Game Eight
Twins avoid their first losing steak of the season but pounding the Seattle Mariners 11 to 5. Kirby Puckett adds two more home runs to increase his league leading total to 14. George Kenneth Griffey Jr. The Kid, Junior. #24. The man who scored the run that saved baseball in Seattle. What more can you say about Griffey that hasn't already been said. He was the star of the Mariners from the moment he put on the uniform. Expectations were big, and he didn't disappoint. His dad, Ken Griffey Sr, was a solid player for the Reds, and Yankees among others for more than 15 years. Junior was at the ballpark hanging with guys like Pete Rose, Dave Concepcion, Joe Morgan, Tony Perez, Johnny Bench. He learned to play the game, and play it well. He was never included in the shadow of the steroid scandals that troubled the sport for more than a decade. Griffey played his heart out for the Mariners. Without Griffey, Buhner, Martinez, Johnson and the rest of the comers and goers in the mid to