The Major League Baseball season is about to resume, and you’d have to be living under a rock to NOT know that the Mariners went into the All-Star break with a 14-game winning streak.
produced in-depth oral histories in 2015 and 2020, respectively. Ken Griffey Jr., Edgar Martinez, Randy Johnson, and Jay Buehner were just some of the players on that long-ago team, skippered by Lou Piniella, who captured the attention of the Northwest like it hadn’t been captured before .
The 1995 team was different than the editions that had been put on the field between 1977 and 1994. In addition, the previous season had come to a halt in August 1994 with a bitter labor dispute and months-long player strike, and the World Series was canceled that year for the first time since 1904. With a last-minute resolution to the labor issues the following spring, the ’95 season started late and was shortened, with just 144 games instead of the usual 162.
In August and September 1995, the Mariners kept winning implausible come-from-behind 9th inning clutch victories, and the “REFUSE TO LOSE” slogan became a rallying cry. In late September, they tied for the Wild Card playoff slot – which was a new thing in 1995 – and then had to play a one-game tiebreaker against the California Angels at the Kingdome on October 2.Seattle, simply put, went bananas.
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