{"id":192654,"date":"2025-10-06T03:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T03:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/192654\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T03:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T03:31:08","slug":"jorge-polanco-joins-mariners-legends-in-exclusive-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/192654\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Polanco joins Mariners legends in exclusive club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Polanco came up clutch against one of MLB’s best pitchers on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

SEATTLE \u2014 Jorge Polanco did something<\/a> on Sunday night that only three other Mariners hitters have ever done in a playoff game.<\/p>\n

With his two home runs off Detroit Tigers star Tarik Skubal in Game 2 of the American League Division Series (ALDS), Polanco joined Ken Griffey Jr., Edgar Martinez and Jay Buhner as the only four players to hit multiple home runs in a postseason game.<\/p>\n

Polanco first turned on a slider from Skubal to break a scoreless tie in the bottom of the fourth inning, hitting it 392 feet into the bullpen in T-Mobile Park’s left-center field.<\/p>\n

In his next at-bat, Polanco again drove one over the fence off Skubal to extend the lead to 2-0 Mariners.<\/p>\n

After Game 1 saw the rest of the Mariners go hitless besides stars Cal Raleigh and Julio Rodriguez, the script was flipped with Polanco. Raleigh and Rodriguez were 0-6 with three strikeouts while Polanco was 2-for-3 with two home runs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Skubal, who won the AL Cy Young in 2024 as the top pitcher in the league, was in control early in the game. Polanco became the first player<\/a> in over four years with a multi-home run effort against Skubal, with Paul Goldschmidt being the last to do so back in August 2021.<\/p>\n

The rest of the Mariners have struggled to find success Sunday night, but Polanco has the team in position to potentially even the series against the Tigers.<\/p>\n

Game 3 of the ALDS is set for Tuesday afternoon at Detroit’s Comerica Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Polanco came up clutch against one of MLB’s best pitchers on Sunday night. SEATTLE \u2014 Jorge Polanco did…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-192654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}