The Seattle Mariners slid into the 1995 American League Championship series exhausted. They had staged an incredible comeback over the New York Yankees to win the Division Series in five games. Only two of the five games in that series had finished in under four hours, and the series came on the tail of another incredible comeback to win the American League West Division and earn the team’s first postseason appearance.
The Mariners leaned on ace starter Randy Johnson in the final game of the division series, when he made a relief appearance and pitched into the eleventh inning to send the Yankees home.