{"id":192715,"date":"2025-10-06T04:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T04:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/192715\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T04:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T04:24:11","slug":"julio-rodriguez-sparks-mariners-in-game-2-win-over-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/192715\/","title":{"rendered":"Julio Rodriguez sparks Mariners in Game 2 win over Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEATTLE — Julio Rodriguez<\/a> hit a tiebreaking RBI double in the eighth inning and the Seattle Mariners<\/a> beat the Detroit Tigers<\/a> 3-2<\/a> in Game 2 of their AL Division Series on Sunday to even the series.<\/p>\n

With the game knotted at 2-2 and one out in the bottom of the eighth inning, AL MVP candidate Cal Raleigh<\/a> doubled with one out. Shortly after, Rodriguez doubled home Raleigh to put the Mariners in front for good.<\/p>\n

Closer Andres Munoz<\/a> retired the Tigers in order for the save one night after throwing two innings in a 3-2 loss in 11 innings. Jorge Polanco<\/a> homered twice for Seattle in the win.<\/p>\n

After going scoreless against Seattle starter Luis Castillo<\/a> and three Mariners relievers, the Tigers tied the game against Matt Brash<\/a> in the top of the eighth.<\/p>\n

Gleyber Torres<\/a> worked a leadoff walk, and Riley Greene<\/a> reached on a fielder’s choice that was misfielded by Seattle first baseman Josh Naylor<\/a> for an error. Spencer Torkelson<\/a> followed up with a double into the right-field corner to tie the score at 2-2.<\/p>\n

Seattle regained the lead in the bottom of the inning.<\/p>\n

Raleigh, who led the majors in home runs this season with 60, lined Kyle Finnegan<\/a>‘s pitch into the right-field corner and slid headfirst into second base. Rodriguez followed with a double of his own, sending the sellout crowd of 47,431 at T-Mobile Park into a frenzy.<\/p>\n

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Polanco got the Mariners on the board with a one-out solo homer over the wall in left center field in the bottom of the fourth inning. He added another one off reigning AL Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal<\/a> with two outs in the sixth.<\/p>\n

Polanco became the fourth Mariners player with a multi-homer game in the postseason, joining Ken Griffey Jr., Edgar Martinez and Jay Buhner, who all accomplished the feat in 1995.<\/p>\n

Skubal, who struck out 14 batters to set the AL record for most strikeouts in a postseason game by a left-handed starter while beating Cleveland in Game 1 of the Wild Card Series, fanned nine across seven innings on Sunday. He limited the Mariners to five hits and walked one.<\/p>\n

Castillo, meanwhile, maneuvered through 4 2\/3 scoreless innings. In the fifth, he surrendered his first hit of the game, a two-out single by Gleyber Torres that put runners on the corners. But left-hander Gabe Speier<\/a> was summoned to face Game 1 hero Kerry Carpenter<\/a> and struck him out to end the inning.<\/p>\n

Castillo now has a 1.49 career postseason ERA, having given up four earned runs and 18 hits in 24 1\/3 innings while striking out 22 and walking five.<\/p>\n

Seattle righty Logan Gilbert<\/a> starts for Seattle in Game 3 against Tigers righty Jack Flaherty<\/a>. Gilbert has one game of postseason experience, having lost Game 1 of the 2022 ALDS against the Astros in Houston. Flaherty is 5-3 with a 5.05 ERA in 11 postseason games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE — Julio Rodriguez hit a tiebreaking RBI double in the eighth inning and the Seattle Mariners beat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-192715","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\/192715","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=192715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}