These All-Star Mariners made the most of their ASG experience

SEATTLE -- Given that some of the sport’s all-time greatest players have spent a chunk of their careers in Seattle, it’s no surprise that many among that group have also shined on the All-Star stage.

Here’s a look at 10 of the most iconic moments from the Midsummer Classic and Home Run Derby in Mariners history.

Junior hits the warehouse (1993)

Ken Griffey Jr.’s swing had already become familiar theater by the summer of 1993, but the Derby at Camden Yards added a new chapter -- and one that remains among the event’s most iconic. Griffey didn’t just clear the right-field wall in Baltimore -- he reached the B&O Warehouse on the fly, the structure that was built into the ballpark’s design when it opened a year prior. Years later, the plaque on the warehouse still tells the story: Griffey was here, and the game felt bigger because of it.

Cal crushes way into Derby history -- with family at side (2025)

Cal Raleigh’s Derby win in 2025 somehow managed to be both thunderous and deeply personal. With his father, Todd Sr., on the mound and his younger brother, Todd Jr., behind the plate, the night felt less like a spectacle and more like a family scene that just happened to unfold on baseball’s biggest stage. And the fact that it was in Atlanta, where Raleigh thrived on the travel-ball circuits as an amateur, made it a homecoming of sorts. Raleigh launched baseballs with the same force that’s earned him the nickname “Big Dumper,” and he became just the second player ever to swing from both sides of the plate in a Derby. But victory was far from guaranteed, as Raleigh advanced from the first round by a mere inch over Brent Rooker before really hitting his groove the rest of the way. Moreover, he became the first catcher and switch-hitter ever to prevail in the sport’s premier power-hitting event.

Junior wins his third Derby (1999)

Griffey’s third Derby win felt like less of a surprise and more of a confirmation, cementing his status as arguably the sport’s best slugger of the 1990s -- and with the ability to live up to the grandest of moments. To pull off a decade-sized hat trick, Griffey conquered Boston’s historic Fenway Park by hitting 15 in the final round vs. Cleveland’s Jim Thome. No player has participated in more Derbies than Griffey (eight) and none has won more than him, either. Three titles didn’t make him the Derby’s king so much as its constant, the standard everyone else chased. In that moment, it was clear: the Home Run Derby wasn’t something Griffey conquered. It was something he belonged to.

Julio’s record first-round in in front of home Derby crowd (2023)

Julio Rodríguez didn’t just heat up in the first round of the 2023 Home Run Derby, he rewrote the pace of the event. One swing turned into 10, then 20, then something that stopped feeling real. By the time the horn sounded -- in front of an electric T-Mobile Park crowd that was his own back yard -- Rodríguez had launched a whopping 41. The swings were violent but controlled, fast but repeatable, and he explicitly leveraged the pull side by narrowly yanking his fly balls inside the left-field foul pole. Alas, Rodríguez didn’t keep pace the rest of the way and was admittedly fatigued as the event went on. But in his own house, he was nonetheless the story of the entire show.

Ichiro’s inside-the-parker (2007)

For all of his 10 All-Star selections, the best for Ichiro Suzuki is still one they talk about today. That’d be the 2007 Midsummer Classic in San Francisco, when Suzuki surged around the bases for an inside the park home run that sparked the American League to a 5-4 win and led to him being named the event’s MVP. Facing Padres right-hander Chris Young -- who would later become general manager of the division-rival Rangers -- Suzuki belted one off the right-field bricks and into triple’s alley amid the ballpark’s quirky dimensions. It took an odd hop back into right field, where Griffey of all people -- now with the Reds -- attempted a relay throw that was never going to be in time. It remains the only inside the park home run in Midsummer Classic history.

Star-studded show in Seattle (2001)

The 2001 Midsummer Classic felt like a snapshot of the most dominant season in Mariners history. Seattle had a league-high eight representatives -- Bret Boone, Mike Cameron, Freddy García, Jeff Nelson, Edgar Martinez, John Olerud, Suzuki and Kazuhiro Sasaki -- to the event that was played in their own backyard, then Safeco Field, which had just opened two summers prior. They were there because baseball demanded it. The standings backed it up, the record 116 wins followed and the All-Star rosters reflected what the rest of the sport already knew -- in 2001, everything ran through Seattle.

Julio announces himself on global stage (2022)

While Rodríguez’s rapid rise from MLB Pipeline posterboy to All-Star ascended in just four short months, most outside Seattle weren’t truly aware of his potential until his epic showing in the Home Run Derby that summer at Dodger Stadium. At just 21 years old, Rodríguez crushed 32 homers in the opening round to dispatch Corey Seager and finish with the second-most homers in a Derby first round -- three shy of Pete Alonso the year prior, who he eliminated in the second round. Alas, Rodríguez couldn’t quite reach the finish line in the finals, bowing to eventual champ Juan Soto. But the star center fielder was nonetheless the story of the entire show -- and he announced himself to the sport on a global stage, and emphatically.

Griffey wins All-Star Game MVP (1992)

“The Kid” was just 22 years old for the ‘92 Midsummer Classic in Miami, yet it was already his third All-Star selection. He went 3-for-3 with a homer off Greg Maddux -- the first in All-Star history for the Mariners -- to lead the AL to a 13-6 victory as part of the league’s dominance over the Senior Circuit in the 1990s. The MVP trophy anointed a blossoming star while confirming what the game was already learning in real time. Griffey was becoming a big part of baseball’s present -- but more so, its future.

Canó wins All-Star Game MVP (2017)

Robinson Canó's final All-Star appearance of his career eight was easily the sweetest, as the slugging second baseman crushed a game-winning solo homer in the 10th inning that propelled the AL to a tense, 2-1 win and secured him MVP honors for the event.

Edgar takes Maddux deep (1997)

Five years after Griffey took “Mad Dog” deep, Martinez did so in the ‘97 event in Cleveland, though by this time, Maddux was unquestionably the best pitcher on the planet, having since won four straight Cy Young Awards. Martinez ambushed Maddux on the very first pitch of the second inning and yanked one over the high wall in left, a vital knock in the AL’s 3-1 win.