1971 Pittsburgh Pirates

To be eligible their Cinderella-hood, I must start by stating that the 1971 Pittsburgh Pirates were lots good. They won 97 regular season games and buzzed through the San Francisco Giants at a four-game NLCS.
But the Baltimore Oriole team they faced in that year’s World Series was just another monster, a 101-win titan that featured four 20-game winners.
After the O’s took the first two matches, most folks penciled the defending champs to get a repeat.
Then the improbable, a three-game run which saw them beat Mike Cuellar, Pat Dobson and Dave McNally in order. After dropping Game 6, the Pirates responded with a Game 7 street win that would cement one of the great upsets in Series history.
1995 Seattle Mariners
Before 1995, the Seattle Mariners had completed over .500 just twice in their 18-year existence and never qualified for the playoffs.
With every losing campaign, the prospect of baseball at the Pacific Northwest grew darker and darker. That was, after all, the city that had lost its first franchise, the Seattle Pilots, after only 1 season.
Midway through that strike-shortened ???95 season, it looked like the same. On August 20, the Mariners were 53-53 and 12.5 games behind the first-place California Angels.
Then the improbable, a scorching encounter within the season’s final month and change combined with a epic Angels collapse. The clubs finished the regular season tied, and Seattle capped the comeback by winning a one-game playoff.
In the franchise’s first playoff series they dropped the opening two games to the Yankees before mounting an additional mad comeback to force a decisive Game 5. Once there, Seattle put a cherry atop their unlikely season by walking-off against New York at the bottom of the 11th inning.
The Mariners would shed from the ALCS to the Cleveland Indians, but also much good came in the ???95 season to end on such a sour note.
Randy Johnson became a superstar, Edgar Martinez struck on the greatest high of his remarkable career, along with the indelible picture of Ken Griffey Jr. giggling under an onslaught of teammates signified baseball salvation in Seattle.

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