Should also be mentioned that that Mariners team is tied for the most regular season wins in MLB history. Much of their success stemmed from an absolutely dominant bullpen (their entire bullpen pitched in this game). An astounding Indians comeback on so many different levels. I will never forget this game.
This is the reason that one of the main "Unwritten rules" in ⚾ about not piling on the score is bull💩...The team that's down doesn't want you to score any more but that doesn't prohibit them from doing all they can to get back in the game...Hypocrisy...If you don't want a team to score on you, pitch better...Seattle should've put another 10 on the board...
@@Woofrie I mean... you still have to swing at the plate. Baseball has a very high hand-eye coordination and mental acuity requirement, but it's not a tiring sport to play for anyone but the pitcher and catcher. The umpire gets more exercise than most of the position players. Outside of batting and fielding a VERY generous 10% of the game, everyone else either stands around for 45% of the game or literally sits down the other 45% of the game.
I always felt that if your team is winning big early in the game the only thing to do is to keep piling on the runs and crush the other team. These unwritten rules are bullshit, thats why their not written in the rule book.
I watched this game live on ESPN. An upstate NY kid whose hero was Jim Thome. It was a few weeks before I’d start middle school, 12 years old. Just a month before 9/11. It was a hot, humid night. I watched the whole game and jumped up and down with my sister screaming when they tied it and later won it. I would end up taking my first trip to the Hall of Fame a couple years or so later, and unexpectedly found Jolbert Cabrera’s broken bat barrel in one of the displays, signed in gold marker by Cabrera himself. It all sorta came full circle for me, and it’s engrained in my memory. Good shit! Great memories.
I was sitting in the left field bleachers that night with some friends who were visiting from St Louis. After the 7th inning, I wished them well and went home. Didn't even put on the radio for my drive home. Boy, was I surprised when I woke up the next morning and watched the morning news!
@@BananaOnGtag hes talking about the salty fans crying about the name change. Guardians or Indians, who cares, Im still a watching baseball in Cleveland. Still my favorite team. The people crying arent real baseball fans anyways.
And all the Mariners did that season…was win 116 Games to tie the all time record. If only they had held the lead in this game they would have had the all time record…but then losing this game probably fueled a lot of the subsequent wins
Cleveland loved coming back from double figures vs al west teams '98 down 10 runs to Oakland came back '99 Down by 11 vs Anaheim came back And this in vs Seattle
Russell Branyan had some real power. My family was at an Indianapolis Indians game about 25 years ago, sitting in the outfield lawn. My little brother and I were both under 10 years old so we got bored and started playing around under the scoreboard in right field (DEEP past the outfield wall). While we were messing around, Branyan launched a HR that seemed to come out of nowhere (since we weren’t really paying attention) and hit my brother right in the leg! 😂
This game may have been the greatest comeback (run deficit wise) but for me the Cubs vs Cardinals game on June 23, 1984 was the greatest comeback. Ryne sandberg tied the game in the 9th then10th innings against one of the best closers ever, Bruce Sutter. Cubs then won the game in extra innings.
This would be tied for the Largest Comeback as The Tigers trailed 13-1 in the First Game at Navin Field. They scored 13 runs in the Bottom of the Ninth to Win it.
I was there! I asked my dad in the 3rd inning if we should leave and he said, “you never leave a baseball game early.” When vizquel tied it with his triple, my dad and I are on the broadcast high fiving. What an awesome moment.
I was 9 years old and at this game with my brother, father, and grandfather. We left early because it seemed hopeless, and listened to Hamilton call it on the radio on the way home. When we tied it up, I couldn't believe it and remember being so mad that we left early. Looking back, it's cool to say I was at that game but I wish I could say I'd stayed to see the comeback.
I saw that game on tv. By the time Lofton got on first, there was an air of inevitability about the outcome, even with 2 outs in the bottom of the ninth and a 3-run lead.
Imagine that thing today, where they put to pitch one of the outfielders and let everyone know that "they are not trying to win anymore, just trying to finish the game" and that the other team should do the same, no home runs, etc. Oh how times have changed!! How the turntables.... (the office)
Tom Hamilton: "And the Indians dead and buried have completed the miracle." I remember that game. It happened Sunday, 8/5/2001. I was 12 years old. What a magical time that was.
It’s John HA-LLAMA. I miss the days when sports were covered by people who knew the players, no offense. But to be fair, it doesn’t look at anything to tell us know it don’t say it haha. But you do make dope videos, that just annoyed me. I’ll sub now tho
then the Indians in the ALDS beat Seatle by like 15 runs in one game. Seattle barely won the series in 5 games. considering they won 116 games it shoulda been a quick series
This is proof that baseball can be so unpredictable. Unlike football, basketball, or any sport with a “timer” baseball takes all the time needed for any event to take place. It’s so cool
@@djm5687 I know, but it’s not necessarily a “timer for the game” because a team could have all the chances they want to try and score, without a clock dictating they have a certain amount of time left
Impressive but not as much as in, I believe 1973 with the Giants down 7-0 to Pittsburgh and two down and no one on in the bottom of the 9th came back to win. Also Cincinnati also did came back from 7 down and 2 outs in the ninth against the Cubs a little later in the season.
Because purposely throwing at a guy who’s crowding the plate is frowned upon now and can lead to suspension so batters have nothing to fear unlike back then
wait, aren't teams supposed to NOT score if they hold a big lead and the other team gets all pissy when they do? so why do teams comeback and win it then? shouldn't they STOP scoring at 13?
The good old days! When player just hit the ball. Launch angle wasnt even the phrase yet. Im an Ms fan. I was in the 3rd grade and still remember this game
@@AndrewSchwankl Its not a tie unless you can cite the game. I couldn't find it. I also imagine that greatest comeback would go to the team that had the least amount of time to do it. It is a greater comeback if you are down 12 with 3 innings to go than if you are down 12 with 6 innings to go.
@@929mmr I guess you win, but I'm not lying. Baseball is a very old sport, and it's hard to imagine there were never any other games that matched. As for the game mentioned, I couldn't watch it directly; we had only 2 TV channels! But I watched the scoreboard from the game I watched, being discouraged that my team the Phillies were down 13-1! Then shocked to see later it was 13-12! I made sure to follow up the outcome of their win, and I think that was Mike Schmidt's 4 home run game. I'm willing to concede to your spec's, it was over 40 years ago and not that important to me in the long run.🤔
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