SEATTLE -- The stoicism with which Ichiro Suzuki delivered the message to the Mariners was absorbed so effectively, because it embodied exactly what’s been at the forefront of their minds following stinging finishes in each of the past two seasons.

“Seize the moment,” Suzuki told the home dugout at T-Mobile Park on a sun-soaked Sunday in August, during an extended speech celebrating his Hall of Fame enshrinement.

Those words have sprouted into the team’s marketing for this final stretch of the 2025 season, from hashtags to T-shirts, and on Tuesday night, they were spread over a massive banner beyond left field for the first time. Yet on an intangible level, Suzuki’s slogan has been personified by the team’s play on the field throughout this playoff push.

And the Mariners seized, officia

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