SEATTLE — So when exactly did “Too many home runs!” become a thing?
Some time after 1997, it appears.
“No, I don’t remember that being a complaint,” Edgar Martinez, then the Mariners’ designated hitter and now their hitting coach, said in an interview Friday at Safeco Field. “I think obviously in the Kingdome, it was a hitter’s ballpark. We knew that we would score runs.
“If there was a complaint, it was that we didn’t have enough pitching.”
The 1997 Mariners have enjoyed considerable attention here in 2018 because they hold the all-time team record with 264 home runs.