Texas Rangers at Seattle Mariners: season finale

Hard to believe the end of the season is already here. Seems like yesterday we all gathered down in Peoria, AZ for the start of spring training. Lots of surprises since, including the M's trying to notch their 85th win of the season today. For me, the highlight of the season would have to be a pair of walkoff hits, one a single by Ken Griffey Jr. against the White Sox in that 14-inning game back in August, and then Ichiro hitting that two-run homer off Mariano Rivera and the Yankees a couple of weeks ago. Neither mattered much in the overall scheme of the playoff race, since the Mariners had pretty much fallen out of it by then. Early on, there was the 15-inning victory by the Mariners over Oakland. Also, that season-opening road trip to Minneapolis and Oakland that pretty much set the tone for the 155 games to follow. There was the heartbreak of blowing those two saves in Texas early on, then that meltdown in an attempted series sweep in Anaheim in late-May. We saw players ar...