CLEVELAND -- Mathematically, each individual win a team accrues over the course of a 162-game season counts the same in the standings. But some feel bigger than others.
That felt like the case for the Guardians on Friday night, and at the very least, it was memorable. Facing a Mariners team they are chasing in the American League Wild Card race, the Guardians erased a four-run first-inning deficit to rally for a 5-4 walk-off win at Progressive Field.
“It feels like a special one, especially kind of how the game started,” said left fielder Steven Kwan , whose sac fly in the ninth sent the Guardians home winners.
It was a poetic night, given the club held a pregame celebration for the 1995 Indians, who had a knack for pulling off comeback victories during their pennant-winning seaso