Overview
- Jorge Polanco lined a bases-loaded single in the 15th to score J.P. Crawford and seal a 3-2 win over the Tigers in Seattle.
- The game lasted 15 innings and nearly five hours, setting the MLB record for the longest winner-take-all postseason contest.
- Detroit ace Tarik Skubal struck out 13 over six innings with a streak of seven consecutive Ks and no walks before the bullpen surrendered the lead.
- Kerry Carpenter’s two-run homer put Detroit ahead and he reached base five times with a homer, the first such winner-take-all feat since Babe Ruth in 1926.
- Seattle used starters George Kirby, Logan Gilbert and Luis Castillo in the marathon, raising early-ALCS availability questions before Sunday’s Game 1 in Toronto, where the Blue Jays await after dispatching the Yankees in four games.