Rizzs held his retirement press conference on Wednesday morning.
On Tuesday, longtime Seattle Mariners broadcaster Rick Rizzs announced that the 2026 campaign will be his final behind the microphone for the franchise.
Rizzs, who has spent 51 years in baseball broadcasting, has spent 40 years as a broadcaster with the Mariners already. He's become synonymous with M's baseball for four decades, and has delivered some of the biggest calls in organizational history, including the famed Luis Sojo bases-clearing hit in the 1995 American League West tiebreaker against the California Angels.
And for what it's worth, Rizzs still remembers that call perfectly, and he recited it in a Wednesday press conference inside T-Mobile Park.
The Mariners ultimately won that game before beating the New York Yankees in five games in the American League Division Series. That was the first playoff series win in team history.
Mariners Chairman John Stanton kicked off the press conference with a thank you before Rizzs took the podium to deliver an appreciative and reflective statement and answer questions.
While he spoke for about a half hour in all, Rizzs delivered one memorable line that should have all M's fans fired up for the 2026 campaign.
Rizzs: We're going to get to the World Series this year and we're going to win it.
Rizzs added that he wasn't trying to put any extra pressure on the ballclub because everybody in the clubhouse already believes that's going to be the case.
The Mariners won the American League West in 2025 for the first time since 2001 and advanced to the American League Championship Series for the first time since the same year, ultimately losing in Game 7 to the Toronto Blue Jays.
More to come
Our own Teren Kowatsch was at T-Mobile Park for the press conference and will have a more detailed story and takeaway in a piece still to come on Mariners Roundtable.
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Seattle will report to spring training in two weeks for the first workouts in Peoria, Ariz. As they get ready for that, there are still questions about the roster for 2026, including if the team could bring back third baseman Eugenio Suarez for a third go-round. He hit 49 home runs a season ago between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Mariners.
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