SEATTLE – The wait for a division crown had been oh-so-long for baseball fans in the Pacific Northwest.
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After 24 seasons, the Seattle Mariners put an end to that wait with a 9-2 win over the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday night. And while it was surely a special moment for the players and coaches, the long wait Mariners fans had been through wasn’t lost on the club, even though some of its members weren’t even born the last time Seattle won its division.
“It’s awesome. That didn’t happen for a long time. This team is really good, and I would say this is for the fans,” closer Andrés Muñoz said postgame. “This is for the fans… We’re going to do our best in (the playoffs), and the city of Seattle deserves this.”
It took a rem