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Mariners Overpower MLB-Leading Tigers in Three-Game Sweep Before All-Star Break

Detroit’s league-best 59-38 record masks a season-high four-game slide into the break.

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Overview

  • Seattle totaled 35 runs over the three-game series, its most prolific output in a series since 2002.
  • Jorge Polanco’s ninth-inning solo homer and Cole Young’s follow-up put the finale out of reach in an 8-4 victory on Sunday.
  • Starting pitcher Logan Gilbert struck out nine and allowed just two unearned runs over 5⅓ innings in the finale.
  • Julio Rodríguez, Randy Arozarena and Mitch Garver each hit solo homers alongside Polanco and Young in the finale.
  • Detroit will send a franchise-record six All-Stars to the All-Star Game, despite entering the break on a four-game skid.