FOR THE LEAD in Game 5 🫢 Kerry Carpenter CRUSHES go-ahead two-run homer for Tigers!!

FOR THE LEAD in Game 5 🫢 Kerry Carpenter CRUSHES go-ahead two-run homer for Tigers!!

This winner take all game five. Josh Naylor a double in the second. Stole third on school. And then Garber with a sack fly. That’s the only run. Jav Bayz first pitch swinging and a base hit towards left center field. Over to cut it off is Rodriguez. Bayz is looking for two. Play at second. He’s safe. An aggressive Jav Bayz goes right after Kirby and is in scoring position with the tying run. And we will see if Dan Wilson elects to take Kirby out and bring in the lefty spire to face Carrie Carpenter. Oh, he gone. He gone. But what a slide by Jav Bayz. Palano whiffs on him. He’s safe at second. Aggressive base running. I love it. First pitch. Knew what he was going to get. A little slider. Jav Bayz has been really good in this postseason. So Bayz has put Detroit in position to tie the game. And Dan Wilson is not going to let Kirby face Carpenter. Instead, it’s going to be the lefty spire. And George Kirby getting the talking to from his manager is going to get a great ovation here. Tying run in scoring position for Detroit. George Kirby started the 18 inning one- nothing loss to Houston in game three of the division series three years ago. Was outstanding then. still hasn’t allowed a run in an elimination game the last two times, but is responsible for Bayz at second. And this is why AJ Hinch put Carrie Carpenter at the top of the order for this moment to face Gcape Spire and still have an opportunity later. And Hinch loves to pinch it, but not here because now Spire is off the board. And later on in the game, these will be at bats against right-handed pitching. Carpenter first pitch up and in under the hands. And let’s not forget Riley Green, who’s due up third, hit a blast off Spire two days ago in game four that gave Detroit the lead. So Hinch is is comfortable with this. They just need to figure out a way to get by as a third and drive him in. Carpenter swings and sends one out towards right center field. Rodriguez all the way back at the track. This ball’s gone. Carrie Carpenter has done it again. He’s given Detroit the lead in Seattle. [Applause] He did it to Kirby in game one. He does it to Spire in game five. And the Tigers have the lead. Here’s Torres. Tapper up the third baseline. Suarez. Tough play. Nice play out number one in the sixth. Well, I said earlier in the game when George Kirby kept Carrie Carver in the park, that was a win. This is the worst thing that Dan Wilson and the Mariners. The last thing I think they thought would happen. It’s a little fast ball away. Carrie Carpenter, he hit that. So, look at Bayas giving him love. When that ball went up, I didn’t think it had enough. It just kept going and going and George Kirby can’t believe it. Kirby knows that feeling. And now Spire against Green just as it was in game four. This one though will go Spire’s way and a ground out. Two down here in the sixth inning. George Kirby pitched incredible. He he pitched absolutely incredible and he’s thinking gosh maybe he should have let me face G on that. No, you know and I it’s hard for me to say this. were about to maybe have a change, but I think that was the right decision to pull your starter at 66 pitches or whatever it was. I I he just couldn’t face Carpenter again, and you didn’t think he was Carpenter was going to have that swing off the great lefty and Spire. Kirby can’t believe it. I don’t think Spire can either. Back-to- back games that the outstanding lefty has seen a left-handed hitter for the Tigers launch one for the lead. Carpenter in game five has the Tigers in front in the six. Carrie Carpenter swing path, the launch angle perfect for this pitch. Fast ball up and away kind of thigh high away. 36° launch angle. 411 ft. That is one of the highest home runs that you can imagine right there. He gets such incredible carry. Spencer Tolson will face Matt Brash and take a strike. If that ball’s down though, Adam, he can’t drive it. He drives that down and away. It’s a ground ball. It’s something to the left side, but he doesn’t drive it like that. But it’s because it’s up thigh high out over the plate like that. I know it’s away from him, but he’s so strong up out over the plate. You have to get it down to him. Torqulson waves and misses a slider. Nothing in two. Carrie Carpenter with a huge shot. Everybody out there going, “Why did they take Kurio? Why did they take Kurio? He’s seven for 13, including two hits tonight with five homers. That was the match up Dan Wilson wanted. That was the match up Hinch was worried about. Rash finishes off Torlson. But Carrie Carpenter, who stepped up against Emanuel Class in the division series last year, who stepped up against Kirby in game one of this series, has come back with another one in game five. Kirby could not believe it as Carpenter strikes again.

Kerry Carpenter hits a go-ahead two-run home run against the Seattle Mariners for the Detroit Tigers in Game 5 of the ALDS on October 10, 2025.

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