Overview
- The 3-2 clincher lasted 15 innings, the longest winner-take-all game in MLB postseason history.
- Jorge Polanco ended it with a bases-loaded single, sending Seattle to its first ALCS since 2001.
- Tigers ace Tarik Skubal struck out 13 in six innings — the most ever in a winner-take-all — before being lifted at 99 pitches.
- Manager A.J. Hinch called the decision to pull Skubal an "easy decision," and Seattle tied it in the seventh on Leo Rivas’s pinch-hit RBI.
- Seattle used seven pitchers, including starters Logan Gilbert and Luis Castillo in relief, and now heads to Toronto for Game 1 on Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on FOX, with Bryce Miller viewed as a possible starter as the Blue Jays arrive rested.