Of the 2,247 hits throughout Edgar Martinez’s career, 233 of them gave the Mariners the lead. Another 65 tied the game, and five times did Edgar deliver the walk-off blow.
None was more memorable than the line drive down the left field line he hit off Jack McDowell on Oct. 8, 1995. But, thanks mostly to Ken Griffey Jr.’s single the batter prior, ‘The Double’ just misses our list of Edgar’s most clutch hits. We used the metric WPA, or Win Probability Added, to determine the hits that most changed the tide of each game.
The Mariners already had a 68% chance to win that ALDS Game 5 when Martinez stepped to the plate.