[6][7] By the end of the month, the Angels (67–50 (.573)) were on a six-game losing streak and their lead was trimmed to 7+1⁄2 games over both Texas and Seattle.

[14][15] The Mariners won the first two games at Texas to clinch at least a tie with two remaining,[16] but lost the last two while the Angels swept the Oakland Athletics to finish on a five-game winning streak.

[3][17] At the time, the Angels' lead relinquishment was the third-largest in major league history, behind the 1978 Boston Red Sox and 1951 Brooklyn Dodgers.

The Mariners hosted and won the opener of the AL Championship Series, but lost to the Cleveland Indians 4 games to 2.

As a consequence of the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike, the 1995 season started on April 25, and was shortened to 144 games instead of the normal 162.

California took an early lead in the AL West standings and traded first place with the Texas Rangers through May and June.

[31] Luis Sojo followed with a double to right field that glanced off of first baseman J. T. Snow's glove and rolled under the Angels' bullpen bench, scoring Blowers, Martinez, and Cora.

[31] Now trailing by five runs, the Angels threatened again in the eighth inning with runners on second and third, but Hudler grounded out to end the threat.

[18] The game was a stepping stone in what is widely regarded in Seattle as the most memorable season in Mariners franchise history.

[37] Off the field, the Mariners' AL West championship as well as its memorable run in the postseason served as a catalyst for public funding for a new ballpark.

Less than two weeks before the tiebreaker, the residents of King County, Washington (whose county seat is Seattle) voted against a sales tax increase to fund a new stadium,[38] but shortly after their ALDS victory, the Washington State Legislature reconvened and approved a separate funding package for a new stadium.