Mariners 3-2 Tigers game summary (Oct. 10, 2025)

SEATTLE (AP) — Jorge Polanco singled that sentenced the game in the 15th inningand the Seattle Mariners advanced to the American League Championship Series after get over to the Detroit Tigers 3-2 on Friday night, in the all or nothing elimination game of postseason longer in the baseball history.

With one out and the bases loaded, Polanco drove in JP Crawford with a line drive to right field off Tommy Kahnle. Crawford singled to lead off the inning, Randy Arozarena was hit by a pitch and Julio Rodríguez was intentionally walked, before Polanco’s big swing on pitch 472 of an epic Game 5 of a hard-fought division series.

The Mariners left 12 runners on base and still managed to advance to the American League Championship Series for the first time since 2001. The next game will be against the Toronto Blue Jays, champions of the American League East Division, beginning Sunday night in Toronto.

“We never gave up. We keep fighting. No matter how many innings we play,” Polanco said. “We just stay ready and wait for the moment. It will come. It was my moment.”

Luis Castillo pitched 1 1/3 innings for the win in his first relief appearance in the Major Leagues. Logan Gilbert, another member of Seattle’s rotation, pitched two scoreless innings in his first relief outing since his college days at Stetson University in 2017.

“It was a very difficult night,” Seattle catcher Cal Raleigh said. “Everyone put everything else aside and did everything for the team, including Logan and Luis.”

Detroit wasted a stellar performance by Tarik Skubal, 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.

“We had an incredible game today that, unfortunately, someone had to lose, and that someone was us, and it hurts,” manager AJ Hinch said.

Kerry Carpenter put Detroit ahead by hitting a two-run homer off Gabe Speier in the sixth inning. Carpenter had four hits and walked two, becoming the first player to reach five bases and hit a home run in a decisive postseason game since Babe Ruth in 1926.

The Mariners tied it at 2 on Leo Rivas’s pinch-hit single off Tyler Holton in the seventh. Rivas celebrated his 28th birthday with his first postseason hit, in his first career at-bat.

“He was up to the task tonight,” Seattle manager Dan Wilson said. “It was a tremendous hit.”

For the Tigers, Venezuelan Gleyber Torres is 6-0. Puerto Rican Javier Báez went 1 for 6 with one run scored.

For the Mariners, the Cuban-Mexican Arozarena 0-5. The Dominicans Rodríguez 5-0, Polanco 6-1 with one run scored and one RBI, Víctor Robles 4-1. Venezuelans Eugenio Suárez 6-0, Rivas 3-1 with an RBI.