I didn't have a season ticket, but I went to about 15 regular season games. I'd get in line early and run up to right field and get a good seat in the front row. I had to buy tickets to all of the postseason games including the World Series. That was fine with me. I had three tickets in the second deck in center field a little bit on the left field side in the 7th row I think. So I saw the three ALDS games in the Kingdome and the three ALCS games in the Kingdome. In order to get my money back, I had to return the unused tickets to ALCS game 7 and the tickets for the three World Series games that would have been played in the Kingdome. I wish I could have kept those World Series tickets or that I would have at least thought to take a picture of those World Series tickets.
@@andrewm4564I had two tickets in centerfield in the third deck. “300” level. Everything else you wrote - I could have written almost word for word. When Edgar hit that Grand Slam, the ball came directly at me, hovered at my eye level, and dropped down over the fence right below me. The crowd noise, the explosion that followed, was incredible. 😏
@@brettcomstock1156 I have been a baseball fan since 1964. I lived in South Jersey and followed the Phillies. 1964 was the year they collapsed like the Angels did in 1995.. I lived in Seattle from 1981 to 1997. I went to a lot of M's games during those years when there were 10,000 people in the stands on a good day. I used to go in when the gates opened and catch home run balls during batting practice. 1995 was a great year after all those down years. Since 1997 I have lived near Chicago. In 2016, I got to experience the Cubs winning their first World Series since 1908. Joe Maddon managed the Cubs in 2016, but he was also a coach for the Angels in 1995. 2016 was a great year in Chicago, but 1995 in Seattle was the best season for me.
Three of the five were postseason classics. The other two were merely great games. This one was epic. I was lucky to be there. Bill Risley wins the ultimate bar-bet: Name the Mariner that had the biggest save in Mariners history? Yeah - Risley. I loved the ‘95 M’s like no other team, regardless to which sport. They came back. They always came back, and refused to lose. The slogan was perfect, as this game demonstrates. RIP Dave Niehaus. ☮️❤️
I was sitting in center field that day. I've never been in a louder building than when Edgar goes yard to put the M's on the board-maybe it was from getting blitzed the night before watching the RJ masterpiece. What a series. Wish I could've been there for game 5...
Edgar’s grand slam in this game tends to be overlooked thanks to his game 5 heroics. To me, that grand slam is every bit as iconic as his double the next night.
The 1995 baseball playoffs were a nightmare to watch for a baseball fan because they were regionalized instead of broadcast to the entire nation. So if you lived in the Pacific time zone, you could only watch the Mariners-Yankees series and the Dodgers-Reds series. You literally needed a c-band style satellite dish in order to bypass this.
I lived in Southern California and only remember being able to watch Reds-Dodgers until this series went to game 5. It’s been so long ago but I don’t remember being able to watch games 1-4 of this series. I was also unable to watch a single game of the NLCS.
Lovers of good baseball loved the M's of this era: all of them were incredible. As a kid, I wrote to Tino Martinez with a kid's letter, and he sent back a signed Rookie card when he was on the 88 U.S.A. Olympic team
What a great day….down 5-0 and had to fight back on all night. My dad , my brothers and myself were pacing all night . When Edgar ripped this out of the park, we went ballistic and our phone went off the hook. And then I remember I had tickets for Game 5. Didn’t think we were gonna top that Grand Slam lol.
The broadcasters were really good -- Jim Kaat, and is it Brent Musburger? Far better than most. Joe Garigiola was one of my favorites, along with Vin Scully. The call of the game is one of the lost arts in baseball
My aunt and mom are somewhere in the stands. My aunt said she lost her voice after Edgar's grand salami, and I can see why. Wish I could've been around for the Kingdome.
Yankees fan here. I remember I thought we had it up 5-0 then all hell broke loose. Haha. I was so mad. Thought Bernie tied it at the end there. Looking back, I’m glad we lost because this series saved the Mariners franchise.
Randy had arm issues from over use and only started 8 games in 96. He was probably also counting down go to another team being 31 yrs old. That trade always bothered me as a kid but looking back as an adult I understand the environment.
After game 2, everyone thought the Yankees had it in the bag. I would have never thought the Mariners could beat the up and coming Yankees, nevermind beat them three times in a row in consecutive elimination games. And it's not like they cruised through those games either. They trailed through most of games 4 and 5 and were a mere handful of outs from losing game 5 until they came back in the 8th and AGAIN in the 11th. It's too bad they couldn't find that tenacity again in the ALCS but it was still amazing what they pulled off against New York.
Ms spent all their energy chasing down the Angels to even make the playoffs then ran into the Yankee buzzsaw. Had the Indians down 2-1 but nothing left in the tank after that. As amazing as Randy was during that run he gave it all he had and finally ran out against the Indians.
It was so weird hearing Brent Musburger announcing a baseball game on a college football Saturday. Especially since his football partner Dick Vermeil had just been on ABC right before this game calling a Notre Dame-Washington game which was also in Seattle! I think Mark Jones subbed for Brent that day on the football game.
Mark Jones filled in for John Saunders in New York this day with Todd Blackledge. Roger Twibell filled in for Brent Musburger at Husky Stadium for the game.
I don't get why the Yankees tried to tag out Cora on that bunt... It was obvious by the time they got to the ball they couldn't catch him but if they had thrown it to first they had a decent chance to get him out
As great as Wetteland was in 1996 and getting WS MVP. The Yankees clearly made the right choice in letting him go in 1995 he was inconsistent and was horriiable in ALDS and he wasn't same closer in late 90s
I don't understand Pinella's philosophy in this series. They won despite his bonehead managing. The Yankees were stacked with left handed hitters. I guess Pinella didn't know that
He made a mistake by not adding a lefty reliever to the playoff roster. That meant he had pretty much Norm Charlton as the only lefty in the bullpen for this series.
I would say it was the way he lost Game 5--keeping David Cone in for 140+ pitches while he's throwing every ball in the dirt and giving up the lead, losing faith in his relief aces Wetteland and Howe, pitching Jack McDowell on 1 days' rest in relief (of course Lou did the same thing with Randy Johnson but that was a.) a Cy Young winner, and b.) arguably the best option they had anyway), continuing to put the decrepit corpse of Dion James into the lineup, and other questionable moves.
Losing 3 in a row didn't help, but Steinbrenner felt a change was needed to put the Yankees over the top. By this point (a couple years removed from his suspension), he was more in control. Even though he did a better job listening to his baseball people, he was still temperamental. He even meddled a bit during the season, butting heads with Showalter (in a classic Stein move, he tried firing Showalter's coaches when the Yanks were struggling earlier in the year) Both Showalter and Gene Michael (Yankees GM) were gone at the end of the season, replaced with Joe Torre and Bob Watson respectively. Showalter was in the same position Torre was when he left the Yankees, in that both thought they were negotiating for a new contract, but when they didn't take the first offer presented, that the Yankees knew they weren't going to take, the offers was rescinded and the Yankees went in another direction.
@@pronkb000 McDowell was the best option Showalter had at that point. Wetteland had gotten torched in this game, and Showalter lost faith in him. That was likely the reason Showalter went with Cone to the point of exhaustion in game 5 as well; he didn't trust his primary relievers. Too bad Mariano was a rookie and a relative unknown at that point; like far too many managers, Showalter had a preference for veterans.
@Harry Engel he was suspended from 1990-93. Long story, but basically, he took his feud with Dave Winfield to another level by paying Howie Spira (a gambler) to dig up dirt on Winfield (possibly for extortion purposes). When the suspension was announced, the crowd cheered. One of a few highlights from a last place season.
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Edgar's first HR: 57:28
Second HR: 3:03:00
I have had many great moments at a lot of different sporting events, but I don't think I've ever had as much fun as these Mariners fans had in 1995.
I was at each of these 3 home games, as well as 50 games during the regular season. '95 was my first as a season ticket holder and WOW what a payoff!
I didn't have a season ticket, but I went to about 15 regular season games. I'd get in line early and run up to right field and get a good seat in the front row. I had to buy tickets to all of the postseason games including the World Series. That was fine with me. I had three tickets in the second deck in center field a little bit on the left field side in the 7th row I think. So I saw the three ALDS games in the Kingdome and the three ALCS games in the Kingdome. In order to get my money back, I had to return the unused tickets to ALCS game 7 and the tickets for the three World Series games that would have been played in the Kingdome. I wish I could have kept those World Series tickets or that I would have at least thought to take a picture of those World Series tickets.
@@andrewm4564I had two tickets in centerfield in the third deck. “300” level. Everything else you wrote - I could have written almost word for word.
When Edgar hit that Grand Slam, the ball came directly at me, hovered at my eye level, and dropped down over the fence right below me. The crowd noise, the explosion that followed, was incredible. 😏
@@brettcomstock1156 I have been a baseball fan since 1964. I lived in South Jersey and followed the Phillies. 1964 was the year they collapsed like the Angels did in 1995.. I lived in Seattle from 1981 to 1997. I went to a lot of M's games during those years when there were 10,000 people in the stands on a good day. I used to go in when the gates opened and catch home run balls during batting practice. 1995 was a great year after all those down years. Since 1997 I have lived near Chicago. In 2016, I got to experience the Cubs winning their first World Series since 1908. Joe Maddon managed the Cubs in 2016, but he was also a coach for the Angels in 1995. 2016 was a great year in Chicago, but 1995 in Seattle was the best season for me.
Three of the five were postseason classics. The other two were merely great games. This one was epic. I was lucky to be there. Bill Risley wins the ultimate bar-bet: Name the Mariner that had the biggest save in Mariners history? Yeah - Risley. I loved the ‘95 M’s like no other team, regardless to which sport. They came back. They always came back, and refused to lose. The slogan was perfect, as this game demonstrates.
RIP Dave Niehaus. ☮️❤️
I was sitting in center field that day. I've never been in a louder building than when Edgar goes yard to put the M's on the board-maybe it was from getting blitzed the night before watching the RJ masterpiece. What a series. Wish I could've been there for game 5...
Your blessed to have that in your mental rolodex!
Edgar’s grand slam in this game tends to be overlooked thanks to his game 5 heroics. To me, that grand slam is every bit as iconic as his double the next night.
Sojo walk up music: Maccarena; 90s
I have wanted to watch this game forever-let alone when there’s no sports on. Thank you SO much for putting this up!
The 1995 baseball playoffs were a nightmare to watch for a baseball fan because they were regionalized instead of broadcast to the entire nation. So if you lived in the Pacific time zone, you could only watch the Mariners-Yankees series and the Dodgers-Reds series. You literally needed a c-band style satellite dish in order to bypass this.
I lived in Southern California and only remember being able to watch Reds-Dodgers until this series went to game 5. It’s been so long ago but I don’t remember being able to watch games 1-4 of this series.
I was also unable to watch a single game of the NLCS.
This is the Game I remember more than Game 5. Thanks for posting this
The Mariner fans that season were some of the most raucous I've ever heard.
Even though the Kingdom was old and falling apart the atmosphere in it looks way better than where they play now.
@@MeneTekelUpharsin That’s usually how it is. New Yankee stadium has nothing on the old one in terms of atmosphere.
to this day, this is still my favorite series ever… and i’m not a yankees or mariners fan… this series was just so entertaining
3:04:47 “Shout”! Us Mariner fans used to get louder with that classic! Miss those days😭
I hope that man still has the Martinez home run ball….to have the peak of Seattle baseball in your cabinet is no small thing.
Lovers of good baseball loved the M's of this era: all of them were incredible. As a kid, I wrote to Tino Martinez with a kid's letter, and he sent back a signed Rookie card when he was on the 88 U.S.A. Olympic team
Thank you so much for posting this. I’ve always wanted to watch this game
What a great day….down 5-0 and had to fight back on all night. My dad , my brothers and myself were pacing all night . When Edgar ripped this out of the park, we went ballistic and our phone went off the hook.
And then I remember I had tickets for Game 5. Didn’t think we were gonna top that Grand Slam lol.
Edgar, coming in clutch. I remember the Yankees had a helluva hard time getting him out this entire series.
He bat .571 for the series... they didn't have a hard time getting him out, they just never got him out at all.
The broadcasters were really good -- Jim Kaat, and is it Brent Musburger? Far better than most. Joe Garigiola was one of my favorites, along with Vin Scully. The call of the game is one of the lost arts in baseball
My aunt and mom are somewhere in the stands. My aunt said she lost her voice after Edgar's grand salami, and I can see why. Wish I could've been around for the Kingdome.
3:21:04
This Lou Piniella/Bobby Ayala exchange is freaking priceless and deserves more attention. 😬
I watched every game at home in 95, best ever , we were what, 10 games out , and damn near made it, never forget it
13 games out in early August
They talk about JRs sweet swing, and it was, but Edgar's was just as good
I wish we could relive that run….
Looks like maybe this years Mariners are poised for a run.
@@mattieaflo they're looking good for it, but I'm saying they won't make it, so I can be proven wrong, know what I'm saying
@@timbungarner3842 lol Trust me I know Tim. After 21 years, I’ll believe it when I see it
Yankees fan here. I remember I thought we had it up 5-0 then all hell broke loose. Haha. I was so mad. Thought Bernie tied it at the end there.
Looking back, I’m glad we lost because this series saved the Mariners franchise.
Listen to the volume in that place ! Damn !!
Jeff Nelson, Tino and Sojo all went to Yankees an won 4 WS Rings. Also were key factors on winning those series especially Tino
Randy had arm issues from over use and only started 8 games in 96. He was probably also counting down go to another team being 31 yrs old. That trade always bothered me as a kid but looking back as an adult I understand the environment.
Been looking for this forever. Thank you!
Sincerely, thank you for this.
Thank you for uploading this !!!!!
After game 2, everyone thought the Yankees had it in the bag. I would have never thought the Mariners could beat the up and coming Yankees, nevermind beat them three times in a row in consecutive elimination games. And it's not like they cruised through those games either. They trailed through most of games 4 and 5 and were a mere handful of outs from losing game 5 until they came back in the 8th and AGAIN in the 11th. It's too bad they couldn't find that tenacity again in the ALCS but it was still amazing what they pulled off against New York.
Ms spent all their energy chasing down the Angels to even make the playoffs then ran into the Yankee buzzsaw. Had the Indians down 2-1 but nothing left in the tank after that. As amazing as Randy was during that run he gave it all he had and finally ran out against the Indians.
3:04:04 Get the rye bread and the mustard this time, grandma! It is a grand salami! And the Mariners lead it ten to six! I don't believe it!
RIP to the legend Dave Niehaus.
7:44. flowers catch was insane
He shoulda let it drop foul and Boggs wouldn't have scored
Only thing that could have made this video better is if it could have synced with the local radio broadcast.
What the fuck is this aspect ratio?!? My brain is melting!!!
It was so weird hearing Brent Musburger announcing a baseball game on a college football Saturday. Especially since his football partner Dick Vermeil had just been on ABC right before this game calling a Notre Dame-Washington game which was also in Seattle! I think Mark Jones subbed for Brent that day on the football game.
Mark Jones filled in for John Saunders in New York this day with Todd Blackledge. Roger Twibell filled in for Brent Musburger at Husky Stadium for the game.
Bingo!
And Jack Arute was the sideline/field reporter for both games.
I don't get why the Yankees tried to tag out Cora on that bunt... It was obvious by the time they got to the ball they couldn't catch him but if they had thrown it to first they had a decent chance to get him out
Greg Maddox: one Of the best pitchers ever.
Also Greg Maddox: golf sandbagger and country club hustler…
good to see that chris bosio looked like an elf even in 1995
51:16 Fans were booing but I think the Ump made a good call. Looks like Mattingly was never touched. Although it was very very close.
As great as Wetteland was in 1996 and getting WS MVP. The Yankees clearly made the right choice in letting him go in 1995 he was inconsistent and was horriiable in ALDS and he wasn't same closer in late 90s
Simpler times.
Damn! It cuts before mariner moose slams into the outfield wall
Oh and why does Kamineki look like he’s sped up compared to the rest of them?
Great day at the office for Edgar 2 home runs 7 rbi lol
Sin Dudas fue una d las mejores series divisionales donde Edgar Martinez se robo El show
classic MLB playoffs
Jeez 30 hits!
3:00:57 Edgar's grand slam at bat
That Seattle team had a couple of future Yankees - Tino Martinez and A-Rod.
Nobody cares
And Luis Sojo.
And Jeff Nelson
Awww yeah.... the days of 91 mph fastballs and low-spin curveballs!
you wouldn't happen to have game 1 of this series by chance
Two things this game absolutely proves:
Edgar Martinez is the GOAT DH
Bobby Ayala absolutely stinks
Edgar vs Ortiz is the ultimate comparison. Their numbers are pretty damn close.
This game didn’t prove Ayala sucked….we already knew that well before this.
3:04:15 Game 5? Foreshadowing?? Hello???
The ONLY crowd reaction greater than the one for the grand slam was Jose Bautista's no doubter in the 2015 ALDS against the texas crybabies.
omg thank you
I hate the Yankees but I would've loved to see Donnie Baseball get a ring. Should've kept him for 96.
Put on the Scoreboard
he deep sixed it
3:03:54
👎👎👎👎
I don't understand Pinella's philosophy in this series. They won despite his bonehead managing. The Yankees were stacked with left handed hitters. I guess Pinella didn't know that
He made a mistake by not adding a lefty reliever to the playoff roster. That meant he had pretty much Norm Charlton as the only lefty in the bullpen for this series.
If Blowers shoulda let that ball drop foul in the first
The Mariners probably would have won in 4 if Johnson would have pitched games 1&4
We had to keep throwing out Johnson just to even get to this game. I wish we also could have saved him for Cleveland too but…it is what it is….
A-Rod
Is this why Buck Showalter wasn't manager in 96? For losing 3 in a row to end playoffs?
I would say it was the way he lost Game 5--keeping David Cone in for 140+ pitches while he's throwing every ball in the dirt and giving up the lead, losing faith in his relief aces Wetteland and Howe, pitching Jack McDowell on 1 days' rest in relief (of course Lou did the same thing with Randy Johnson but that was a.) a Cy Young winner, and b.) arguably the best option they had anyway), continuing to put the decrepit corpse of Dion James into the lineup, and other questionable moves.
Losing 3 in a row didn't help, but Steinbrenner felt a change was needed to put the Yankees over the top. By this point (a couple years removed from his suspension), he was more in control. Even though he did a better job listening to his baseball people, he was still temperamental. He even meddled a bit during the season, butting heads with Showalter (in a classic Stein move, he tried firing Showalter's coaches when the Yanks were struggling earlier in the year) Both Showalter and Gene Michael (Yankees GM) were gone at the end of the season, replaced with Joe Torre and Bob Watson respectively.
Showalter was in the same position Torre was when he left the Yankees, in that both thought they were negotiating for a new contract, but when they didn't take the first offer presented, that the Yankees knew they weren't going to take, the offers was rescinded and the Yankees went in another direction.
@@pronkb000 McDowell was the best option Showalter had at that point. Wetteland had gotten torched in this game, and Showalter lost faith in him. That was likely the reason Showalter went with Cone to the point of exhaustion in game 5 as well; he didn't trust his primary relievers. Too bad Mariano was a rookie and a relative unknown at that point; like far too many managers, Showalter had a preference for veterans.
@Harry Engel he was suspended from 1990-93. Long story, but basically, he took his feud with Dave Winfield to another level by paying Howie Spira (a gambler) to dig up dirt on Winfield (possibly for extortion purposes). When the suspension was announced, the crowd cheered. One of a few highlights from a last place season.
@@pronkb000 For what it's worth, McDowell was also a CYA winner
Why put spoilers in the title?