10-year anniversary of baseball’s greatest comeback

Ten years ago today, major league baseball witnessed its greatest comeback in history as the Cleveland Indians rallied from a 12-run deficit to defeat the Seattle Mariners 15-14 in 11 innings. Officially, it only tied the record. The Tigers rallied from a 12-run deficit to beat the White Sox on June 8, 1911, and the A’s came from a dozen back to down the Indians on June 15, 1925, but what happened on Aug. 5, 2011 might be more impressive than either. First, while the 1911 White Sox were a .500 team and the 1925 Indians below average, the 2011 Mariners tied the major league record with 116 wins in a season. Mighty nice coming from behind to defeat those guys. That gives Cleveland’s comeback the edge over the others. On that day, the Mariners scored four in the top of the second, and piled on eight more runs next inning. After the Indians plated two in a minor rally, the Mariners scored another pair of their own in the top of the fifth. With the game halfway to completion, t...