled enclosure, as is the case with all other retractable roofs in Major League Baseball. The park rarely needs to be heated or cooled due to Seattle's mild climate, but frequent precipitation necessitated a roof. The roof is sometimes closed on particularly cold nights, which helps prevent radiation heat loss. The only other covered baseball stadium in the world with permanent openings is the fixed-roof Seibu Dome in Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan, home of the Saitama Seibu Lions
The are a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League based north of Tokyo in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture. Before 1979, they were based in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture in Kyushu. The team is owned by a subsidiary of Seibu Railway ...
.
In the open position, the roof rests over the BNSF Railway tracks that bound the stadium to the east, with part of it hanging over the stands in right field. This has the effect of echoing the whistles from passing trains into the stadium. Train horns were often heard inside the stadium throughout the 2000s, but abated significantly when an overpass was built for Royal Brougham Way, the street that bounds the stadium to the north which previously crossed the tracks.
The roof consists of three major sections that extend into the closed position in a telescoping manner, with the two outer sections resting under the larger center section. Each section rests on a set of parallel tracks on the north and south sides of the stadium, with the outer sections moving along the inner set of tracks, and the center section moving along the outer set. Each section is structurally independent; i.e., no section depends on another for structural stability. "Welcome to T-Mobile Park, Seattle" is painted on top of the center section, visible from aircraft whether the roof is open or closed. A lighted "Safeco Field" sign was added to the east side of the roof in 2007, which aided in identification of the stadium from the freeways to the east; this sign has since been replaced with the T-Mobile Park name in its signature magenta color.
Each section is independently powered by electric motors that move the respective sections along the tracks. It is controlled from a central control room under the center field scoreboard. Depending on wind and weather conditions, the roof takes approximately ten minutes to move from the fully open to the fully closed position, and vice versa. The roof movement is nearly silent, blending in with the ambient noise typically present during a game. During normal operation, the movement of each section is governed by computers, with all three sections moving at the same time. During an emergency or maintenance operation, each section can be independently moved. A working spare motor and wheel assembly for the roof can be found inside the center field gate. In its present state, it serves to educate visitors on how the roof operates, but if needed, it can be used to replace a similar part on the roof should one become damaged or defective.
On April 7, 2013, Total Pro Sports voted Safeco Field the 8th Best Place to Catch a Game in 2013, mainly owing to the design of the retractable roof.
Ground rules concerning the roof
Batted ball striking the roof or roof truss
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In engineering, a truss is a structure that "consists of two-force members only, where the members are organized so that the assembl ...
es:
* A ball striking the roof or roof truss in fair territory is judged fair or foul in relation to where it lands.
* A ball striking the roof or roof truss in foul territory is a foul ball, regardless of where it lands. (During a game on April 18, 2011, Ryan Raburn of the visiting Detroit Tigers struck one of the trusses with a foul pop-up; Raburn is the only batter to date to hit any part of the roof in this manner.)
* A ball striking the roof or roof truss is still considered in flight, and the batter is out if legally caught by a fielder, regardless of where it struck.
Movement of the roof:
* If the game starts with the roof open, it may be closed during the game if weather conditions warrant, and at the discretion of the home team. Play may continue during closure, unless the umpires
An umpire is an official in a variety of sports and competition, responsible for enforcing the rules of the sport, including sportsmanship decisions such as ejection.
The term derives from the Old French nonper, ''non'', "not" and ''per'', ...
determine it is necessary to stop play.
* If the game starts with the roof closed, it may be opened during the game if weather conditions warrant. Opening the roof can only start between innings, after notification of the umpire crew chief. The visiting team may challenge the decision to open the roof, but final decision over whether to open the roof lies with the crew chief. The roof may only be opened once during a game.
Scoreboards
T-Mobile Park features a manual scoreboard
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, the second-largest HD video display scoreboard in MLB, a color LED out-of-town scoreboard, and LED ribbon boards along the terraces. The main scoreboard, which replaced the original monochrome scoreboard and separate video screen above the center field bleachers before the 2013 season, is more than in area. The board can be used either all at once, such as for live action or video replays, or split into sections for displaying information such as statistics and advertisements.
Additionally, television screens showing the local telecast of the game hang from the bottom of the Terrace Club level, for spectators seated in the last several rows of the main concourse seating areas, as well as those standing on the main concourse. Though fans in these areas have a full view of the field, their view of the scoreboards is obstructed by the overhang of the Terrace Club level. These screens display the content shown on the video board between innings or when the telecast is on a commercial break.
Baseball Museum of the Pacific Northwest
The Baseball Museum of the Pacific Northwest pays homage to now-defunct professional baseball
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Modern professional ...
teams that played in Washington
Washington commonly refers to:
* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United States
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered o ...
, Oregon
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, Idaho
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, Montana
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, and British Columbia
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before the establishment of the Mariners in . Additionally, it features hands-on displays explaining the composition of baseballs and bats, and the different types of gloves
A glove is a garment covering the hand. Gloves usually have separate sheaths or openings for each finger and the thumb.
If there is an opening but no (or a short) covering sheath for each finger they are called fingerless gloves. Fingerless glo ...
, as well as a replica outfield
The outfield, in cricket, baseball and softball is the area of the field of play further from the batsman or batter than the infield. In association football, the outfield players are positioned outside the goal area.
In cricket, baseball a ...
fence with props to allow fans to photograph themselves pretending to be outfielder
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s.
Mariners Hall of Fame
Co-located with the Baseball Museum of the Pacific Northwest, the Mariners Hall of Fame features bronze plaques of the nine inducted members: Alvin Davis (1997), Broadcaster Dave Niehaus (2000), Jay Buhner (2004), Edgar Martínez (2007), Randy Johnson (2012), Dan Wilson (2012), Ken Griffey Jr. (2013), Lou Pinella (2014), Jamie Moyer (2015), and Ichiro Suzuki (2022). The plaques describe their contributions to the franchise, as well as murals and television screens showing highlights of their careers with the Mariners.
Other features
The flagship Mariners Team Store is on the west side of the stadium. The first level of the store, on the street level, sells a comprehensive assortment of Mariners merchandise, while the upper level, on the main concourse, displays game-used items for sale, as well as a custom jersey embroidery station. Other stores include the Kids' Clubhouse at the northeast corner on the main concourse, a walk-in store at the southwest corner on the upper concourse, a store near the bridge from the parking garage on the club level, and kiosks throughout the ballpark.
Children's Hospital
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Playfield is a playground for children at the northeast corner of the stadium on the main concourse. Also in this area is "Moose's Munchies", a concession stand selling ballpark fare in child-sized portions.
The Moose Den, on the main concourse near the Children's Hospital Playfield, is a meet-and-greet area for the Mariner Moose, the team's mascot.
Tours
T-Mobile Park also gives walking tours of the stadium for $15 as of September 2021. Departing from the main Team Store, the tour includes information about the stadium not generally provided at games, as well as entry into areas not open to the general public during games, including the visitors' clubhouse, playing field and dugouts, Dave Niehaus Broadcast Center (press box), and a luxury suite.
Artwork
T-Mobile Park and its adjoining parking garage feature extensive public art displays, including:
* "The Tempset", a chandelier made of 1,000 resin baseball bats above the home plate entry. A companion 27-foot diameter compass rose mosaic at the home plate rotunda captures a number of elements in the history of baseball. It was created by Linda Beaumont, Stuart Keeler, and Michael Machnic.
* "Quilts" depicting each MLB team logo, made from recycled metal including license plates
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from the respective teams' states (or the province of Ontario in the case of the Toronto Blue Jays
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, or the District of Columbia in the case of the Washington Nationals
The Washington Nationals are an American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C.. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the National League (NL) East division. From 2005 to 2007, the team played in RFK Stadiu ...
). The collection also includes references to the history of baseball in the Pacific Northwest.
* Stainless steel cutouts of players in various poses while catching, batting Batting may refer to:
* Batting (baseball), the act of attempting to hit a ball thrown by the pitcher with a baseball bat, in order to score runs
* Batting (cricket), the act of defending one's wicket with the cricket bat while attempting to score ...
, fielding, and pitching, integrated into the fences at the stadium's four main gates.
* ''Six Pitches'', a series of metal sculptures depicting hands gripping baseballs for various types of pitches along the west facade of the garage.
* A bronze baseball glove
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the defending team, which assists players in catching and fielding balls hit by a batter or thrown by a teammate ...
, ' by Gerard Tsutakawa, that has become an icon for T-Mobile Park.
* ''The Defining Moment'', a mural by Thom Ross depicting Edgar Martínez's famed " The Double".
* Children's Hospital
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Wishing Well
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, which features a bronze statue of a child in batting position, and includes a geyser effect that was used at the end of the national anthem.
* Porcelain enamel on steel flag-mounted banner-panels depicting "Positions of the Field".
Statues
A bronze statue of Mariners broadcaster Dave Niehaus
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(1935–2010) was unveiled on September 16, 2011. The statue captures the broadcaster honored by the Baseball Hall of Fame with the Ford C. Frick Award in 2008, and who broadcast 5,284 Mariners games over 34 seasons (1977–2010), at a desk, behind a microphone, wearing headphones with his Mariners scorebook in front of him. His scorebook is opened to the box score for Game 5 of the 1995 American League Division Series
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, when Edgar Martínez hit " The Double". There is an empty seat next to the statue, so fans can sit next to Niehaus and pose for photos. His longtime broadcast partner Rick Rizzs presided over a private ceremony to unveil the statue. The Dave Niehaus Broadcast Center is on the Club Level behind home plate. When Niehaus died, his headset and microphone were placed by his empty seat in the Broadcast Center as a tribute.
In April 2017, a statue of Ken Griffey Jr. by sculptor Lou Cella was unveiled outside the Home Plate Entrance to the ballpark. After the 2017 season, the bat was broken off in an attempt to steal it, but a bystander from the office building across the street ran down the perpetrator and recovered the bat, which was subsequently reattached.
A bronze statue of Martínez, also made by Cella, was installed in August 2021 on the south side of the stadium near Griffey's statue.
Notable events at T-Mobile Park
Major League
* The ballpark has hosted playoff games in three seasons: , when the Mariners won the American League
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wild card; and again in , when they won the American League West
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while tying a Major League record by winning 116 games. In 2000, the Mariners defeated the Chicago White Sox
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in the ALDS 3–0, but were defeated by the New York Yankees
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in the ALCS, 4–2. The next year, the Mariners defeated the Cleveland Indians
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3–2 in the ALDS, but were again defeated by the Yankees
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in the ALCS, 4–1; it was not until 21 years later in 2022 that another playoff game would be played, the 3rd and deciding game of the ALDS, which ended in 18 innings with the Houston Astros emerging victorious 1-0. The World Series
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has never been played at the park.
* The ballpark also hosted the 2001 MLB All-Star Game. The American League defeated the National League
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, 4–1. Cal Ripken Jr. of the AL's Baltimore Orioles
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was the game's MVP
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. A bronze plaque in the visitor's bullpen now marks the location where Ripken hit the final All-Star Game
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home run
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of his Hall of Fame career.
* On October 1, , Ichiro Suzuki collected his 258th hit
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of the season in a home game, breaking the 84-year-old single season hit record of 257 previously held by George Sisler
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. Sisler, who died in 1973
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(the year Suzuki was born), was represented at the game by his daughter and four other family members. Suzuki finished the season with 262 hits.
* On April 15, , Ken Griffey Jr. became the first (and only) player in franchise history to hit 400 home runs. He homered in the 5th inning off the Angels
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' Jered Weaver
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, en route to an 11–3 triumph.
* The Mariners' interleague
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series with the Florida Marlins
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was played in Seattle due to a scheduling conflict with rock band U2's 360° Tour at Sun Life Stadium
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. With the Marlins officially designated as the home team, the designated hitter
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rule was not in effect, marking the first time that a game was played under such rules at an American League
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stadium in modern interleague play. Félix Hernández
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became the first pitcher to record a hit at the ballpark.
* On April 21, , Philip Humber
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of the Chicago White Sox
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threw a perfect game
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against the Mariners, marking the 21st time a perfect game had been thrown. This also marks the first perfect game and no-hitter at the ballpark.
* On June 8, 2012, six Mariners pitchers (Kevin Millwood
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, Charlie Furbush
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, Stephen Pryor, Lucas Luetge, Brandon League
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, Tom Wilhelmsen) threw a combined no-hitter against the Los Angeles Dodgers
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, marking the third no-hitter thrown by the Mariners, and the first one accomplished by the Mariners at the ballpark.
* On August 15, 2012, Mariners pitcher Félix Hernández
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pitched the 23rd perfect game
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in Major League Baseball history and the first perfect game in Mariners history. This marked the second perfect game and third no-hitter at the park, all of which occurred in the 2012 season. This was also the first time in Major League Baseball history that two perfect games occurred at the same park in the same season.
* On August 10, , Ken Griffey Jr. became the seventh member inducted into the Mariners' Hall of Fame, joining a group that includes Alvin Davis
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(1997), Dave Niehaus
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(2000), Jay Buhner (2004), Edgar Martínez (2007), Randy Johnson
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(2012) and Dan Wilson (2012).
* On August 12, , Hisashi Iwakuma
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threw the team's fifth no-hitter in team history against the Baltimore Orioles
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; Iwakuma became the second Japanese-born pitcher to throw a no-hitter (after Hideo Nomo in 2001); it was the fourth no-hitter in the ballpark's history.
* On May 4, , Los Angeles Angels
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slugger Albert Pujols recorded his 3,000th major league hit. Pujols is the 32nd player in MLB history to achieve such a feat. He is also the fourth player in MLB history to record 3,000 hits and 600 home runs, joining Hank Aaron
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, Willie Mays
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and Alex Rodriguez
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.
* On May 5, , Baltimore Orioles
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pitcher John Means threw a no-hitter against the Mariners, striking out 12 batters while facing the minimum of 27 batters. It was the fifth no-hitter in the ballpark's history.
* On May 18, 2021, Detroit Tigers pitcher Spencer Turnbull threw a no-hitter against the Mariners, recording nine strikeouts and two walks in a 5–0 win. It was the eighth no-hitter in Tigers history and the first no-hitter by a Tiger since Justin Verlander
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's in 2011. It was the second no-hitter at T-Mobile Park in 2021 and the sixth no-hitter in the park's history. It was also the fifth no-hitter in the 2021 MLB season.
* On September 30, 2022, Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh hit a walk-off home run
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against the Athletics to send the Mariners to the postseason for the first time since 2001. At the time of Raleigh's walk-off home run, the Mariners had the longest postseason drought in any of the Big 4 North American sports leagues, which made this moment even more special.
College baseball
On May 4, 2007, an NCAA
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Pacific-10 Conference baseball attendance record was set when the Washington Huskies
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hosted defending National Champion Oregon State
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in front of 10,421 spectators. Washington won the game, 6–2.
College football
Then-Safeco Field was the venue for the first edition of the short-lived Seattle Bowl
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college football game.
Soccer
The stadium hosted several soccer matches before the opening of Lumen Field
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, which was designed for soccer. To prepare for soccer matches, the field has to be sodded to cover and replace the dirt infield.
On March 2, 2002, the United States men's national soccer team
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played Honduras in a friendly match
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, winning 4–0 in front of a then-record crowd of 38,534.
The stadium hosted four matches during the 2002 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup
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in November, including two matches featuring the United States women's national soccer team
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, as part of qualification for the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup. The first U.S. match, against Panama
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, had an attendance of 21,522; the second match, against Costa Rica, was attended by 10,079 fans.
Wrestling
On March 30, 2003, the stadium hosted WrestleMania XIX
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, which set an all-time record attendance for the facility of 54,097.
Concerts
Other
* The stadium was the home to the Microsoft
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annual employee meeting until 2012, attracting over 20,000 employees.
* Bernie Sanders held a rally for his 2016 presidential campaign
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January
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on March 25.
* The stadium hosted Nitro Circus Live on September 16, 2017.
* On September 15, 2018, Russell M. Nelson, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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, along with his wife, Wendy Watson Nelson, and Second Counselor Henry B. Eyring, held a devotional that was attended by 49,089 church members, friends, and members of the community.[President Nelson shares 5 lessons 'life has taught me' with 49,000 in Safeco Field]
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*In late spring, numerous local high schools hold graduation ceremonies at the venue (while the Mariners are away).
See also
* Rick "The Peanut Man" Kaminski
References
External links
Stadium site on MLB.com
Video of Safeco Field – shows the roof open and close in time lapse
Safeco Field Seating Chart
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NBBJ buildings
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