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For the love of a pennant race: players and fans alike enjoy the special feeling of being caught up in the chase for a championship.
MARINERS PLAYERS WOULD come to the ballpark at noon and reluctantly leave past midnight. The previously morgue-like Kingdome was rocking like it never had before, the never-used Mariners bandwagon suddenly overflowing with delirious new converts.
Maybe it started with Ken Griffey Jr.'s game-winning home run off the yankees' John Wetteland, eight years ago. Maybe it was Tino Martinez's two-run walkoff blast off Oakland's Dennis Eckersley, or Doug Strange's ninth-inning shocker off Texas' Jeff Russell.
Who knows? It crept up on everyone, fans as well as players. All the Mariners knew is that eventually they felt they couldn't lose, and that when they did, ...
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