With the Mariners trailing the Toronto Blue Jays 8-2 in the eighth inning, Benji King and his parents, Stephen and Mary, walked out of Seattle's T-Mobile Park.

"He's got school in the morning," Mary said. They figured it was better for their 10-year-old son to get a good night's sleep than stay, hoping for a ninth-inning rally in Game Four of the American League Championship Series.

"This is the type of thing the Mariners do every year - they get your hopes up," and leave you disappointed, Benji said. The Mariners returned home with plenty of hope after taking the first two games in Toronto - only to drop the next two in front of sold-out crowds in Seattle.

Since their first season in 1977, the team have lost more games than they have won - 4,022 games to be exact. They have the eighth

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