Good-luck charms in baseball come in many forms: We’ve seen a Rally Monkey and Rally Squirrel, a Rally Cat and rally hats. Just this season, the Padres found a spark with a black panther statue (60 percent of the time, it works all the time).
On Saturday, one Mariners fan got creative. Call it a re-shoe-venation in Seattle.
The Mariners’ epic comeback in a 10-9 win over the Blue Jays in Toronto — a game they trailed by seven runs at one point — to claim an AL Wild Card Series victory came with some help back home.
It’s no longer a best-of-three series. It’s now one game. The winner heads to Los Angeles to face the Dodgers in the NLDS. The loser looks ahead to Spring Training.
From one of the largest comebacks in postseason history to a feat that had only been accomplished by three other players, it was a day to remember across baseball.
Seattle became just the sixth team to climb back from at least six runs down to win a playoff game. Here is a look at those breathtaking comebacks, the biggest in postseason history.
Before there could be a 15th-inning walk-off home run in Cleveland on Saturday, there had to be a game-preserving defensive gem in the 12th. Without this play, the Guardians might not have pulled out the win.
On the 27th anniversary of the Edgar Martinez moment known in Seattle simply as “The Double,” the Mariners again keyed a late rally in October with two-base hits.
The postseason is where heroes are made, and while it’s rare, there are times when the hero is a rookie who shines on the big October stagewith a walk-off home run.
TB 0 @ CLE 1
SEA 10 @ TOR 9
SD 3 @ NYM 7
PHI 2 @ STL 0
Today’s Trivia Question
Who’s the only player older than Albert Pujols (42 years, 265 days) to have a multi-hit game in the postseason?