A most unique Mariners opener: Fans, players, even the owner talkin World Series
From couples from Puyallup, Port Orchard entering the yard first to team CEO John Stanton, they expect a first Seattle World Series in 2026.
“WORLD SERIES, baby! ” That’s what Chad Lackey from Puyallup was yelling through blue-and-green confetti falling all around him just inside the home-plate gate. A young boy was on his knees at a landing to the steps a few feet away.
The kid was scooping up as much of the confetti as he could press against his little body. Lackey and wife Lauri — “I’m the Mariners fan” who converted her husband from his native San Diego Padres, she said — were walking off the escalator that took them from the street entrance of the gate up to the main concourse of T-Mobile Park. It was just after 5 p.
m. Thursday. They were among the first fans into the park for what the Lackeys said was their 15th Mariners Opening Day.
It was more than two hours before Logan Gilbert’s first pitch of the 2026 season, to the Cleveland Guardians. For their latest Mariners opener, the Lackeys brought their 1-year-old grandson. They let his parents, their kids, come, too.
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