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The Angels were leading the American League West by 10 + 1 ⁄ 2-game lead over the Texas Rangers and an 11 + 1 ⁄ 2-game lead over the Seattle Mariners on August 16 and were still atop the division, leading Seattle by six games and Texas by 7 + 1 ⁄ 2, when a nine-game losing streak from September 13 to 23 dropped them out of first place.
The 1995 Seattle Mariners season was the 19th in the history of the franchise. The team finished with a regular season record of 79–66 (.545) to win their first American League West title, after having been down by as many as 13 games in early August.
The 1995 American League Division Series (ALDS), the opening round of the American League side in Major League Baseball’s (MLB) 1995 postseason, began on Tuesday, October 3, and ended on Sunday, October 8, with the champions of the three AL divisions—along with a "wild card" team—participating in two best-of-five series.
The 1995 American League West tie-breaker game was a one-game extension to Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1995 regular season; the California Angels and Seattle Mariners met to determine the winner of the American League's (AL) West Division. It was played at the Kingdome in Seattle, on October 2, 1995. [3]
MLB Network documentary shines spotlight on 1995 Mariners team that saved baseball in Seattle.
However, as the series shifted to The Kingdome in Seattle, the Mariners, who had made a 13-game comeback on the California Angels to force a one-game playoff (in which the Mariners' ace Randy Johnson got the win), the Mariners won games 3 and 4 to cause a classic game 5, in which the Mariners came back three times to win on Edgar Martínez's ...
If the Braves drop another game in Miami and leave the division on the table, things could get dicey for MLB's schedule-makers. Tigers at Mariners doubleheader, 6:10 ET: There is a lot of baseball ...
The Double was a double hit by the Seattle Mariners' Edgar Martínez in Game 5 of Major League Baseball's 1995 American League Division Series on October 8, 1995. Trailing by one run in the bottom half of the 11th inning, with Joey Cora on third base and Ken Griffey Jr. on first, Martinez's hit drove in Cora and Griffey, giving the Mariners a 6–5 victory over the New York Yankees to clinch ...