Just thought I'd switch up this week and give you a baseball game. Ever since my stint announcing home games for my team at school I've really been into baseball. This number comes from the 2001 season, the year in which the Seattle Mariners won an AL-record 116 games. However, one of their 46 losses came on a midsummer night in Cleveland.
Coming in, the Mariners had won 8 of their last 10. This was the third game of a four-game series against Cleveland, with Seattle taking the first two games of the set. For 6 1/2 innings, it looked like they would take this game, too, as they led 14-2 entering the bottom of the 7th.
Then the bottom fell out, as the Russell Branyan lead off the half-inning with a home run to right on the first pitch. The Indians would go on to score 12 runs over the final third of regulation (3 in the 7th, 4 in the 8th, 5 in the 9th) and then eventually win in the 11th on a Jolbert Cabrera walk-off single to left.
John Rocker was credited with the win and Jose Paniagua got the loss. Marty Cordova went 4-5 with a 2-run homer and a double.
Footage courtesy of ESPN, with Jon Miller and Rick Sutcliffe on the call.
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