Scott Servais couldnt believe what he was seeing when his phone buzzed Thursday morning. Servais on Thursday with the team spiraling and imperiling its chances of making the playoffs, but he found out from an alert on his phone of a Ken Rosenthal tweet reporting the news, le s than 90 minutes before he was due to meet with Seattles president of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto. It didnt sit well with Servais, 57, that thats how he and J.J. Redick Jersey his three kids and father, who were calling him after the news broke learned of his firing. Mariners manager Scott Servais was fired on Thursday. Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports That was one of the toughest things, obviously, learning that from an alert on my phone, Servais said Friday, . It was just the reality of what may be coming down here in the next few hours. When youre part of an organization for nine years, it feels like family. And it was alarming that I found out that way, but it happened. I cant say it didnt happen. It absolutely happened that way. Dipoto expre sed regret for how Servais found out about the news. Explore More In what has been one of my least favorite days in my profe sional life, the worst part of it was the fact that Scott and (hitting coach Jarret DeHart) found out about this over the crawl of a news channel, Dipoto told reporters Thursday. That, it crushes me and I know it hurts them a great deal. Rosenthal said on Foul Territory on Friday that that Servais learned of the firing through his reporting. Servais was in his ninth season managing the Mariners and had back-to-back 90-win seasons in 2021 and 22 before they went 88-74 last year. They only made the postseason once during his tenure, a five-game ALDS lo s to the Astros two years ago. Mariners president of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto (l.) with senior director of amateur scouting Scott Hunter (r.) during the 2024 MLB Draft. AP At the time of his firing, the Mariners, who once led the AL West this season by 10 games, were 64-64 and coming off a brutal 1-8 road trip. Entering Sundays rubber game against the Giants under new manager Dan Wilson, Seattle is 4.5 games behind the Astros for the division lead and 7.5 games out of the final wild-card spot. Servais was bracing for change if the Mariners mi sed the playoffs again, but he did not envision losing his job before the season was over. I knew probably at the end of the year, if we didnt get into the playoffs, whatever, that there would be kind of a reflection time on where the organization was at and where I fit moving forward, Servais said, per the Seattle Times. I just, my expectation was that Id get a chance to finish out the year. Unfortunately, it just didnt happen. Josh Hart Jersey