{"id":204815,"date":"2025-10-11T09:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T09:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/204815\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T09:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T09:07:07","slug":"mariners-advance-to-alcs-after-16-inning-marathon-over-tigers-in-deciding-game-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/204815\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners advance to ALCS after 16-inning marathon over Tigers in deciding Game 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Jorge Polanco<\/a> hit a game-ending single in the 15th inning, and the Seattle Mariners<\/a> advanced to the AL Championship Series by outlasting the Detroit Tigers<\/a> for a 3-2 victory Friday night in the longest winner-take-all postseason game in baseball history.<\/p>\n

With one out and the bases loaded, Polanco drove in J.P. Crawford<\/a> with a liner to right off Tommy Kahnle<\/a>. Crawford hit a leadoff single, Randy Arozarena<\/a> was hit by a pitch and Julio Rodr\u00edguez was intentionally walked before Polanco\u2019s big swing on the 472nd pitch of an epic Game 5 in a tightly contested Division Series.<\/p>\n

The Mariners left 12 runners on base and still managed to advance to the ALCS for the first time since 2001. Next up is a matchup with the AL East champion Blue Jays, beginning on Sunday night at Toronto.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe never give up. We just keep fighting. It doesn\u2019t matter how many innings we play,\u201d Polanco said. \u201cWe just stay ready and wait for the moment. It\u2019s going to come. It was my time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Luis Castillo<\/a> pitched 1 1\/3 innings for the win in his first major league relief appearance. Logan Gilbert<\/a>, another member of Seattle\u2019s rotation, worked two scoreless innings in his first relief outing since his college days at Stetson University in 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was such a tough night,\u201d Seattle catcher Cal Raleigh<\/a> said. \u201dEveryone put their other stuff side and did everything for the team, including Logan and Luis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Detroit wasted a stellar performance by Tarik Skubal<\/a>, who struck out 13 while pitching six innings of one-run ball. The Tigers went 1 for 9 with runners in scoring position and left 10 on base.<\/p>\n

Luke Olson, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE (AP) \u2014 Jorge Polanco hit a game-ending single in the 15th inning, and the Seattle Mariners advanced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,100384,100383,82],"class_list":["post-204815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-detroit-tigers-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-230","tag-seattle-mariners-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-236","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}