When? Not in the playoffs. Not in this series. Not when it mattered down the stretch. This was a wild guess —and a bad one — by Schneider. “I trust every single guy on this roster,” said Schneider. “It didn’t work out (tonight). “Decisions are hard. The process is hard. It’s part of baseball … Second-guessing is part of it. Who do you want in the ninth? Who do they have coming up? Unfortunately, it didn’t work out.” It didn’t matter who the Mariners had coming up in the ninth. They never batted in the ninth. What mattered was getting through the eighth. The inning began with Raleigh, the MVP candidate, leading off. Then Polanco, the Jays killer. Then the Mississauga kid after that. The grand slam was hit by Suarez, and that was no accident. He hit 49 home runs over the season. H

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