Yankees-Mariners '95 ALDS Game 5 with Adam Smith - Remember That Game

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🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Host Thomas Emerick welcomes Congressman Adam Smith—a lifelong Seattle Mariners fan and representative for Washington’s 9th Congressional district—to revisit one of the most dramatic postseason series in baseball history: the 1995 ALDS between the Mariners and Yankees. They draw parallels between that unforgettable Game 5 at the Kingdome and the 2025 ALDS thriller at T-Mobile Park, and explore how the ‘95 rally helped save baseball in Seattle.

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0:00.0	then Griffey bangs a single up the middle,
0:03.7	core goes from first to third,
0:05.0	so we got first and third,
0:06.5	nobody out, Edgar at the plate,
0:08.9	still down one.
0:14.3	It's October 95,
0:16.7	Yankees at Mariners,
0:18.3	game five.
0:20.2	This is Remember That Game, the podcast about sporting events that take you on a journey
0:24.9	and maybe chart the path of the zeitgeist.
0:29.3	I'm your host Thomas Emerick, and my guest is Representative Adam Smith of Washington's
0:34.8	9th Congressional District in Seattle and South King County.
0:38.9	As this Mariners team came up, you were the country's youngest state senator out of the
0:44.1	Seattle area there.
0:46.1	As the Mariners reached the American League Divisional Series in 95, were you getting any
0:53.1	deja vu while watching the ALDS in 2025?
0:58.7	Absolutely.
0:59.6	In fact, it's funny.
1:00.9	So I was my best friend growing up, but I were at the 1995 game five 30 years later.
1:08.3	I got two tickets to the last second, so I invited him because I figured
1:12.0	it would be good karma to 30 years later be at that game five. So it was a very similar experience.
1:19.4	Yeah, and Mariners founded 77, had never made the playoffs heading into the spring of 95,
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