TORONTO — How do you recover from an awful outing from your starting pitcher, a worse showing from one of your best relievers and a seven-run deficit with everything seemingly working against you and a sold-out crowd cheering against you like it’s Thunderdome?
You just keep playing the same stubborn way that led to you to your success during the regular season — relentless at-bats, trust in the hitters behind you and not trying to win the game by yourself.
In the chapters, not volumes, of the Mariners’ limited postseason history, the magic of Saturday night’s 10-9 comeback victory over the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre will be chronicled and remembered as the night the Mariners refused to accept defeat no matter how eventual it seemed to the Blue Jays, everyone jammed into the building ripe with baseball history and those watching the television broadcasts in both countries.
