page_title: Calgary Cannons
section_title: Pennant chases
hierarchical_section_title: Calgary Cannons / History / Pennant chases
caption_attribution_description: English: Alex Rodriguez batting during a 1994 Calgary Cannons minor league baseball game.
context_page_description: The Calgary Cannons were a minor league baseball team located in Calgary, Alberta, for 18 seasons, from 1985 until 2002. They were a member of the AAA Pacific Coast League and played at Foothills Stadium. The Cannons displaced the Calgary Expos, who played in the rookie level Pioneer League from 1977 until 1984. The team was previously known as the Salt Lake City Gulls before being relocated to Calgary. Following the 2002 season, the team moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where they became the Isotopes.
  The Cannons played 2,538 regular season games in Calgary, compiling a record of 1,225–1,308. They qualified for the playoffs five times: 1985, 1987, 1989, and 1991 as an affiliate of the Seattle Mariners, and 1998 as an affiliate of the Chicago White Sox. They reached the PCL Championship Series three times, in 1987, 1991, and 1998, though they never won a title.
  More than 400 Major League players wore a Cannons jersey, including Alex Rodriguez, Edgar Martínez, Danny Tartabull, and Jim Abbott. Two players pitched no-hitters with the Cannons: Frank Wills in 1985, and Erik Hanson in 1988. In 1985, Tartabull led all professional baseball players with 43 home runs.
context_section_description: Calgary again made the playoffs in 1987, finishing atop the North Division second half standings with a record of 46–25.  The Cannons' overall record of 84–57 would ultimately stand as the best record the team compiled in Calgary. The Cannons lost the first two games of the Northern Division Championship Series against the Tacoma Tigers on the road before returning to Calgary to sweep the final three games of the series.  Parker described the game five victory as "the biggest moment in Calgary baseball history."  The Cannons faced the Albuquerque Dukes in the Pacific Coast League Championship Series.  After splitting the first two games in Calgary, the Cannons dropped the next two in Albuquerque as the Dukes won their fourth PCL championship in ten years.
  The Cannons made their third playoff appearance in five years in 1989 by winning the second-half pennant with a record of 42–29. The record represented a worst-to-first result for Calgary, as the club finished last in the PCL North in the first half with a 28–43 record.  The Guns faced the Vancouver Canadians in a rematch of the 1985 North Division Final.  As in 1985, Vancouver swept Calgary in three games.
  The 1991 season marked the fourth playoff appearance for the Cannons, who posted a 45–24 record in the second half.  The Cannons swept the Portland Beavers in three games to claim the second Northern Division pennant in franchise history.  They also won their first playoff road-games in team history in setting up a championship clash with the Tucson Toros. Calgary won the first two games of the best-of-five series at home over Tucson, giving them three chances to win the title.  The Cannons, however, dropped the final three games in Tucson, losing the title in the process.  In the fifth game, the Cannons were forced to start Dennis Powell on two days' rest after the Mariners unexpectedly recalled intended starter Dave Fleming prior to the game.  The move left Russ Parker "upset" and "dumbfounded".  The relationship between the Mariners and Cannons was never the same.
caption: Alex Rodriguez in 1994
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