12 Years Ago Today, Winning Mariner Baseball Began

Believe it--it was 12 years ago today that Ken Griffey Jr. hit that walk-off homer off John Wetteland that was later credited with sparking the Mariners '95 run.

The M's rally, if you remember, started with two outs and nobody on, when Vince Coleman--the tying run--worked a seven-pitch walk off John Wetteland. He stole second and third, then scored when Joey Cora's soft liner to short glanced off of Tony Fernandez' glove. Griffey's game-winner came on the next pitch.

I was watching the game over CNN Headline News Scoreticker and saw this:

Yankees 7
Mariners 9
Bot 9

"Wait--9-7 in the bottom of the ninth," I thought. "That means we won!" I immediately got a phone call from a friend, and we screamed for awhile. I went to the next three games of that series (the M's won two of them) and the race was on.

Where were you?