{"id":204990,"date":"2025-10-11T11:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T11:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/204990\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T11:06:09","slug":"polanco-hits-winning-single-in-the-15th-inning-as-the-mariners-beat-the-tigers-to-advance-to-alcs-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/204990\/","title":{"rendered":"Polanco hits winning single in the 15th inning as the Mariners beat the Tigers to advance to ALCS | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Castillo pitched 1 1\/3 innings for the win in his first major league relief appearance. Logan Gilbert, 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<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758347900_436_indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was such a tough night,\u201d Seattle catcher Cal Raleigh said. \u201cEveryone put their other stuff side and did everything for the team, including Logan and Luis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Detroit wasted a stellar performance by <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tigers-skubal-3a8737bdc0d3d439b9e5e035ac4769c4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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<p>\u201cWe had an incredible game today that \u2014 unfortunately, somebody had to lose, and that somebody was us, and it hurts,\u201d manager A.J. Hinch said.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry Carpenter put Detroit in front when he hit a two-run homer off Gabe Speier in the sixth inning. Carpenter had four hits and walked twice, becoming the first player to reach five times and hit a home run in a winner-take-all postseason game since Babe Ruth in 1926.<\/p>\n<p>The Mariners tied it at 2 on Leo Rivas\u2019 pinch-hit single off Tyler Holton in the seventh. Rivas celebrated his 28th birthday with his first postseason hit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was up to the task tonight,\u201d Seattle manager Dan Wilson said. \u201cIt was a huge hit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Seattle dropped four of its six games against Toronto this season. The Mariners won two of three in an April series in Toronto, but they were swept by the Blue Jays at home from May 9-11.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luke Olson, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luis Castillo pitched 1 1\/3 innings for the win in his first major league relief appearance. Logan Gilbert,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,462,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-204990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-mlb","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204990","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=204990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}