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2 unusual facts about Rick Rizzs


Rick Rizzs

"Swing and a drive, deep to right field, HOLY SMOKES, this one is way out of here! Hit into the Hit-it-Here Café, beyond the windows, into somebody's soup! Oh my goodness!"- used for Mike Carp's game-winning home run off of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim relief pitcher Hisanori Takahashi in the bottom of the eighth inning on August 29, 2011, as the Mariners won this game by a final of 5-3.

His tenure with the Mariners was only interrupted by a two-year stint from 1992 to 1994 providing game coverage of the Detroit Tigers, teaming with Bob Rathbun on WJR.



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