High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Double was a double hit by the Seattle Mariners` Edgar Martinez in Game 5 of Major League Baseball`s 1995 American League Division Series on October 8, 1995. Trailing by one run in the bottom half of the 11th inning, with Joey Cora on third base and Ken Griffey, Jr. on first, Martinez`s hit drove in Cora and Griffey, giving the Mariners a 6–5 victory over the New York Yankees to clinch the series, 3–2. The play is held to be the "biggest hit in franchise history."