As much as the baseball world felt like it was caving in on the Seattle Mariners, in reality it wasn’t. Seattle might have lost their two previous home games and seven straight to Toronto inside T-Mobile Park, the series was level 2-2 and momentum could turn at an instant.
A fan base starved for a World Series felt empty after the first two games of this series, with so much left on the table. But this American League Championship Series had another turn, this time in favor of the Mariners.
On a Eugenio Suarez grand slam in the eighth inning, the Seattle Mariners are now closer to the world series than ever before. With a 6-2 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Oct. 17, the Mariners lead the series 3-2 in the American League Championship Series. “I’ve been waiting for games like this my wh