Broadcasters

RICK RIZZS, the Mariners primary voice on radio, is in his 37th season with the broadcast team in 2022. In 2020, his 35 seasons with the Mariners surpassed Dave Niehaus as the longest-tenured broadcaster in club history. Rick has been a part of the Mariners broadcast team continuously since 1995, following an original nine-year stint with the club from 1983-1991.

Rick received the 2017 Keith Jackson Award from the Seattle Sports Commission for excellence in communicating the sports stories of our state.

Rick is a 1975 graduate of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. From 1975-80, he handled double-A baseball play-by-play duties for Alexandria, Amarillo and Memphis. He became the sports director at WBNS radio in Columbus, Ohio in 1981, where he called Ohio State football and Triple-A baseball for two seasons. He was named the Ohio "Sportscaster of the Year" in 1981 by the Ohio Sportscasters Association. Rick was originally hired to broadcast Mariners games in 1983 and spent nine seasons with the club. In 2000, Rick was named the Chicago-area sportscaster of the year by the Chicago Pitch and Hit Club. He also spent three seasons calling the play-by-play with Bob Rathbun on radio for the Detroit Tigers from 1992-94.

Throughout the year, Rick also heads Toys For Kids, a non-profit he co-founded in 1995. In 2021, Toys for Kids donated toys for more than 16,000 homeless and hospitalized children and presented eight $5,000 Dave Henderson college scholarship awards. Rick resides in Issaquah. He has one son, Nick, two grandsons, Jaxon and Braedon, and one granddaughter, Ryan.

MIKE BLOWERS, who enters his 16th season as the Mariners television analyst, is a long-time fan favorite who played 3 stints with the Mariners (1992-1995, 1997, 1999). Prior to joining the Mariners broadcast team in 2007, Blowers spent four years as the pre- and postgame analyst on KOMO 1000 News broadcasts of Mariners games.

Blowers was a stand-out at Bethel High School in Spanaway, WA, and was a Pac-10 Triple Crown winner while with the University of Washington. During his 11-year MLB career, Blowers also played for the Yankees (1989-91), Dodgers (1996) and Athletics (1998). He played in the postseason with the Mariners in 1995 and 1997. During Seattle's memorable 1995 season, he set career highs in almost every statistical category, including 113 hits, 24 doubles, 23 homers and 96 RBI. He tied a Major League record with three grand slams in a single month in August of '95, when he hit .283 with nine homers and a club-record tying 33 RBI. Blowers received the first-ever "Unsung Hero" award from the Seattle chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America in 1993. He was originally selected by the Montreal Expos in the 10th round of the 1986 June draft. After being traded to the Yankees on Aug. 29, 1989, Blowers made his Major League debut with the Yankees on Sept. 1 vs. California. He made his first ML start against the Mariners on Sept. 5, 1989. Blowers lives in Graham, with his wife Nicole and their four children.

GARY HILL JR. enters his fifth season as the Executive Producer/Engineer for all Mariners radio broadcasts in 2022. The Tacoma native joined the club full-time in 2018 after spending 8 seasons in a variety of roles with the Mariners Radio Network from 2010-2017.

Since 2010, Gary has hosted Mariners pre- and post-game shows, filled in on play-by-play duties, hosted the Mariners official daily podcast and contributed to the Sunday Mariners Magazine. In his current role, he continues to have an on-air presence as a member of the Mariners broadcast team. After graduating from Washington State University in 2000, Gary has been a fixture on local sports radio, covering baseball, basketball and football. He is also currently the voice of University of Washington women's basketball. Gary resides in Burien, Wash., with his wife, Mary, children, Finley and Baker, and dog Satchel.