Seattle,
Fall 1995
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to the team’s first championship in eighteen years. Three more World Series victories for the Yankees followed in the next four years. But that doesn’t mean the Yanks weren’t good in 1995—they were. And the Mariners were underwhelming underdogs.
The Yankees won the first two games in the Bronx and then headed to Seattle’s cavernous Kingdome to win one more and close the deal. But it didn’t work out that way. The Mariners took the first game, and the second one. Going into Game Five, the Yankees were up against the wall. Of course, so were the Mariners. It was quite a set up.
The visiting Yankees were first up to bat, leading off with Wade Boggs. He struck out (K). Barry Williams met with a similar fate (K). Paul O’Neill came up to bat with a .300 batting average and flew out to the left fielder (F7). Three batters up, and three down. Next came the Mariners, whose first three batters fared no better. So, the first inning was a bust. When the Yankees came up at the top of the second, it was again three up and three down. We’re starting to wonder whether the fan scoring with his headphones on isn’t instead listening to National Public Radio. When the Mariners batted in the bottom of the inning, they showed some spunk but closed out the inning with no runs scored and two runners left on base (LOB). Then came the Yankees . . . Wait! We’re starting to sound like those annoying commentators who talk incessantly, never giving you a chance to see something for yourself. But we know you’re pretty savvy. Check out the scorecards on the next two pages and relive the action that mesmerized fans from the Atlantic to the Pacific that fine autumn day in 1995. Game on!.. . . .
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