1985 Seattle Mariners season explained

Seattle Mariners
Season:	1985
League:	American League
Division:	West
Ballpark:	Kingdome
City:	Seattle, Washington
Divisional Place:	6th
General Managers:	Hal Keller
Managers:	Chuck Cottier
Television:	KSTW-TV 11
Radio:	KIRO 710 AM (Dave Niehaus, Rick Rizzs, Nelson Briles)

The Seattle Mariners season was their ninth since the franchise creation. They finished sixth in the American League West with a record of .

Regular season

July 9: Against the Toronto Blue Jays at the Kingdome in Seattle, Jays catcher Buck Martinez executed a double play by tagging out two runners at home plate. In the third inning, Phil Bradley was on second when Gorman Thomas singled. Bradley was tagged out at home, on a throw from Jesse Barfield to Martinez with a collision in which Martinez broke his ankle; he was sitting on the ground in agony and threw the ball to third base in an attempt to tag out Thomas. The throw went into left field and Thomas continued running; left fielder George Bell threw the ball back to Martinez, still seated on the ground in pain, who tagged Thomas out.^[1]

June 3, 1985: Mike Schooler was drafted by the Mariners in the 2nd round of the 1985 Major League Baseball Draft.^[2]
June 20, 1985: Mike Stanton was released by the Mariners.^[3]

1985 Seattle Mariners
Roster
Pitchers		CatchersInfielders		OutfieldersOther batters		ManagerCoaches

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	108	305	74	.243	6	27
1B	155	578	166	.287	18	78
2B	125	485	128	.264	2	23
SS	118	352	91	.259	6	37
3B	155	570	157	.275	28	84
LF	159	641	192	.300	26	88
CF	139	502	121	.241	14	68
RF	122	452	120	.265	14	69
DH	135	484	104	.215	32	87

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
67	210	60	.286	8	28
80	185	41	.222	4	23
75	168	33	.196	1	15
61	116	24	.207	9	24
48	111	27	.243	1	10
67	104	15	.144	0	6
31	70	11	.157	0	4
33	62	12	.194	0	3
19	61	20	.328	1	7
27	59	14	.237	1	5
4	4	0	.000	0	0
6	2	0	.000	0	0

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
35	247.0	17	10	3.46	155
37	218.1	12	19	4.91	136
24	126.2	7	14	5.47	72
24	123.0	5	11	6.00	67
23	120.2	6	10	4.77	55
18	70.1	5	6	7.29	45
2	6.0	1	1	12.00	2
2	6.0	0	2	13.50	5

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
17	52.2	0	5	5.98	27
15	35.1	1	2	6.37	23
2	4.2	0	1	7.71	1

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
70	7	3	16	3.09	58
76	2	1	3	3.72	34
40	7	0	1	3.36	70
28	0	0	0	3.76	29
24	1	2	1	5.28	17
15	2	1	4	1.95	32
15	0	0	1	3.54	7
12	0	0	0	6.33	17
10	0	0	0	1.32	8
8	1	0	1	6.00	8

Web site: Encyclopedia of Baseball Catchers - Tagging 2 Runners on Double Plays.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/schoomi01.shtml Mike Schooler page at Baseball Reference
https://www.baseball-reference.com/s/stantmi01.shtml Mike Stanton page at Baseball Reference
Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball, 2nd and 3rd editions. Durham, North Carolina: Baseball America, 1997 and 2007