Detroit Tigers vs Seattle Mariners | Full Game | MLB playoffs 2025 Quarter-finals | Game 1
experience tonight for game one of the 2025 American League Division Series on FS1 presented by Booking.com. And here they come at T-Mobile Park. [Applause] With all that, we welcome you inside the broadcast booth for what is sure to be an electric atmosphere tonight. Adam Amin with my tall World Series champion friends Adam Wayright, AJ Pzinski, Tom Verduchi is with us as well. I talked to a bunch of people around Seattle and they all felt three years ago when they made the postseason for the first time in 21 years, it was a relief. Hey, we finally made it back. That has gone away now. This is a legitimate contender in a wideopen American League field. Absolutely. The Seattle Mariners have it all. Starting pitching, bullpen, hitters, power, defense, they can do it all. The thing about the Mariners is they are led by one guy though. His name is Cal Raleigh and he has the best nickname in baseball, the big dumper. As a former catcher, I do have nothing but love for Cal Raleigh. He’s my American League MVP. He set single season records, home runs by a catcher, home runs by a switch hitter. Oh yeah, he also led the league in RBI’s. So, he hits him in big moments. This guy is one of the best players in baseball. And if you haven’t seen him because he’s in Seattle, watch this series cuz he does damage. He was the big reason why this team won its first division title in 24 years. Meanwhile, here are the Tigers. They look like they were going to run away with the American League Central in mid July. They collapse in September, but here they are. They grind through a wild card series against Cleveland. That means they get to hit the reset button today. They do. But they’re here in Seattle. This crowd is fired up. It’s going to be an hostile environment. It’s going to be tough. They know they got the best pitcher in all of baseball on the mound tomorrow. But they got to win today. Here’s the three keys, the three parts of the formula for them winning this game right here. Formula for success. Troy Melton’s got to give them some kind of length. He’s going to be quality today and he needs to be a total pitcher. Can’t just be too reliant on his fast ball. That team over there loves to hit the fast ball. He’s got to use his other pitches, too. Also, he’s got to keep the Mariners in the park. They love to hit home runs. He’s got to keep them on the ground if he can. And then lastly, hitting. They have to move the runners. They have to pass the baton. They have to hit with runners in scoring position. That is the key to success. That’s how they’re going to win this game. The Tigers in their second consecutive American League Division series. The Mariners making the playoffs for just the second time since 2002. 2300 miles separate the Emerald City from the Motor City. And three wins separates one of these teams from the ALCS. Game one is next. They have won their first American League West Championship in 24 years. After missing the playoffs each of the last two years by one measly game, the Mariners are back looking for their first division series win since October of 2001. A cool October night on a Saturday in Seattle. A look at tonight’s game parlay is available now on FanDuel. Let’s check in with the fourth member of our team, the venerable Tom Verduchi. Tom. Oh, thanks Adam. They call him Furious George. such as the competitive nature of George Kirby. He’s a guy who with the help of mental skills coach Adam Bernero, a former pitcher for the Tigers, has learned how to control those emotions. In spring training, Kirby would sit in a tub full of ice water to learn breathing techniques to help him in moments just like this. George Kirby is a fast ball pitcher who says he loves the postseason because it is an adrenaline rush. Look at this setting. It is made for the fast and furious. Pure adrenaline here in Seattle as Kirby takes the field. Mariners rotation wasn’t really intact together until about mid August. Just about every starter dealt with some kind of injury over the course of the season. Remember, this is one of the best rotations in all the baseball last year. But Kirby and his 23 starts, there’s one common theme. He is around the strike zone. He is. And he’s just like every other Mariners pitcher. They attack the zone. and he may be a fast ball pitcher, but we’re going to see a lot of curve balls, a lot of sliders today. He knows that that team over there in Detroit loves hitting fast balls. He’s got to get ahead with that breaking ball. He’s got to use his slider. He’s got to use his curve ball. He has great numbers on those two pitches. They have crazy horizontal movement. Just check it out, though. The four seam fast ball has a great opponent’s batting average. He’s also got a really minimal slug on that and his slider. We’re going to see a lot of that today. and he’s going to need it against a developing and improved young offense for the Detroit Tigers. They were below league average in scoring last year. They are above league average in scoring this year. Question is, which Detroit Tiger offense are you going to get? Labor Torres, who was in the leadoff spot for that game three victory against Cleveland. He is right back up there. The big addition is Colt Keith who was not part of the wildard roster as he was coming back from injury. And that intercostal strain kept him out. He is back in the lineup tonight. [Applause] Seattle defensively in the top half of most metrics. A Rose Arena in left, Robless in right. Rodriguez is an excellent center fielder. Suarez returns. He’s been the third baseman since the trade deadline. Crawford, a former goal glover, has played more games at short than any other Mariner ever. Palanco and Naylor, a trade deadline acquisition on the right side. And last year’s platinum glove winner, Cal Raleigh, likely to be one of the finalists for the Gold Glove in the American League this year. An agonizing two years in Seattle. They make it back to the postseason with a division title in 2025. An agonizing finish for Detroit, but they’re here in the division series. And away we go in game one. with ball one. Alex Tosi is calling balls and strikes tonight in his first career division series assignment. Former New York Yankee Glabber Torres takes ball two. I don’t care how much, as Tom said, you love the postseason and you’re into all this, there are still nerves for George Kirby. And I don’t want to call them nerves, butterflies, excitement, whatever they are. In the first two pitches, Weno, as you saw, little bit yanked. There’s a strike. Torres, an all-star in his first season with the Detroit Tigers after seven years with the New York Yankees. He’s got more playoff experience than any other Detroit Tiger on the roster. This is his 49th career game. He waves and misses on a fast ball. It’s two and two. You see the the power this guy has. He can run it up there, man. He’s going to touch 98, maybe even 99 miles an hour today. He’s got a little playoff adrenaline pump going. Listen to this crowd. 2-2. Torres down on strikes to start the night for Kirby. But now it’s up to Carrie Carpenter who has obliterated George Kirby’s pitches so far in his career. Kirby has a erra better than seven against the Tigers in his career in six starts. Part of that is Carrie Carpenters’s four home runs and eight at bats. And Carpenter takes ball one. And only hits he has are home runs. It’s crazy. And they’re off different pitches. Most of them are down the middle. Up down, but down the middle he sees George Kirby very well. No breaking balls though, AJ on that list. There’s a breaking ball strikes on the swing on the slider. I think we’re going to see him flood this Detroit Tigers team with breaking ball today. I think he’s going to throw an array of them. I think he’s going to be relentless with that pitch. Especially if you have a guy like this that has four home runs off of you. You have to show him a different look. That slider was the second best Kirby strikeout pitch this year behind the fast ball. Carpenter fouls it away and it’s one and two. runs up a fast ball for strike three. Weno, I know you said that the Tigers can hit fast balls, but if they’re going to swing at them up here above the above the belt, like that one to Torres and this one to Carpenter, it could be a long day for these Tigers cuz you cannot hit 99 above the belt. 99. You got to make him throw it a little bit down. There’s Riley Green waving and missing at a slider. Well, this guy loves the ball down, so it will be interesting to see if he drives the ball up on him. Green loops one towards right center field that will get down for a base hit on his first curve ball of the game. Riley Green was right there to knock it into right for a single of the two out variety. And the inning extends to Spencer Tolson for Detroit. Little breaking ball. for Riley Green might have broken his bat right off the end of the bat, but your first to bat in a playoff series. That is a nice way to get it going. Somebody the Tigers need. Yeah, cuz he really struggled down the stretch. There is Torqulson. He’ll take ball one upstairs. Tied a careerhigh this year with 31 home runs. Green at first base, he had a career-high 36. Carpenter, who struck out, had a career-high 26. So, some pop in the top half of this Detroit order. There’s a 1. And there for a strike. Oh, that’s tough right there. Alex Tosy, the home plate umpire. If you’re going to give them above the zone, then the Tigers, that’s going to tend lead the Tigers to have to swing up there and they do not want to swing at that pitch if if possible. home with a 1-1 Kirby upstairs to Torlson. Had a couple of hits in the wildard series. Did strike out five times, but had a couple of RBI’s as well in each of the victories for Detroit. They won game one, lost game two to Cleveland, and then had the explosion late to clinch it in game three on the road against their division rival. Breaking ball is swung on and missed and a chance to finish off the frame. [Applause] Two- two pitch. [Applause] It’ll get started for Seattle with Randy Rose Arena, Cal Raleigh, and Julio Rodriguez. but is part of a very impressive Seattle offense which finally took the turn this year after years of clamoring to try to help out the offense. This was a much improved offensive team from below average to 10th in scoring from last year to this year. They’re pretty home run dependent. Only the Yankees and Dodgers hit more home runs. About half of Seattle’s runs came from the home run ball. And it will be up to Troy Melton, who they have plans on him being a starting pitcher going forward. This will be just his fifth career major league start for the rookie. The 24y old deals and Oros Arena fouls it back. And you see what’s happened right now. Seattle knows that he loves to pump strikes. He’s got to be careful cuz the last game we saw him against Cleveland. He got he got fastball happy. He’s got to use his off speed. He’s got to use some secondary pitches against this great Mariners lineup. And he’s got them. He’s got he’s got a really good repertoire. Got a tough assignment as Randy Rosena had a careerhigh power season. And he takes a breaking ball to left. Backing on it is Green and he reaches up for out number one. So a key first down because that’s going to bring up the big dumper. And we’re going to take a look at Fox Foresight powered by Google Cloud for Cal Raleigh. AJ, he’s my MVP. I said it in the open and these numbers are out of this world. Not even counting the fact about his defense. But here you go. 31% to hit a home run. He had 60 and under 10 at bats per home run. And he takes the first pitch down the right field line towards the corner. It is a foul ball. Carrie Carpenter was giving chase hoping that that would land foul and that was the case according to Nate Tomlinson the right field umpire in his major league debut for the postseason. just foul. But that’s what Cal Raleigh has done all year. He hasn’t missed pitches that are in the strike zone and he can do damage on. That’s how you hit 60 home runs. Every there’s not a a number you can look at for Cal Raleigh and power that doesn’t amaze you. Where he hits him, when he hits him, left-handed, right-handed, guys on, nobody on. He has done it all. Melton home with an 01. waved on and missed. Raleigh a switch hitting catcher with a historic 60 home run season broke record set by Sal Perez for home runs by a catcher by Mickey Manel’s record for home runs by a switch hitter and the most home runs by a Seattle Mariner in a single season. the first time all-star. Only he and his manager Dan Wilson have made the All-Star team from the catcher position in Seattle Mariner history. You start passing Mickey Manel in things. Just ridiculous. That’s pretty cool. Melton home with a one-two pitch and Raleigh just got a piece to foul. [Applause] had a strong close to the season as well. Took a little bit of a tail spin after the all-star break at Raleigh. Still had the power numbers, but he hit almost 280 in September. One, two, hard hit ball into center field. The base hit. I think if you were looking at this lineup and Cal Rally especially, you go into this game, you know, you’ve got to pitch him like it’s 02 every pitch. Right here in the one, two count, he gets a fast ball, he throws it right down the middle. That’s not it’s exactly what Cal wants. Obviously, he’s lucky he only hit a single on it. But you got to pitch him super tough. Strike to ball, strike to ball, strike to ball, and ball to strike. Never anything in the middle. Rodriguez chops it to third. Grabbed by McKinstry. Throw to second. Torres digs it out. Reel in a first is not in time. Rodriguez, one of the fastest Seattle Mariners, is able to beat it out and keep the inning alive. I I’ll say this from what you just said, Weno, about Cal Raleigh. They’re glad it was only a single cuz those are the pitches that he hit out of the park about 60 times this year. Absolutely. This a really nice play by McKinstry. Gets the short hop and a great turn by Flavor Torres at second to make this close and Julio just beats it out. Saw the reach by Torqulson. Melton was hoping, but he’ll have to fight through Josh Naylor. One of the great trade deadline acquisitions in all of Major League Baseball this year. The former Cleveland Guardian was with the Arizona Diamondbacks to begin this season. Got traded a week before the deadline to Seattle and those were his numbers in 54 games. He closed out the year strong on a 12game hit streak. I look for him to have a great postseason. That demeanor he has AJ, he’s just as cool as underside of the pillow, isn’t he? Well, this guy brings a presence. Not only is his shoe game the best shoe game I’ve ever seen. He’s got tons of them. But his demeanor, his calmness, in his whole career, he’s done nothing but get huge hits. I couldn’t pull those shoes off. I’m a Jordan guy. I’m 11. Jordan 11s is what he’s wearing. But I couldn’t do all the rhinestones, I don’t think. He’s got 150 pairs of shoes. Cleat. Maybe you can lock. Maybe you guys can ask to borrow him and see if you like them. Let’s give it a shot. Two pitch is outside and it’s 3 and 0. He does. He has 150 pairs. So, he’s got some to spare for both of you guys is what you’re saying. He’s got a few. Maybe not 150 pairs of those, though. 28-year-old from Missaga, Ontario, Canada, will take all the way. And it is a four pitch walk to push Rodriguez into scoring position. That’ll bring up Palanco with an RBI chance. You see Bayz and Rodriguez hanging out at second. This is a big opportunity for Troy Melton. The 24 year old who came up as a high school catcher in Anaheim, California, just made his major league debut shy of 3 months ago. Melton is just the second ever Detroit Tiger rookie to start a game one of a playoff series. The other Justin Verlander in 2006 in the World Series. fourth round pick. He was at double A, not at AAA to start the year. He was at double A Erie to begin this season. Z1 to Palano is lifted in the air right center field. Well struck. Meadows and Carpenter are there. And it is Carpenter to haul it in and Melton leaves a pair of Mariners stranded. A scoreless first. Off to the second in game one. For six MLB playoffs challenge. Download the Fox Sports app right now and enter for free for a shot to win your share of $10,000 in cash prizes. See the Fox Sports app for details. Scoreless first inning between the Tigers and Mariners in game one of this American League Division series. And it will be the first game played for Colt Keith since September the 18th. DHing for the Tigers and he’ll take a strike. I think a fascinating matchup in this series, not only tonight, is the lefties for the Tigers have to do damage against all the right-handed starters for the Mariners. They’re all right-handed. They have a couple lefties in the bullpen. Hard hit into right field and Colt Keith right back in the book. He bangs a single to start off this second inning. NJ, for the most part, the Tigers have had a lot of success over the times they’ve seen George Kirby. And Weno, you were talking about how elevated that Erra. I know we mentioned Carpenter, but a lot of guys have had success against him. Yeah, his last five starts has been really, really tough. I’ll tell you this, though, his last start was his best start against them in a long time. He had he gave up a three-run homer opposite field to Riley. That kind of ruined those numbers. He flooded them with off speed stuff. Here’s Dylan Dingler, an excellent catcher who was a key piece in that victory over the team he grew up rooting for. The Ohio kid hit the go-ahad solo home run in game three before Detroit blew it open one inning later. Dingler has had an excellent year. There’s a one pitch to the Detroit catcher and he’s ahead in the count 2 and 0. his manager, the former major league catcher AJ Hinch sitting at 998 career victories between the regular season and postseason with Arizona, Houston, and Detroit pitch 3 and 0. I have to say AJ Hinch is built for the postseason. when you talk to him, all the games he’s done in the postseason, all the things he’s been through, he just has a different heartbeat and a different explanation. I swear he’s he’s he’s gone out and replayed and and forward thought about every scenario that possibly could come up for this Tigers team in this entire from game one, I feel like, to game five. And he’s got plans for each and everything. We did our meeting with him before the game. He was just sitting on top of the desk. Looked like he was in a in a lawn chair sitting on the beach. He was just as comfy as could be to be in this postseason. You could tell he was not nervous. He trusts his team. It’s a dangerous that’s a dangerous situation. When you have a leader like that at the top, it feeds into the players. Well, think about it. You got such an experienced playoff manager. And now here’s the postseason debut as a manager for Dan Wilson, who took over in August of last year after Scott Service was let go. Wilson has led them to a division title. Two on for Zack McKinstry, who had a key sacrifice in the wildard series. Drove in a run. The Tigers only had five sacrifices the entire regular season. They needed two key ones in game one, including Mckinstre’s to drive in a run in a tight game. You saw the corners in Suarez and Naylor playing in and the middle infield of Crawford and Palano still hoping for a double play ball. Raleigh’s going to go out to check with George Kirby. So, while we have a moment, a quick word from Adobe. [Applause] Tom Berduchi is down on the field. What did you notice from that first inning from George Kirby, Tom? Oh, that was a new level of furious George. He averages 96.7 in the first inning, but tonight 98.5. That is a career high. He hit 99 without rounding twice. Had not done that once all year. The question now, guys, is can he maintain that adrenaline? We’re starting to see the 97s now. Well, you guys have talked about we’ve done the playoffs for the last several years, and it just feels like that adrenaline dump is real. Here’s a one-0 pitch to Zack McKinstry and it’s in their first strike. And I’ll tell you this, it starts when you step your first step out onto that field to walk to the bullpen. Your adrenaline starts going crazy when you feel that. You have to really slow your heartbeat down. Do some breathing drills like he said he did in the cold tub earlier. He’s really got to focus on his breathing. McKinstry fouls it away and it’s one and two. It is so easy when you go out in that first inning to have your adrenaline dump all the way out. You have to really control that in these big moments. Two on, nobody out. And McKinstry a defensive swing as that one was coming in on his hands. He fights it off. One thing to take a take a look at here that the Mariners thought the McKenzie was going to bunt. I didn’t think he was going to bunt as he just gets beaten by this fast ball. Almost kills Joey Cora down there at third base. It’s a small target, too. So, Joey’s outside the third base box down the line, too. Watch out, Joey. One, two pitch. Two and two. But, but here’s the thing with George Kirby. He He’s unbelievable with nobody on base. When guys get on base and he’s out of the stretch, he struggles big time. Runners in scoring position, those are the numbers you usually don’t see. You see a little jump, usually don’t see over a 100point jump like George Kirby has. Another two two to McKinstry. It is waved down and missed to use the slider that time. I imagine that’s a good sign being able to go to the secondary pitches for a strike out here in the second inning. Yeah, it is. He threw a couple of very welllocated fast balls before that setting it up, jammed him inside a couple of times. Really sped his bat up and that got him off balance for that that good slider. He kind of made a mistake with it. It was right down the middle, but it was because he threw those great fast balls before it that he was able to get away with it. And now Jav Bayz has two on and one out. Bayz fouls it back. What a jump this year that Jav Bayz was able to make. He hit just 184 last season. This year that average jumped up to 257. He kind of reset himself, readjusted his stance, and it certainly paid dividends. He also went to his third All-Star game at a third different position this year. A key flex piece for Detroit. He chops one towards third, left side, picked up by Suarez, and the throw gets Bayz. Two runners in Keith and Dingler both advance 90 ft, but they’re now two away here in the second. These are the bats that are so important in playoff situations. Second and third, two outs. You get a hit right here if you’re Parker Meadows. Crowd’s excited. You’re the road team. It quiets the crowd, puts all the pressure on Seattle. These are the at bats when you look at series. Teams that get the hit, drive in the run here, they win. Teams that don’t usually don’t win. This is what we mentioned pregame. They’ve got to string these hits together. Three hits in a row, that’s how you’re going to beat these Mariners. One of the best pitching staffs in baseball. a little bit high to Parker Meadows who was the leadoff man for the first two games of the wild card series against Cleveland. He’s one of the faster Detroit Tigers on this roster. In fact, without Matt Verling active, he’s probably the fastest that Detroit has. He had a couple of hits in game three, including a bunt single, he scored twice in the nine spot. Takes a strike one and one. George’s kind of he’s kind of different with that singer. He uses it up in the zone. You see the great movement it has. It’s very late. It looks just like the force, but he uses it ball to strike up and into those lefties a lot. Used it a lot more in September as the season was winding down now. A breaking ball near the shoe tops and it’s two and one. See, I always wonder is that really a sinker? That’s just a two seamer that’s running back. It’s a runner. Yeah, it’s not really. They they classify it as a sinker, but to me it’s more of a side to side pitch. It’s not going up to down. Little bit of a run inside towards a lefty. right the other way. Starts in and runs back. Runs back to the outside. Okay, there’s a 2-1 foul back. Two and two. This is a big pitch early in this game. One, two on, two out. Second inning, two and two count. All the deuces are wild. This crowd’s about to go wild if he strikes out Meadows. Like he was sitting slow right there A Day A Day A Day A Day A Day A Day A Day A Day A Day A Day AJ. Agreed. Kirby to Meadows. Two-2 delivery on the way. Called strike three. Now it’s Kirby who leaves a pair stranded. Already three Tigers left on base by Furious George. [Music] [Applause] The Prodigal son returns. Auhaneo Suarez, a fan favorite who was part of that 2022 playoff run, is back in Seattle disagreeing with that first strike called from Alex Tossi behind the plate. That flips the atbat and it’s one and one on Suarez who had a phenomenal year between Arizona and Seattle. Did tail off towards the end of the season with Seattle, but finished top five in homers and top four in RBI’s in all of Major League Baseball. He’s ahead of the count two and one. There is the umpiring crew. Tossi his first division series assignment. Tomlinson his first ever playoff game. John Tempain his eighth playoff assignment. Back to Melton. He fields it cleanly and underhands it to retire Suarez. One down. Wait. I I got to know why do all pitchers when they field these they they run over there and flip them. Can we not just step and throw? Pitchers are supposed to be athletes. So, I know, but so many of these guys are so geared to throwing at 100 miles an hour like this fella. You’d rather them run over there and underhand it than try to go something slow. It it it’s hard to do that for guys who throw really hard for whatever reason. If you can have time to do it, that’s the better play. There’s Dominic Kzone. Cool moment right here between Kzone and the man who’s catching the pitches from Melted. Kanzone had an excellent year grinding through a couple of rough patches and behind the plate is his former Ohio State teammate. Little half-hearted chop swing for a foul. It’s nothing and two. This has got to be a very fun time for these two guys who are each co- captains at Ohio State together, separated by just a couple of years and right before the first at bat. How cool is this? Getting to hang out in the playoffs together. Are you kidding me? All right. Now, can zone goes down on a 97 mph fast that kept on looking at Melton after that first strikeout in the postseason for the right-hander. He looks different in the second inning. Well, something to consider about this. I want you to watch Look where the location is, but his his watch his arm swing. His arm, he’s got a very short arm. It’s real quick. The fastball gets on you. Oh, wow. Yeah, you can really see it. Just a look at his elbow. It’s like a snap almost going forward. He just brings it straight up. Watch it. There’s no big loop in there. It’s just it’s up and it’s out really, really quick. And he gets down the m well. Victor Robless takes a close pitch. One and one. Well, that’s because he was a former catcher. That’s right. That’s I think that’s exactly right. Catchers are taught short arm swings right to your ear and let it eat. That’s kind of how he throws. Reminds me of Jason Mott. Lucas Gilito has a real short one that he changed. Yeah, that’s that’s also a it’s it’s really helped a lot of guys be control their their stuff better, get a little VLOO, little deception. There’s no there’s no exact right way to throw a ball. I That’s what I love about Major League Baseball and pitchers. Everybody’s different. This short arm works for It works for Melton, though. The Newport Beach, California native brings home a 2-2 and it’s low on a slider. Robless did not bite and the count runs full on a man who’s playing his first postseason game since winning the 2019 World Series in game seven with the Washington Nationals. Robless fouls it back. Don’t you think Melton looks different in the second inning? Much more calm, much more under control. You mentioned the adrenaline. Well, he got through the first. A couple guys left on. That first zero is so important. It is payoff pitch and he gets a swing and a miss on a fast ball. Couple of them to get Kzone and Robas back to back. A one, two, three Melton frame. To the third we go. [Music] Whoa. your team, your players, your postseason. Follow all the postseason action on the MLB app, the number one app for live baseball. [Applause] Witches Brew being uh put together out in this crowd. One of the fun stories in Seattle this year. Labor Torres back at the top of this Detroit order. Second time through against George Kirby. He struck out on a high fast his first time. four for 10 in his career against Kirby. As we mentioned, just about everybody in the Seattle rotation dealt with some kind of injury at some point this year. A lot of thought that maybe Brian Woo, who felt like overall the best pitcher in the rotation for Seattle this year, could start game one, but he’s dealing with a pec injury. There’s a fast ball upstairs again, and it’s one and two. Woo was left off the ALDS roster. So Kirby gets the call here in game one and he’s already got five punch outs. And it was an interesting choice for George Kirby to start this game because of the numbers we showed against the Tigers. But the home road splits. Luis Castillo is going to start game two because of the home road splits down the right field line towards the corner that drops fair. Lever Torres looks for extra bases played out in the corner by Robas, but it’s a leadoff double for Torres. A two strike two bagger to start the third for Detroit. And again, it’s all fast balls up again. And that and that’s good to Glabber. You can get him up there. He has very low batting average, low slug, but when he does hit it up there, he hits for extra bases. He has he has power at the top. He’s got a lot of swing and miss, but he’s got power up there. Here’s the thing. We talked to AJ Hinch. What did he say? We can’t just get one hit. Has to be three hitters in a row. Carrie Carpenter right here, Glaver Torres double. Carrie Carpenter has to figure out a way to get him to third so Riley Green has a chance to drive him in. It can’t be one. It can’t be two. It has to be three guys in a row. What did he say? Touch the ball. Productive outs, move runners, string things together so they can put pressure on the Seattle Mariners. They just saw Cleveland, their division rival. Cleveland’s one of the best pitching staffs in baseball. It’s hard to string together hits. Trying to string together hits here against Seattle’s excellent staff. Waved on and missed by Carpenter. It’s one and one. AJ, to your point, the home road splits are pretty drastic for a handful of these Seattle starters. No more so than George Kirby. Almost two earned runs a game better at home than he was on the road. Now, there are some starts that might skew those numbers, but if you look at the full scale of about 23 24 starts, it’s a pretty drastic split. Well, this is a great place to pitch. Yep. Pitcher friendly. Traditionally, T-Mobile is definitely a pitcher friendly park. There’s a 1-1 fouled back in our direction. It’s an interesting decision they had to make because he is so much better at home, but at the same time, this has kind of been one of his, if not the biggest problem team for him to pitch against. That had to factor into their decision. And this has been the biggest problem hitter for Kirby. As we showed you earlier, he got him with a high fast ball in the first. One and two on Carpenter. Slider in the air to center. It is Rodriguez. Torres will bluff the move, but he’s sticking at second. There’s one down in the third. There’s that breaking ball, but an unproductive out. Yeah, Claver Torres leadoff double. Carrie Carpenter can’t move him to third. Now it takes a base hit to score him. His worst swings today have been on that breaking ball. Well, some of the problems we saw in the wild card series for Detroit was exactly what AJ and Wayeno were talking about so far tonight. Tigers are 0 for five with runners on base. Here’s Riley Green who singled with two outs in the first upstairs for ball one. I think the next step for George is to learn that bottom of the zone as well. He works the top so well. But if he could throw that good breaking ball and that sinker down every now and then just to change planes, it would make him take off, I think. Quickly 2 and 0 on Riley Green. Mentioned it a careerhigh 36 home runs this season. Drove in 111. Tigers best hitter who at one point was pinch hit for in the wild card series by AJ Hinch to get a better matchup. Fouls back a slider. Two and one. Also thought maybe that that would maybe light a fire under Carrie Carpenter as well. By the way, Carpenter took that in stride. He was very complimentary or Green was very complimentary, I should say, of Jamai Jones, the guy who pinch hit for him in that key game two. AJ Hinch went to talk to Green about it and Green said, “No, no, no. You make the right, you make the decision. I support your decision.” That’s the type of mentality that Riley Green has developed as one of the leaders for this Detroit Tiger team. He’s got Torres at second with one out and a two-1 pitch. Fouled back, two and two. He is susceptible to the strikeout. Second most strikeouts in Major League Baseball behind James Wood of Washington this year. Well, strikeouts don’t matter if you drive in 111. Yep. Putting in way more, right, than you want to knock knock in more than you through. Yeah, it’s a two- two pitch to Green in the air down the line. Foul, you see him exclusively working that fast up to him. This is one guy that he doesn’t want to throw the fast ball low to. Sinker down to Green. Not a good idea. That’s his best batting average down in the zone. It’s his best slug. He loves to go down and get the ball. He’s got that swing path that kind of takes low pitches, loops them high, can put it in the air. That’s how you end up with 36 homers. There’s the slider low though, and he missed that one. Kirby gets his sixth strike out already. And that’s how you do it, though. If you have guys that like the ball down, you make it look like it’s going to be down middle and you work it to the ball. Strike to ball right there. I love it down. I’m going to go get that. Oh no, now it’s right off my back foot. Can’t get to it. That is a great job pitching right there after those great high fast balls. Well sequenced by Kirby. He’s trying to work around the leadoff double. Here’s Torqulson with Torres still waiting at second. Now you’re starting to feel the slider a little bit more going to it earlier in the count. And Wayneo, what was the key? One of the keys you said to this series in this game, Detroit hit with runners on base. Right now they have not gotten any hits with guys on base. They’ve had traffic every inning. Have not gotten the hit to put them in the lead. Now over for six, one and one. And there’s that slider again. Doubles up on it to start off Torlson. Almost like when Sam Darnold’s on offense, they see Kirby going up to the Pitchcom goes, “All right, let’s quiet down now.” Seahawks play here tomorrow before game two of this series. fouled back and it’s one and two and a chance to leave Torres stranded in scoring position trying to muscle his way out of another early jam in the air. Well struck ball left center field. This is going to push Arosa and Rodriguez back. It is Julio for the third out. And after the leadoff double, Kirby leaves Torres sitting at second. And as the Mariners come to bat, it’ll be Cal Raleigh coming up third, the 60 home run star. Cal Raleigh will hit in this inning. It’ll be JP Crawford in the nine spot. the longest tenur Seattle Mariner facing the young right-hander Troy Melton. He gets a swing and a miss to begin the inning. Couple of strikeouts to finish off the second for Melton and he’s quickly ahead of Crawford. Nothing in two. Settled in nicely after some traffic in the first inning. Went one, two, three in the second with a couple of fast balls to get swings and misses from Kenzone and Robas. JP’s very susceptible to that fast ball at the top. Breaking ball to lower the eye level on the slider. One ball in two strikes. We’ll see where Dingler will set up this time. On the ground, punch to third. It’s Zack McKinstry and he retires. Crawford one down. T-Mobile, the best network in the game, is now the best network in America. [Applause] We’re at T-Mobile Park tonight. Opened back in 1999, south of downtown here in Seattle. Randy Rose Arena back at the top of the Mariner order. His postseason career has had some electric moments. The 2020 campaign was just ridiculous. Obviously expanded format, a lot of games. He had 10 of those 11 home runs in 2020 on route to the World Series where the Rays lost to the Dodgers. But Rose Arena opened up a lot of eyes during that postseason run. Last year was the first year in Rose Arena’s major league career that he missed the playoffs after he got dealt to Seattle. He’s been the leadoff man since the trade deadline. After Suarez and Naylor were both acquired, A Rose Arena went back to the top and pretty much stayed there for the rest of the year. Melton’s one, two, half swing and a miss. It’s a strike anyway. Three Ks for Troy Melton. Two up and two down. And here comes Cal Raleigh, the big dumper. We mentioned it earlier in this evening. beats Salvador Perez’s record for home runs by a primary catcher. Then he passes Mickey Manel for the most home runs by a switch hitter. And then he passes some guy named Ken Griffy Jr. for the most by a Mariner. Swings at the first pitch out to center. Meadows is there and Melton has really settled in nicely. He’s retired seven straight since the first inning. We’re through three. We’re scoreless. on the road. I dare say it looks like he’s having fun. What do you see and how long can you ride him? You know, he’s doing a great job of settling in. The first inning was really important. They put pressure on him. They came out. This environment’s big. Uh but he, you know, he’s in total control. So, as efficient as he was last inning, we’re going to keep going forward and who knows how long we can go with him because of the the way Etho strikes. What adjustment do your hitters have to make on the elevated velocity of George Kirby, especially with runners on base? Yeah, he came out pretty hot and he’s got really good stuff as we know and the September tells us that he was missing bats and you got to beat him to the spot now. It’s hard to cover all of his pitches at the same time. Hopefully the early amped up version of him settles in. He yanks one down for a guy to hit. Thanks so much, AJ. You got it. Great insight, Tom, from AJ Hinch there. Very comfortable. It seems like this young Troy Melton, 24 years of age, making his first career postseason start. Yeah, sure. Just go out there and throw three scoreless innings and retire Cal Raleigh the first two times you face him. It’s very impressive to see that so far. We didn’t know AJ Hinch was very comfortable running him out there, but we didn’t know what he was going to give him. We didn’t know one inning, one time through, three innings. AJ Hinch was like, “Ah, he’s going to go five with 55 pitches.” And was very confident in that. And the way he’s going right now, every out he steals, every inning he steals, just one less bullet for that bullpen. And AJ Hinch loves the pitching chaos. As we know, he’s great at matchups. And the deeper Melton goes, the easier it is for him to match up with some of these hitters in the Mariners lineup. Two and two on Colt Keith, who returned with a single to start off the second inning, his first game since midepptember after that intercostal strain. He goes and chases a change up as Kirby mixes it up for his seventh strike out. The first on that change. Yeah. What I love what he did this at bat. The first at bat, Colt got a a a fast ball to hit, hit it up the middle. This at bat, we saw a great breaking ball. He swung over the top of and now he comes back with that really good change up. Looks just like the fast ball and then works just off the plate. But Colt is a very good fast ball hitter and not a very good off speed hitter. There’s Dingler fouling it back. That sounds like the whole Tigers lineup. It is. It really is. But you know, Co Colt Keith is 321 on the fast ball and 124 on anything else. It’s a big difference. Those guys know that over there. Yep. Dingler walked his first time up, waits for a one strike pitch, checks his swing. Appeal down to first and no swing, says Jeremy Rehab. You want to be a big league umpire? Just got booed by 40 plus thousand people for saying Dingler didn’t swing. Just putting your arms out. Even though I didn’t think it was that close. A one-1 delivery. Dingler skies. One shallow center going out. Palano coming in is Rodriguez. Hard to miss him with that teal colored glove. Mariner colored glove. Two up and two out. A lot of George Kirby starts getting ready for this game. This is the best I’ve seen his command in any game I’ve watched him all year. He is locked in on his location. He’s got that great bite on the end of his breaking ball that has such great horizontal movement on it, but he is locating that heater tonight better than I’ve seen him. Here’s McKinstry. He’ll take a strike. Remember that, as we said, Kirby’s typically around the strike zone. This was a guy who set a major league record by starting a game with 24 consecutive strikes. That’s just one example of how often he is around the zone. Well, here’s the number for me. In his last 19 and two/3 innings, he has 37 punches. It’s almost two per inning. Yep. That’s electric. That’s what AJ Hinch was talking about, right? Late in the year, missing a lot of bats. McKinstry fouls it back and it’s one and two so far. Here’s where the strikeouts have been. You guys okay with this so far? Oh man. But look, those are sinkers at the top. Now AJ pointed out it’s not really a sinker when he throws it up there, but it is that good run in two seamer and he’s using it effectively up there. He’s got McKinstry set up and he gets him to swing and miss on a slider. Kirby’s retired nine of the last 10. We’re in Seattle for the American League Division Series. [Music] If you’re flipping over after the Dodgers take down the Philadelphia Phillies in game one, five to three. Adam Amin, Adam Wayright, AJ Pzinski, Tom Verduchi, the wonderful women and men of our Fox Sports crew hanging out in Seattle. Julio Rodriguez in the heart of the Mariner order. They lead things off here in the bottom of the fourth against the 24year-old Troy Melton who gets the call in game one for the Tigers who worked their way out of the wildard series taking on the American League West champion Mariners. And Melton so far has been excellent. He’s retired the last seven he’s faced after some traffic in the first. He’s been fantastic once he got out of that first inning. He has been dominant. Multiple pitches, multiple locations. Flips the corner that time. Throwing pitches like that at 97 and it’s up and it’s down. Like you said, changing speeds. He’s being that total pitcher that they needed him to be. That’s what AJ wanted. Rodriguez into center field, backing his Meadows at the wall. Julio Rodriguez strikes first for Seattle. It’s one- nothing. Heat. Heat. They have waited 24 years in Seattle to explode like that. Their first run. Wow. Let’s go at home since 2001. And now Josh Naylor launches one towards the moon. But this might stay in the park. My goodness. Carpenter is there to retire Naylor. One down. And look at the smile on Melted’s face, too. He’s like, “Oh, boy. I think everybody thought he got it.” That was a wild roller coaster ride. The parabolic fly out for Naylor. One down. And it’s one- nothing Seattle on that Rodriguez blast to center. Well, Julio Rodriguez is one of the best players in baseball the second half of the season. He was a questionable all-star pick because he didn’t have a great first half, but how many times have we seen Julio Rodriguez get hot as the weather warms up? And he’s been a great second half player and he got a mistake from Melton and made it one- nothing Mariners. Blanco will take outside. I I I look at that pitch, AJ. I I don’t know if it’s a mistake. That’s really his biggest like strikeout area, that very top of the strike zone, and he just beat him to the spot. I think sometimes you got to tip your hat to superstar players, but that pitch is at the very top of the Look at that. He had to pull his hands in. Look at that. He just it felt like he was going to get jammed and he just drove it out to center. I mean, that speaks to the strength, right, for Julio Rodriguez when his hands have to come in in a tough spot in the zone and still puts it out to center field for a home run. That was quite impressive. Hitters are good. Hitters are good also. We can talk about pitchers and we can talk about this and that, but sometimes hitters are good. Palano checks the swing. It’s a splitter for a strike anyway from Melton as he busts that pitch out. I’ll say though, he he gave up the home run. He almost gave up the next guy home run, but then you saw him smiling. He didn’t he wasn’t overwhelmed to the shifted shortstop in Bayz and he retires Palano for the second out of the inning. Back to the home run from Rodriguez on a two-2 fast. [Applause] Melton right there is thinking come on please stay in give Parker Meadows a chance just went too far that ball is at the top of the zone and then this crowd just erupted and then when Julio Rodriguez grabbed the Trident another eruption I mean wouldn’t you say that is just such a great to be able to keep your hands inside through the ball and use the big part of the field here in Seattle that’s not an easy thing to do to go center field here it is But he is one of the best players in the game for a reason. Suarez fouls it back. One and one. He delivers Seattle’s first home playoff run in nearly a quarter century. Remember the one home playoff game that Seattle got to play in 2022. Was an epic game. One to nothing Houston in game three in an 18 ining marathon. The starter for that game for Seattle by the way was George Kirby. He went seven scoreless in that contest. Now he gets to work with a lead because of Rodriguez his first career playoff home run. [Applause] 2-1 3 and one. What did AJ Hinch tell us? How the Tigers beat the Mariners. Can’t let them hit home runs and they are home run dependent as anybody in baseball. The key is you give up one solo one, you can survive. You can’t give up two. Suarez pops it up into foul territory. Home runs play in the postseason. We all know that. And if you can’t generate the home runs, you have to do what you guys have talked about with Detroit, right? To string hits together, which just seems a little harder to do when you’re facing the top of the line pitching that you’re going to see in the postseason. In the wildard round, the teams that out homerred their opponents were 5- one. And that’s been a trend going back several years. Suarez waves and misses. Melton settles back in to retire the rest of the side in order after Julio Rodriguez bringing those hands in and still flexing it out to center field. Bringing this crowd to life one- nothing to the fifth in game one from Seattle in the American League Division Series. Out to center field gets a huge ovation from the crowd just to the right of straightaway. acknowledges that crowd that has grown to love him since he got up to the big leagues and won American League Rookie of the Year three years ago. Melton with an excellent four innings all things considered, especially when you only give up one run against the top half of a very good Seattle lineup. I was very impressed with him today. Stuff was great. He was exactly what they needed him to be. He was using all of his pitches and he didn’t get overwhelmed in that big moment where they started to get some momentum on the Mariner side. He kept making pitches. That was huge. Javier Bayz flips one out to right. Robless is there and leaves to make the catch. One down here in the fifth. That’s 10 of 11 retired now by George Kirby who gets to work with a lead. Melton looks like he might be perhaps done. Well, but we don’t know for sure. No, but they have a they have a pocket. Kzone Gro Crawford. Yeah. Brand her the left-hander loosening up. two two two of three lefties. So, you would think AJ Hinch is saying, “Listen, great job, kid. Let’s try and score you some runs.” And we got a pocket of lefties coming up. We can match up pretty well here. Meadows, the nine hitter takes inside. Kirby’s at 69 pitches now. as he gets going further in this game. It would be interesting to see if those first couple innings where he was so amped up tax him a little bit. You see his VO dropping just a little bit, command dropping just a little bit. He’s got to refocus right here. Guy who once threw 153 pitches in a high school start. Comes home with his 71st tonight in his second career playoff start. A generous strike. The Meadows disagreed and Kirby will happily take it to make it two and one. [Applause] It’s never been harder to be an umpire. The box has changed everybody’s opinion on what’s good and what’s not. Well, we saw it in that Cubs Padres’s Wildard series. That kind of egregious call that hurt the Padres’s. Remember, next year the ABS system will be implemented. So, that pitch in that series would have been a hat tap. I would have been curious if Meadows would have been considering if the situation would have called for it in the ABS existed this season. Well, you think it’s hard now? Wait till the hat tap helmet tapping starts next year. It’s only going to get tougher to be an umpire. There’s going to be challenges all the time. Two two pitches high and it’s full on Meadows. And I bet you there’s going to be players that are off limits. You are not allowed to use the hot tap the hat tap because they get all emotional. You want the guys who have great ideas of the strike zone using those. I think you only get so many to work with too per game. Big pitch in this game right here. Meadows can get on for the top of the order. This is a big pitch. Fouls that one back to stay alive on a fast ball and he challenged him. I was wondering maybe if he might breaking ball, split, change up, something different. He went right after Meadows. Now he fouled it off. Will Kirby, who doesn’t walk, hardly anybody in his career, will he do that again and challenge Meadows again or go to the painted him up and in first first time through? That’s where Raleigh is set up and it’s fouled back. You see that ball now? He’s trying to throw that up and in. It’s kind of it’s doing the traveler. It’s kind of starting in and working out over the plate. That’s the dangerous pitch. Kirby twice led Major League Baseball in strikeout to walk ratio. His payoff pitch is a breaking ball loop to right that’s going to drop in front of Robas for a base hit. So the nine hitter indeed gets aboard for the top of the order and Torres as we send it to our top man Kevin Burkar for a game break. [Applause] So, the defending champions are in front on the road. Torres takes a strike. Milwaukee after Michael Bush got a home run for Chicago in the first, Milwaukee said, “Don’t worry about it. will take care of the offense. Alejandro Kirk, who is right up there with Raleigh and Dingler, the two catchers in our series as gold glove finalist potential. He had a strong offensive game with two homers. And then the Tay Oscar Hernandez postseason love affair continues. Nothing and two on Torres. A man on and a man out in the fifth. A one- nothing Seattle lead for Kirby and the Mariners. One and two. I was wondering when Glaver was going to lay off one of those. He’s got the best strike zone judgment on this team and he keeps chasing him up. Yes, he hit a double on it last time. If Kirby keeps throwing it up there, eventually he’ll get him to swing and miss and punch him out. 85 walks to lead the Tigers for Torres this year. Quality at bat at the top of the lineup. A one-two popped up foul. See, he needs to throw that about 6 in higher. Yep. He’ll miss it. That one is That one’s close enough where he can get to it. If you throw that 6 in higher, he he he’ll swing underneath. You say 6 in higher. Is that where he’s going now? I I I if I was George Kirby, I just keep throwing it up there until he takes another one. I think he’s got that breaking ball wide open now. Down and away. But see, I don’t think Glaver will swing at it. It’s got to be It’s got to start as a strike. If he starts it as a ball, Glaver will take it. Let’s find out on a one-two. And it is a breaking ball that he fouls away to the right. Great hitting right there. That’s a bad pitch for me. That’s a bad pitch. It’s a strike the whole time. Yeah, that’s strike to strike. This is a strike out of the hand, right? So, you know, Cal Raleigh wants it away. That’s right down the middle. That’s a mistake for me. Do you see he fought it off though? He’s still ready for that fast ball up, isn’t he? One, two pitch is a fast ball up and it’s fouled away. There it is. I love hearing you guys keep going with the sequencing. What are you thinking right now? I still think if he can execute that good slider, like AJ said, down and away strike to ball, that’s that’s the pitch to get him right here. If he could throw him a change up, which he would never do, I don’t think he would punch he’d spin him into the ground. Bugs Bunny. Very rarely has he thrown the change up this year would he throw it right on right here to Torres. One, two is a fast ball that saws him off. It’s bounced to first. Grabbed by Naylor, walked to the bag for the second out. On to second base in scoring position goes Parker Meadows. And that will bring up Carrie Carpenter with a man in scoring position. And two down. This is the old jam sandwich right there. Sounds delicious. Not if you’re a hitter. It doesn’t. Whoa. Yeah. Coming right into your kitchen there. slash living room if you’re watching at home. Bob Gibson used to say in big moments he loved making the bat shorter right there. He just made the bat really really short. Not a lot of room there. 37 miles an hour exit. That ball that ball if Josh Taylor doesn’t pick it up doesn’t even get to the infield dirt. Perfectly safe. While we got a moment, a quick word from Capital One. What’s been the highlight of your career? And that have to be uh bank guy. I’ve always been passionate about no fees or minimums on checking accounts. What’s in your wall? Tom Bduchi, Carrie Carpenter to the plate against Kirby here. Yeah, interesting mound visit with the base open. You guys mentioned the history between the two. Green on deck has been vulnerable to that high fast ball. Interesting choice here for Kirby. How aggressive to be with Carpenter. Not tonight. I don’t pitch around him, Tom. Kirby’s been too good and he’s been able to locate that ball up. slider down the right field line towards the corner and that will drop in foul. But he’s inches away from making us all look tough. I don’t I don’t even think you have to go inches at any point to make any of the three of us feel a little silly. I don’t know you put him on, but you definitely pitch him tough. This is O2 every pitch right here. Just like they have to pitch Cal Rally, this is how they go. O2 right here every pitch. Strike the ball. Strike the ball. Strike the ball. If you throw something in the strike zone, it’s got to be ball to strike. You’re in that pocket right now for this Detroit Tiger lineup. All the power is really centralized in the two, three, and four hitters, Carpenter, Green, and Torqulson. [Applause] A one is a close pitch that goes Kirby’s way. Nothing. And two. And that flips the feeling of this at bat. Little runner gets the crowd going and the the Tigers just need a hit with runners in scoring position. They’re seven for 41 in the postseason and 0 for six so far tonight. We’re only in the fifth inning. Chance after chance after chance for Detroit. Kirby trying to finish off the frame with an O2 pitch to Carpenter. Close pitch this time does not go Kirby’s way. And Carpenter still going, much to the chagrin of 40,000 partisans. That was a great, perfectly executed pitch. He gave him a little bit off the plate the previous pitch. Hey, if you’re giving it to me, I’ll go back there. See if you do it again. One, two delivery. Carpenter swings, launches it to right, and the Tigers will lead. That is gone. And Carpenter comes up clutch in the division series again. And he gets the best of Kirby again. Wow. [Applause] Come on, baby. Numbers against Kirby in his career. When he swings and makes contact, he does not get cheated. 2-1 Tigers. Didn’t get it in. Yep. First of all, Three heaters in a row trying to go to the same spot. Carrie Carpenter made the adjustment. That one didn’t get in. That one didn’t come back. Here’s Green. And you know, as a hitter, when somebody throws one in on you and then they try to come in and leave it over the plate, it just looks right down. It looks just so neat. Look at that. He knows it right away. in towards center field. Rodriguez coming. He has to speed up and it’s going to fall down. It’s a base hit for Riley Green. Rodriguez maybe trying to get a read on it. Was turning on the Jets to try to catch up to it as it drops down for a two-out single. Back to the two-run shot from Carpenter. Well, Tom Verduchi said, “Would you question pitching around them?” Maybe you should have, but that ball, that’s a great view. That is incredible view by our crew in the umpire camp. Carpenter knew it. Kirby knew it. Big hit for the Tigers. There’s Torlson taking a strike. Man, it was Carrie Carpenter in game two of the division series last year that helped flip a game when he homerred off of Emanuel Class in that series for his first career playoff shot. This one gives the Detroit Tigers the lead on the road here in game one in the fifth. Isn’t it amazing though? We just throw out all these numbers about how they’re struggling, men in scoring position, this that one swing flips the entire game. The pressure goes from on the Tigers to score to now it’s all on the Mariners and the fans know it. That’s why you hear booze. This crowd is completely different. This time Rehack says he went around. It’s one and two on Torlson. That’s that nasty breaking ball right there. I would have liked to have seen him. Now, hides 2020 obviously, but he didn’t give him a chance to chase one of those back foot sliders like he had thrown earlier, but he got the bad swing arm. I just got to go back to Carrie Carpenter. He has five hits off George Kirby. They’re all homers, man. That was a tank bomb, too. I I I I just don’t know what it feels like to only have homers off a guy, especially for five five hits, five homers. Not singles, not doubles, homers. Two- two pitch on the ground to short. Crawford will flip to Palanco. It was Rodriguez with a solo shot for Seattle. And then Carpenter with a blast off of Kirby. The onage continues. Kirby knows it. The Tigers lead. We’re halfway through in game one. Playoff home run. It was a tank off of Kirby. And that flips the game. Puts the Tigers in front as we hit the halfway point of game one. Brandt Herder pitched in the wildard series. Was charged with an earned run. He takes over here in the fifth and he deals to the lefty Dominic Canzone who had more opportunities to hit against lefties this season. That was part of a strong year. He ended up hitting lefties. Okay. As the season went on. Well, this is the pocket that AJ Hinch wanted her for right here. Two left two out of three lefties. Kenzone righty in the middle and then Crawford. He’s a sinker sweeper guy and lefties just do not hit his sweeper. 129 average. That’s the pitch. That’s why he’s in here. They just went up. Give me three outs. Give us a chance to try to score more. Breaking ball popped up on the Bermuda Triangle. It’ll be the center fielder Meadows there to make the catch. And Kzones retired. A herder who got his first career save in the second series of the season and it came here in Seattle. [Applause] Mariners and Tigers met six times, all of them in the first half. They met in the second series of the season and then in the final series before the All-Star break. Robless will take a strike. Four of six, won by Seattle, including sweeping Detroit at Com Park before the All-Star break. Tigers took two of three here in Seattle. Popped up by Robas. Dingler with the mask off underneath. Two down. A coverage of game two between the Yankees and Blue Jays will take place tomorrow at 3 Eastern on FS1. We’ll have game two of this series at 8:00 Eastern, 5:00 Pac Pacific time. Then on Monday, the National League takes center stage. Dodgers will have a one- nothing lead on the road against the Phillies while the Brewers will try to go up two and 0 against their former manager Craig Councel. JP Crawford takes strike one from Herder. And now, now that Herder’s in and obviously Melton is out of the game, it is this is where AJ Hinch thrives as a manager. Matchups, picking out lanes for guys to pitch in. Where who does he want to face? Who? and he brings in Herder with that pocket of lefties and Herder throws a one two three fifth. It’s 2-1 Tigers to the sixth. [Music] All things considered, still one of the better starts that George Kirby has ever had against the Tigers. Five innings, just the two-run Carrie Carpenter homer and the eight strikeouts. The Tigers have the lead to the sixth. It is Caleb Ferguson, the left-hander into the game for Seattle. And Jamai Jones will pinch hit for Colt Keith. Jamai Jones a very good year against left-handed pitching. And he faces the left-hander Ferguson here in the six. He had what, almost a thousand OPS against left-handed pitching this year. And Caleb Ferguson’s coming into he was thinking he was going to face some lefties, but he’s very good against righties cuz he throws a cutter that we just saw right there that has been very effective. And the crowd’s getting a little restless here on T-Mobile. They’ve waited a while. Jones will take a strike and it’s two and one. They want it so bad in this city right now for this great Mariner team. best team they’ve had in a quarter century since the 116 win Mariners of 2001. Jones sitting at two and two. He had seven pinch hits this year. It’s a spot he’s comfortable stepping into. He did it for Riley Green in the wild card series. 970 OPS and all seven of his homers against left-handed pitching. That’s why he’s on the roster. That’s why he’s on this team. Ferguson’s 2-2 is fouled away. And you just keep seeing George, he he can’t stop pacing in the dugout cuz he knows how close he was to having an excellent outing. He had great stuff. He was in total control all day until those last couple pitches. Two- two again. Count runs four. [Applause] Diggler is on deck. Seventh pitch coming to Jamai Jones. And that’s in the dirt. Jones with a leadoff pinch hit walk. Well, back to the big moment for Carrie Carpenter. Yeah, that was 110 off the bat. That foul ball right there. Got some generous strike call there at the top. Just that was the only one out where he could get extension out over the plate, wasn’t it, AJ? That’s the highest one, but that was the first one that really gave him a chance to get extended out there. And it was three fast balls in a row. Well, what do all those home runs have in common? They’re all right down the middle in and out. They’re they’re none of them are in. None of them are out. They’re all in the middle third. Now they’re down, up, middle. But the pitches that he was able to get Carrie Carpenter his first two at bats on were in and down and but mostly they were not in the middle. Cannot throw it if you’re George Kirby. Middle. And I’ll tell you, it’s the games where you have your best stuff and you let it slip away. Those are the ones that keep you up at night more than the ones that you just don’t have it. When you know you were so close, one pitch away. He was one pitch away. He’ll remember that for a while. Tom Verduchi, you can add on. Yeah, I know. AJ Hinch like a lot of managers won’t do it. Bats his two best left-handed hitters backto back. He forces that decision. You saw the left-hander up in the bullpen. I think that was only if Glaver Torres got on base. But with two outs and a base open, I guarantee you before this game they said don’t get beat on a high fast ball to Carrie Carpenter, the best high fast ball hitter on the team. I’d like the mound visit. I think it was just a mistake of execution. And you called it, Tom. Yep. We got to give you credit. You called it and made and questioned it right away. Looking back is always easy, but it was more about execution, like you said, than it was selection. Three and one here on Dingler. And that’s something that we’ve come to know about AJ Hinch. Very rarely does he like to have the same lineup from game to game to game. So mixing in those two left-handed hitters, that’s not something we saw in the wild card series. Well, he’s a master. He’s he in the air going out is the second baseman in Palanco and that’s going to fall between he and Robas. They still have a force at second and they will get it. Tough spot for Jamai Jones to be in but he couldn’t get the break fast enough to try to hustle into second. Heads up play out in right field by Robas who’s got a great arm and was able to get the force out in second base and there’s one down. There’s nothing you can do as the guy on first because if Palano catches this and you’re too far off, you’re going to be out at first and Ro barehands and throws a perfect strike to JP Crawford at second. That that’s that’s an impossible read. It’s an impossible play as the base runner. Two down for McKinstry and he will take a strike. Palano kind of overran the ball. Nice play by Roish to recover. One out beg your part. I think it’s two. One down. In at third now is Suarez. McKinstry fouls one down the line. It’s nothing in two. Literally, when I say there’s nothing you can do, he he was pretty far off. Sure, Jones was. And if Palano catches that, he he was close enough to where he could get back, but because Palano barely touched it and the hustle from Rolaze to be there and then the bare hand perfect throw, you’re just out. And it stinks. It takes a hit away from your buddy and it gives him an out. Those are what I think Wayneo those are the things as a as a former base runner because I wasn’t very fast really. So when you couldn’t get your guy an extra hit here and there those were the ones you just I’m sorry man like sorry buddy a lot of my bads. I’m sorry. It was more I’m sorry. McKinstry staying alive as he’s fought off a couple and now it’s one and two. I’m sorry. Bl you got to blame my mom and dad. It’s not my fault I’m slow. You know, tension still in the air here in Seattle. Here’s a one-two pitch from Ferguson to McKinstry. Off the end of the bat, flipped out towards Julio Rodriguez. And he’s got it for the second half. Want more postseason stats? Just ask Siri who has the most career postseason home runs. Manny Ramirez at the top of that list. 29 of them all time. Mariners eliminated Altuve with a late season sweep against Houston. That’s it for Ferguson. Deeper into the pen go the Mariners. base to play this great game. To learn more, including how to find a league near you, playball.org and follow Playball on X, Facebook, and Instagram. Here comes Edward Bazardo in the sixth inning with a runner at first and two down. will face Jav Bayz, one of the most heavily used relievers this year. In fact, the second most heavily used behind the lefty Gabe Spire for Seattle. Bayas fouls away the first pitch. Cazardo had a nice year for these Mariners out of the bullpen. It became a weapon for him. One thing, he’s got one little pitch, gives up some homers. Yep. And other than that, he’s really solid. outside one and one. That those first two pitches right there to Javi, that shows you the different hitter that he is this year. He took a rip on a on a very good slider the first first pitch and then he took the second one. He swings at that every time last year. Pops it up on a breaking ball. Something he’s hit much better this year as you mentioned, Wayneo, by a wide margin. But that slider from Bazardo gets him out. And now the Mariners look to do damage with the top of their order. A Rosa Aarena, Raleigh, and Rodriguez coming up. 15th career appearance in the playoffs. First away from Houston. He deals with Randy Rose Arena and a splitter, which is his favorite pitch to get a strike. You’re going to see a lot of those from him. He’s almost 50% split. Since he’s come to Detroit, he’s been really good with a lot of splits, four seamer slider. Opponents do not hit that split finger. And this is where AJ Hinch thrives. Pitching chaos, he calls it. They have the lead. They’re into the six. He can do his matchups. Here comes Monttero to match up with the righties. Then he’ll go to the lefty Holton probably for Naylor and Palano. Then he’ll have his righties Finnegan and vest if they if they continue to have the lead for eight and nine. So this is where this is exactly where AJ Hinch wanted this game. And here he goes the parade of relievers because they have the ultimate trump card tomorrow starting for them. Derek Scoo the front runner for the sang a Sai Young award once again. Right on Q AJ there is the lefty Tyler Holton. You’re starting to see the game take shape in AJ Hitchinch’s mind. Two two to Randy Rosarena is outside. It’s full. So he’s worked back in the count after being down nothing and two payoff. Ball four. Good played appearance by Rose Arena after he was down to the count. Nothing and two. And now the tying run is aboard for Cal Raleigh. [Applause] All one outside. That’s five straight out of the zone for Montero. And another splitter. Be real careful right here. Real real careful. I know Kyle Raleigh, it comes obvious, but be careful. Staying away. Randy to get on there is just that complicates things so much for them. Two- pitch right center field towards the gap. Meadows will not get there. Or Arena turns on the Jets and he’ll go first to third. The throw is late. Really nice base running by Randy Rosena. Two- split. Cal Raleigh gets dumps it into right field. Probably not even maybe not even a strike. Randy Rosarena on first. Reads this beautifully as soon as he sees this down. When you have a right-handed throwing outfielder going to his left, it makes it an easy read for somebody with any kind of speed because they’re not going to do the spin. They’re going to try and get that ball into second. He makes it to third. The Mariners are in business. And now it’s Rodriguez with a Rose Arena at third and Raleigh at first through the right side. This game is tied. Rodriguez his second run driven in. It’s a two- two game in the sixth. Oh, the tension release. You could feel it sitting in this building as Rodriguez with the top of this Mariners’s order. They generate a run against Monttero. We’re tied again in the sixth in game one. [Applause] Is sponsored by Liberty Mutual and Julio Rodriguez. after a little bit of a sluggish first half, controversial all-star pick. Did not go to the All-Star game. Said he wanted to rest up for the second half and he was very productive after. He’s got both Seattle RBI’s tonight. Tyler Holton is in. Josh Naylor at the plate. Lefty lefty match up. And it’s a ball to start. Yes, but Holton also can get righties out. That’s why he’s in here. Yes, he needs to get Naylor out. Julio Rodriguez driven in both Seattle runs with the home run and then the single. Holton’s out there to try to get a ground ball. Sinkers his best pitch. Can he get a ground ball? Get a double play. Get the Tigers out of this inning. There’s a strike. Holton was a starter at times as well. Kind of used him in the opener role a few times, but 64 relief appearances during the regular campaign for Tyler Holton. Monttero. Three batters, all three reach. A walk, two hits, and a run in. And he’s responsible for both men on base. Naylor chops it over Holden. It’s the shorts stop right there. Bayas tags. Bayas throws. Torlson lunges out to hold on. And it’s a 6-3 double play. Wow. Just what the doctor ordered. What a play by Jav Bayz. But what bad base running by Julio Rodriguez. I’m sorry. You cannot let him tag you. You got to fall down there. You just cannot let him tag you because if you just stop, he’s got to make a decision. and Bayz tags him and then a perfect throw to get Naylor. We’ve seen it out of Jav for years, too. His instincts in the infield are maybe the best in all of baseball. Allan Porter is the crew chief. Dan Wilson perhaps considering a challenge here. Well, they’re going to challenge whether he had the ball in his glove because it was in his bare hand. So, I don’t know how this works. Seattle is challenging the out call at second base and the out call at first base. Challenging both. Well, you might as well challenge them both. He’s definitely out at first cuz he never touched first. So, he’s definitely out. This will be the replay review. It’s presented by Zoom and a look into the replay review center. He’s out. I mean, I I don’t know how you how you can say he doesn’t touch him. He tags him with his glove and his hand. I think that’s what I’m Yeah, that’s what I’m thinking. And then Naylor’s out because he never touched first. So, I mean, as long as Torosen touched the base at some point, he’s out. Yeah, but he’s I mean, is he out of the line anyways? Then right there, he’s out. Well, he’s he can’t be out of the line. You can’t review that. So, he gets him there. To to me, the question is is the ball is in the in his bare hand, but it’s also in his glove. So, does that count as one thing? If it was like let’s say he touched him with his glove and it’s clearly out of his glove and his bare hand then he would be safe. But the ball is in his glove as far as I mean the way I would think I I think unless you see separation there that’s considered in the glove right that’s typically what the replay center and the guys that are taking a look at this are looking for if there’s separ separation where the ball is out of the glove then you can make a determination if if it’s just glove or just hand. You see a little bit of separation there, but the ball still seems to be in the glove. And usually umpires when they see that typically consider all of the mass, all of the matter that’s in the hands all collective. So if there’s contact with the runner, then it would be out. I was 100% convinced until I saw that last there is a little bit of separation there. But is it enough though? I think it’s still in the glove. After review, the call at second base is confirmed. The runner is out. The call at first base is also confirmed. The runner is out. One challenge remaining. One challenge left for Dan Wilson. Plus, when you get into the seventh inning, you get into crew chief review territory. Couple of warm-up tosses for Holton. But a huge play by El Mago. This was the one I was like, “Oh, his his hand kind of separates out of the glove there for a sec, but it’s still in I think it’s still in the vicinity of the vicinity of the inside of the glove.” Yeah. Well, you you said it earlier, the instincts of Jav Bayz, you saw him in Chicago for years. He’s he got the nickname El Mago, the magician, because of his instincts with his glove. You saw two great tags that he applied in the uh wild card series. He got Jos Ramirez at second base on a throw by Dingler when he was trying to steal. Raleigh still the go-ahead run at third for Palano. He’s batting right-handed here against the left-handed throwing Holton. There are the splits. Just a huge double play. 01 pitch. Palano will hold off and it’s one and one. That’s why they brought Holton into the game. to get the double play. Sinker’s his best pitch. He got exactly I don’t I don’t think that’s the way they would have drawn it up with a great play by Bayz, but he got two outs on one pitch and now if he can get Blanco, he can get out of this inning and keep it tied. Blanco under the hands, he takes a strike. He thought with some of the maneuvering with how far inside he believed that pitch was, it was going to be called a ball. Instead, Holton clips it and it’s one and two. Now he’s worked both sides of the plate exactly on the corner both times. See what he finishes him with. Oh, breaking ball. And that’s a Palano’s defensive swing to stay alive. That cutter was riding in on him. So, I really like that sequence right there. Cutter on the corner. Then you take him a little bit farther in. He swung off the plate in even more. You’ve got him in swing mode right there. If you’re Holton now, the outside part of the plate is wide open. One, two, and it’s two balls and two strikes. Laid off the change up. This has been one of Palano’s best seasons hitting from the right side against left-handed pitching. One of his best power seasons for the veteran big leaguer. Two- two pitch to right field. Carpenter back now on it. And he’s got it. And the inning is over. But Julio Rodriguez and the top of the Mariners order generate a run. He’s driven in both for Seattle and it’s a 2-2 game one. To the late innings we go in the Pacific Northwest. [Music] Late innings in game one tied up at two a piece and it’s Gabe Spire, the most heavily used Seattle reliever this year, facing the left-hander Parker Meadows. Meadows will take a strike in the nine spot. Then back to the top for Torres, a righty. And then the two big lefties, Carpenter and Green for Aspire, who had really good swing and miss stuff during the season. He did. It’s fast slider. And he has come in cuz he has dominated lefties this year, especially with that combination. And here’s the pocket of lefties. You mentioned the backto-back lefties last inning. Well, here you go. Meadows lefty, Glaver righty. And then you get Carpenter and Green. This is where Spire is meant to pitch. If you’re Dan Wilson in these Mariners 02 to Meadows from Spire. There’s the swing and miss on the slider. At home this year, 49 strikeouts to just two walks. And look at the numbers against lefties in particular. Major league average for strikeout percentage is like 2223. Against lefties, he’s at 38%. With the most appearances of anyone in in all of baseball, right? 76 of them. Back to the top. Here’s the righty Torres. Just hoing 98 in there too from the left side. AJ, everybody throws 98 it feels like now. Yeah, that’s been the story of the the postseason and the story of baseball, especially in these bullpens, man. And Seattle and San Diego feel like the two best in terms of stacking the back ends of these bullpens. This has been a very common occurrence for Seattle this year. 789 for the most part has lined up very nicely for Dan Wilson. Great look from Umpam at that called strike on a fast ball. One, two. Fouled away. Torres had the double in the third to lead off that Tigers frame, but the next three were retired and ordered. He struck out and grounded out as well tonight. Spires one, two. Got him with a slider. him. Just a perfect slider down and in. Glaver Torres does not like the call, but it’s a strike. Cal Raleigh, the platinum glove winner back there, frames it up nicely, so Alex Tossi can ring him up. Another lefty. And here is Carpenter who had the big blow for the Tigers. A two-run blast off of Kirby in the fifth, but he’s behind nothing and one. [Applause] One and one. Watch how Carrie’s squinting. He needs stronger contact or something. Staring down Spire for this 1-1 outside two and one. Spire’s healthy again and man has he looked it over the course of the season. [Applause] He’s had a couple of rocky years. Not a lot of smooth sailing until being healthy this year. Breaking ball past him and into the glove of the shortstop Crawford who throws out Carpenter. A one, two, three. Spire seventh in stretch time in Seattle. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Wear what the players are wearing on field during the postseason. Check out the largest selection of authentic jerseys, caps, hoodies, t-shirts, and more. mlbshop.com. Bottom of the seventh, tied at two. Game one. Hey, Yueno Suarez to the plate against Tommy Canley. Big cut on that first pitch. Change up. What do you know with a guy who throws almost nothing but change up? It’s so interesting to me. This guy comes in and throws almost exclusively change ups. And these hitters, they just it’s they have a hard time timing it up still. [Applause] right there. Another change up for a guy who at one point threw 61 straight last year. It’s down the middle and thigh high and it still works even though you know it’s coming. That’s how good a change up this is. Well, I’ll tell you why it works after we see this pitch as it from a hitter’s perspective why it still works. Here’s the thing. He still throws 95 miles an hour. Does he? I mean, he does, but like but do you have to worry about it? It as a hitter, all it takes is to get embarrassed one time and it gets you right off that change up. And in the back of every hitter’s mind, they say, “I just don’t want to be embarrassed getting the bat blown get blown away by a fast ball.” And Tommy Canley has a really good arm action and he has really good movement and he’s been doing this for a couple years and yeah, still successful. Doing it in the playoffs a lot. 29th career postseason appearance. The most for any Tigers pitcher. Three balls and two strikes on Aueno Suarez. And this is what we saw earlier with the Randy Rosena bat where they threw two two on the plate where he could offer at it. But then those last three right here again have been unofferable. Suarez towards left center field. Back it goes. Green and Meadows are there. Meadows, who’s got the best speed on this team and might be one of the best defenders for Detroit, runs it down. And there’s one down here in the seventh. The formula for success. Before the game, Troy Melton had to give him some length. He had to use all his pitches. He did that today. The Mariners had to keep him in the park. For the most part, they’ve done that. And they’ve had a little bit of timely hitting. They’ve done all those to some degree, so that’s why they’re in the game. Now, can zone flips a change up towards left. Riley Green is there waiting for the second out. Week five of the NFL season. In fact, we’re looking down over at Lumen Field where the Seahawks play, but we’ve got a great double header tomorrow. Cowboys are heading to New York to take on the Jets who have struggled out of the gate. are expecting to see Jaden Daniels though back for the commanders at quarterback. Great match up in the late window. Our buddy Kevin Burkart will be on the call with Tom Brady. Aaron Andrews and Tom Raldi. Many of you will also see Lions and Bengals. There’s the home of the twelves. Seahawks have gotten off to a nice start. We’re in Sodto south of downtown in Seattle. And you get the opportunity to go from one park to another. Tomorrow is going to be a very fun day here, baby. You’re going to you’re going to check it out for the first time. You’ll be in Lumen Field. I’m doing it. I’m doing it. They’re playing Tampa Bay tomorrow. Yep. Here’s Luke. He’s going to come in as a pinch hitter for Victor Robless with two outs against Canley and a strike on just the second ever postseason plate appearance for Luke. his first in four years since he faced Adam Wayright in the 2021 wildard game for the Dodgers and struck out and he’s behind nothing in two his fault. That guy was nasty. Whoever that guy was pitching in Los Angeles that night catching screaming line drives off the bat of Justin Turner. That was a fun night. Almost fun. Almost fun. 02 pitch and he got him with a fast ball. There’s the fast ball as Keanley comes back with it. And here come the Tigers now as we head to the eighth. Three, four and five do up. Green, Torqulson, and Jones [Music] cut, but he makes it work. He strikes out a lot, but he also hits homers and drives in runs. First pitch swinging though and he flies it out to the new right fielder. And it’s Rodriguez, the center fielder, stepping in to make the play. The ball always seems to find you when you check right into the game. That was the case for Rodriguez flagged it down for the first out. So Spire faces that lefty in green. And now AJ Hinch will send out Torlson and Dan Wilson will make the pitching change. [Applause] Matt Brash checks in with the bases empty and one out in the eighth. Dealing to the right-hander Spencer Tolson. 53 regular season appearances for the Canadian. Slider heavy. 61% sliders and he’s coming in to face these righties for the Tigers. And you’re going to get sliders. Got one right there and it’s fouled. Nothing at two. Wel Perez, a switch hitter, has picked up a bat with Jamai Jones, the right-hander due up. Slider, no swings as Rehack. One and two. Now see how aggressive he was right there. That pitch is at least a foot off the plate and he almost swung at it. The dangerous thing right now for a pitcher is to throw a slider on the plate. You have to take it back out there farther if you’re gunning it again. Two- two pitch and the count runs full. So now he’s taking now now you’ve got him leaning out over the plate though. His eyes are pointed out over that outer half of the plate. Now, does he do something in is the question? No, absolutely not. If he throws the slider, it’s got to be buried in the middle of the plate, I think. And he throws a fast ball outside. So, Torqulson after being down in the count, nothing and two is able to work back with a walk and the go-ahead run is aboard for AJ Hinch with one out in the eighth inning. He wasn’t You didn’t have him coming in right there, AJ. Listen, Torlson does damage on balls in. There was absolutely zero chance that he was going to try and throw a ball anywhere inside. I thought he’d throw a slider. He threw a heater and walked them. Now you get the pinch hitter Perez to try to negate the slider that Brash throws. So the pitching coach Pete Woodworth is out there to go over the scouting report. The bullpen for the Mariners did get some work in during the week. This is the first time that Brash is pitching since September the 25th in a game. But during the week, the scrimmages that the teams that had a buy to the division series typically held during the week, all the bullpen pitchers, all the relievers for Dan Wilson got a chance to get some work in this week. Indeed, it will be Perez who had the big two-run single in game three to help blow the game open for Detroit against Cleveland. and he climbs in and he takes the ball. If you saw his eyes right there when he got in the play, just did it again. He’s looking at that left side of the infield like he sees that big hole at short. Staying away is brash and the ball and a strike. Perez grounds a slider foul and it’s one and two. You aren’t hitting that pitch to short. No, you’re not. So if you’re looking at short, you don’t even swing at it. Fouled away. Tigers have one hit with a runner on base. It was the Carrie Carpenter two-run home run that at the time gave Detroit a two to one lead in the fifth. Mariners answered back with a second Julio Rodriguez RBI in the sixth. And Per Perez sends one down the right field line towards the corner over Israeli and it’s out of play. That’s the danger of throwing all these breaking balls to lefties. When you make a mistake, especially down and in, as you know, Wayeno. Yeah, they can get the barrel out, especially if it’s on the plate. Coming back into the swing. Super dangerous. He got away with one. Close pitch just above the top of the zone. And it’s two and two. It’s amazing brash those 60% sliders. He also has 99 in the tank. Just thinking the same. doesn’t use it very often because the slider has been so effective. Two strike offering and there’s the sinker at 97 for the strike out. Just straight gas. See, you call it a sinker, Adam. I still don’t think that’s a sinker. It’s more of just a twoc runner. because it it’s not going down. A sinker goes down. That is just a two seamer. Dingler takes ball one. That they want the horizontal movement at with the velocity. That’s why they throw it at the top of the zone cuz there used to be an old saying, high sinkers only sink over the fence. One pitch to Digler. High sinkers didn’t used to be 99 either. True. tailed the slider back in for a called strike. Torlson the one out walk. Now two down. Rash fires in a strike. Flip the corner and it’s one ball and two strikes in the eighth and a tie game. He struck him out. Crash comes on, punches out a pair. Two-2 to the bottom of the eighth. [Music] cloud. So, the Mariners in a tie game in the bottom of the eighth have a 28% chance to score this inning. The Mariners had the most one-run victories in Major League Baseball this year with 31. The Tigers had the best winning percentage in one-run games this year. They won 22 of 34. Kyle Finnegan deals to JP Crawford to start the eighth with a strike. Kyle Finn again traded over from the Nationals has been great. absolutely great with Detroit. Three and 0,5 RA fast split and the split is his pitch. JP Crawford out to center field. There goes Meadows at the wall and he’s there. And pitcher friendly T-Mobile Park helps out Kyle Finnean to retire JP Crawford. [Applause] That was close right there. He got that split and he located it. JP just went down and got it. Luckily for Finnegan, it was to the deepest part of the field. One away. Top of the order. Randy Rose Arena. You get that marine layer here in Seattle. Low elevation. We’re near sea level. The environment has a lot of effect on the ball because the air is dense so the balls don’t travel as far in that marine layer. Rosarin has got popped though and he was looking for some right there. Big swing on a splitter. One and one. We’re near sea level. Heck the sea is like 50 right there. Puget Sound is not very far. Yep. [Applause] Raleigh on deck as they chant Randy in Seattle. Foul away. One and two. Got a fast ball that time. [Applause] And Rosa Raina on that splitter stays alive. He had to go down to a knee. Still one ball in two strikes. You want to know why you miss fast balls down the middle? That split looks just like that fast ball. Same tunneling and everything. And then just one just drops off the table. Arena out towards right center field. Well struck ball, but Carpenters back again. Two down. That’s two. That scared That scared Adam and Adam Wayne right there. Heart skipped a little beat if you’re a Tiger fan. Both balls struck well, but both have been caught just on the warning track. even Carrie Carpenter. And now it’s Cal Raleigh. The game has built to this moment. Finnegan against Raleigh in a tie game in the eighth. And there’s a strike with the splitter. At no point in time are you giving Cal Raleigh anything on the plate to hit right here. Unless it’s an absolute mistake. He’s going to see all splits and he’s pretty much seen all off speed this entire game. So you see where Dingler set up. He’s set up off the plate away. And Raleigh is able to send it the other way into left center field. Handles the splitter to put the go-ahead run on base. The Mariners have five hits, all of them, between Raleigh and the man coming to the plate in Julio Rodriguez. You take that though if you’re the Tigers. Yeah. It’s going to take an extra base hit off Julio’s bat to score Cal Raleigh or maybe two hits. So you take that. Yes. Julio has two hits. Cal has three hits, but he’s on first. That’s right. So that that’s a W. Yes. You’d rather get him out, but if he’s going to get a hit, that’s a win. He made him swing off the plate. Rodriguez takes a strike on a splitter. I think that’s the second hit on a broken bat as well. I mean, they’re making him hit pitches that he’s not driving. Yeah. And he’s expanded his strike zone, which Cal Raleigh has been really good at not doing. Yes. He’s getting hits, but there’s no power up on the ground. Foul. Both RBI’s for Seattle belong to Rodriguez. He got the scoring going with a blast to center field in the fourth off of Troy Melton, tonight’s Detroit starter, and drove in the gamety run in the sixth of Raphael Montero. You want to see no doubles defense? Yeah. Riley Green is holding up the left field wall. He’s so close to it. Oh, tough take on a splitter, but it’s one and two. Yep. Right. Green. That is as deep as you can play. Yep. Parker Meadows will go back. This is the definition of no doubles defense because they do not want Cal Raleigh to score on a single hit. He’s at first. Two down. A one-two pitch from Finnegan to Rodriguez. Broken bat down the line. Foul. I mean, I don’t I don’t I don’t I’m looking around. I don’t know where that ball is that scores him from first. Unless it’s like like maybe to that deep little point there in center, but maybe down the right if he hits one down the right field corner. Yeah. And it gets stuck down there, but right I I don’t know if I’ve ever seen an outfield play as deep as they are right now. I thought for a second Rodriguez had a shard of that bat fly off. One, two again. Outside two and two. They just have to make Julio hit something on that outer third of the plate or off the plate. Can’t keep challenging him middle and having good results. High drama in the eighth of game one. And Rodriguez goes down on the splitter and Kyle Finnegan comes on and leaves Raleigh sitting at first base. [Music] Big time pitches from the Detroit bullpen. Holton, Keanley, and now Finnegan. To the ninth we go, tied. [Music] Andre Munoz. Fans in Seattle have come to know him for his 98 mph fast, hence the nickname Seenor Smoke. He’s got one of the elite sliders to go along with it. His fast ball is punched by Zack McKinstry down the left field line. Rosa Arena’s there and it’s one pitch to get the first down of the ninth for Andres Munoz. It’s amazing. His name is Senor Smoke cuz he throws a 100 and he throws 50% sliders. It’s just the way the game is now. It’s amazing these guys, the stuff they have, the arm they have, but he’s been as good as any closer in baseball. And the back end of this Mariners bullpen is trouble. But so far in this game, the Tigers have matched them pitchfor. This has been an exceptional game one to start this series. Here’s Bayz with one down. Ball one on that slider. You see the save leaders this year third behind Carlos Estis and Robert Suarez. There’s the slider and it’s one and one. You mentioned it last time. Bayz was up. Bueno Bayz has been much better hitting the breaking balls. He’s over 300 against breaking balls this year. Part of that swing adjustment being closer to the plate. He fouls this one down the third baseline. One and two. He got away with one there. And this was last year. Bayz against Munoz hit a go-ahead home run. That’s the dangerous thing right there. When when Jav’s got his eyes out over the plate, you hang that slider or just even throw it thigh high outside. Dangerous line drive to third. It’s cut by Suarez like right there. That’s danger zone. Look, Jav knows it too. He had two pitches to crush right there. 101 off the bat of Bayz. Suarez was there for it. Two down here in the ninth inning and the number nine hitter is Parker Meadows. He has singled and scored one of the two Detroit runs tonight. He takes a fast ball off the plate for ball one. Bottom of the ninth inning for Seattle. We’ll have Naylor, Palano, and Suarez. Middle of the order. Munoz steals and Meadows swings and misses. One and one. [Music] Muno’s pitching in the postseason for the first time since a scoreless eighth inning in that 18 ining marathon against Houston 3 years ago. Slider swung on and missed. It’s one and two. Spikes one. Two and two. back towards Munoz. He makes the catch and Meadows cannot believe it. Right back up the middle. Munoz holds on and Meadows just flips it away. The bat in disbelief. We are tied to the bottom of the ninth in game one. [Music] This one will have game two at 8 Eastern, 5 Pacific. On Monday, the National League has the stage. Dodgers, Phillies, Cubs, Brewers. Dodgers and Brewers have 10 series leads. Josh Naylor will lead things off for the Mariners in the bottom of the ninth inning against Will Vest. Vest who was drafted by Detroit but debuted in his major league career for Seattle now in his fourth year back with the Tigers. Naylor first pitch swinging flips it. Bayz the shorts stop is there. One pitch, one out in the bottom of the ninth inning. Our Fox Super Six comes your way. Sponsored by DraftKings. [Music] Will Vest has a couple of playoff saves. Game two of the Wildcard Series in Houston last year. Game one of the Wildcard Series at Cleveland this year. Pitched in both victories for Detroit. And a fast ball to Palanco is in there for a strike. Traditionally, this has been the side of the plate that Palano has been better. Breaking ball gets popped up. Bayz waiting a long time for out number two. How about that? Three pitches, two down. Palano’s done a lot of damage to the Tigers throughout his career with Minnesota and now here he gets through that and now you only get to face a guy who hit 49 home runs. Not 60, just 49. The prodigal son, AU Suarez, a fan favorite from their playoff run three years ago. Vest just misses with a fast ball. And don’t forget he came up with the Tigers a long long time a short stop. And I don’t think the Tigers ever thought they saw would see the power out of Gino Suarez, but he’s turned himself into a terrific player. Originally signed as a free agent in 2008 from Venezuela. Made his major league debut in 2014. Was with the Tigers for a cup of coffee before being traded to Cincinnati. Waves and misses at a fast ball. One and two. He’s got one thing on his mind, Wayne. No doubt. And that is ending this game with a walk-off homer. He’s top five in baseball this year. One, two, called. Strike three. He got him to send this thing to extra innings as uh we have seen some drama tonight. And what better way to start off this series with extra innings. Two, two, to the 10th we go. [Music] When we’re done here with this thrilling extra inning contest, the postgame show is presented by Strauss. We’ll have it right here on FS1 with our great crew. Sorry about the cans, boys. Top of the Detroit order. Remember, in the postseason when you go to extra innings, the Ghost Runner is eliminated. We go back to traditional baseball. And boy, they are getting used to this now in Seattle. Extra innings in the division series. Each of the last two playoff games here in Seattle have gone extras. Those are the extra inning records this year. Breaking ball and Torres hits it to left. Rozo Arena is there for out number one. Keep this in mind. Munoz just recorded his fourth out. That’s only the second time all year he’s recorded four. He’s never had to record five outs in a game this season. That’s something that Dan Wilson was very conscientious about in the back end of the bullpen because Munoz in the second half last year faded with all the extra outs he was trying to get from one of his top relievers. Well, throw that throw that out the window. Yeah. Now, in postseason play, highest leverage arms in a big leverage moment like this one with Carrie Carpenter at the plate. [Applause] You have to look at this game too. This is game one. They’re unloading the bullpen on both sides. Detroit has the best pitcher in the game going tomorrow. Not that this is a must-win for the M, but it’s really important. The school factor looms large over game two for both of these teams. 1-1 outside. at two and one. Well, not only is Munoz going to be being asked to throw multiple innings, Will Vest is there’s nobody up in the Tigers. So, he’s going to run back out there, too. Two and two. Tom Purducci, you can end. Yeah, you’re right, guys. The postseason, the asks just get bigger. Munoz has gotten six outs in his career once, and that was six years ago. Wow. Two-2 to Carpenter. Question for me, Leno, maybe you can answer this. Yes, it’s great if he gets through two innings here, but how does he bounce back? Yeah, if they need him tomorrow without having him done this, his pitch count is relatively low, but still it’s an up down. Two innings is two innings. He froze him with a slider. I would say if you can walk into the clubhouse tomorrow, you’re available to pitch. That’s what I would say. And this is this is a this is a strike. It just clips the bottom of the zone. Carrot doesn’t love it down there. He’s an upall hitter. We already saw that earlier. Strike one to Green. Vest has gone two innings multiple times this year for six outs. Just to back up AJ’s point there. One and one on Riley Green. Well, the Tigers are a little bit different though. They don’t they don’t really have a closer like Munoz. It’s kind of by committee. So AJ Hinch uses him whenever he needs him to get outs whenever possible. So it’s a little bit different than the way Dan Wilson has used Munoz only really for three outs the entire season. Much more solidified for Seattle’s back end of the bullpit. The two-1 to Green. Try the corner and miss. [Applause] High leverage count in favor of Green who fouls it off the end of the bat on that slider. That’s the pitch he was looking for. It feels like well that’s what you have to Here’s the thing. If you’re Riley Green right there, he you think he’s not going to give into you with Torlson on deck. So yeah, you’re looking for that slider. It wasn’t a very good one to swing at, but he’ll get he’s probably going to get a chance again. He did and he waved and missed. [Applause] Senor Smoke turned to the sliding breaking ball to finish off a 1,210. Mariners come up in extras is George Kirby got the start for Seattle. Troy Melton got the start for Detroit. Carrie Carpenter had a two-run home run in the fifth to answer Julio Rodriguez’s home run. Rodriguez has both RBI’s tonight. His latest in the six tied the game. 13 combined pitchers, including Andre Munoz with the longest outing of his season and the longest outing he’s had in quite some time as Tom Verduchi told you. Now, Will Vest, who’s been in this situation plenty of times, has the bottom of the Seattle order here, starting with the left-handed hitting Dominic Kenzone. Two lefties do up in this frame. three in fact came in as a pinch hitter earlier for Victor Robles. So all three are lefties slated in this frame against Vest feels like has gotten a majority of the late inning rolls for AJ Hinch. Bouncer to second and Torres throws out Kenzone. One down. It’s going to take one swing from somebody. Yep. It just doesn’t seem like they’re going to be able to string together two or three hits. Someone’s going to have to run into one to get somebody on the scoreboard much like Carrie Carpenter did and Julio Rodriguez did. Here’s strike one. 31-year-old from Highland High School in Madina, Ohio. Not far from where the catcher Dingler played his college high school ball. Nothing and two quickly on [Music] [Applause] Best toy and he fouls it back on a fast ball. Hit four home runs in 73 games this year. The last in Detroit and an eventual 15-7 Seattle victory. He hit that off of Casey Mai. 02 one and two. And not one person here in Seattle is left. They are all on their feet. We’re in the 10th inning. We’re three hours in and they are all here except maybe that little baby that might be asleep at this point. Toughing it out. Pops it up. McKinstreet and he’s got it for out number two. Two down for the longest tenur Mariner, JP Crawford, [Applause] 30 years old from Long Beach, who hit a home run off Justin Verlander in game one of the American League Division Series 3 years ago in Houston. He’s had two grand slams this year, but he’s also been a walk-off king. Seven walk-off plate appearances with the Mariners. Second most in franchise history behind Mitch Haniger. Wow. I would not have guessed Mitch Haniger had that. You would think Griffy, Edgar Martinez, someone like that. Think about all those late inning crazy games the last few years in this ballpark, right? 1-1 upstairs. T-Mobile is in the Mariners is like the giants in their part. It always seems like every time we would come here they would find a way to walk you off. Crawford fouls it back and it’s two balls and two strikes from Vest who’s trying to work a perfect two frames. I always thought as a hitter you you you tell your guys don’t try to be the hero because everyone goes up there and says I’m going to be the hero. I’m going to hit the home run. Try to get on base and and sing string singles together because everyone wants to be the hero. Everyone wants to get the walk-off homer. It’s just so hard when you’re trying to do that against these great arms. Two-2 delivery to Crawford is swung on and missed. And Vest is fired up. Ends each of his two innings of relief with a strikeout. To the 11th we go in game one. [Music] Sponsored by Wendy’s, TKO, Luis Castillo. Great matchup set up for tomorrow in game two. Scooble coming off that incredible performance in game one on the road tying a Tigers playoff record 14 strikeouts and Castillo who’s been so reliable in big games and has had the opportunity to pitch a lot of them he’s ready to go too. Spencer Tolson will lead things off for Detroit in the top half of the 11th inning. The new right-hander is Carlos Vargas who was on 70 times this season. originally acquired almost two years ago from Arizona in exchange for his now third baseman Aueno Suarez. Sinker slider from Vargas. He’s given up some homers, especially on that slider. And he is a reverse splits guy. Weno, meaning righties hit him better than lefties. But didn’t Scuba look nervous when we just showed him? He looked like he was so worried about a strike on Torqulson. That guy is such a unit, too. Just being up next to him, he is just like his legs look like oak trees. Just a big old thick dude, isn’t he? Yep. Scooble, who again pitched at Seattle U just down the road. He’ll pitch in a place that means a lot to him. Vargas with a 1-1 way outside. He yanked that fast. The chain busted. Oh man. Sorry, Carlos. Yeah, you see that chain the clasp on it. Thankfully, he has a backup. The 2-1 skyed left side and out of play. I was talking with Pete Woodworth, the Mariners pitching coach today. And he said they’re tomorrow’s starter though, we’ve talked about Scooble, but he said he is our rock. Takes the ball every day. builds up everybody around him every day. So, they’re super confident. Also, Tigers looking for their first hit since the fifth inning. Two- two pitch is going to run the count full. Riley Green had a single back in the fifth inning. Since then, no hits for Detroit. The bullpen for Seattle now sixth reliever in Vargas has not given up a hit yet. Still three and two. Well, since the Carpenter homer, I think they have one single, don’t they? That was the green. That was right after. And that’s it. That’s it. They haven’t gotten They had two walks, I think. Other than that, it has been a lot of weak contact and a lot of strikeouts for these Tigers. Tigers were susceptible to the strikeout a plenty this year. number four in strikeout percentage this year against a very good strikeout staff in Seattle. Payoff to Torqulson and a good at bat worked. He’s able to draw the leadoff walk that pumps up the Tigers dugout a little bit as the go-ahead run reaches to start the frame. The dreaded leadoff walk. That is the last thing. Look at there’s a little smirk on AJ Hinch’s face. He’s thinking now does he bunt here with Perez? [Applause] again. Didn’t do it a lot in the regular season, but did it a couple of times in the wild card. No time from Perez there. Perez came in as a pinch hitter in the eighth inning and struck out against Matt Brash. And if you can’t hit your way on, you got to make Vargas earn these strikes here. He may take a pitch. You may take a strike. I mean, it’s a good meeting right here, AJ. I agree. Kind of give me a sense of what’s going on inside between pitcher, catcher, and some of the infielders right now. Well, Kyle Riley’s going out there to say, “Hey, let’s calm down. I know your chain broke, but we’re still okay. Let’s just What can we throw for a strike right here? What do you think you can throw for a strike?” And you see the the tap on the chest from Cal. That’s Listen, Cal Raleigh does a lot of great things hitting homers, but the way he handles this pitching staff for these Mariners is is a number one. You get your star walking out to the field patting you on the on the chest saying, “Hey, we believe in you right here. That gives you a lot of mojo. There’s the bunt shown. It’s popped up. Foul and it’s one and one.” See, for me, he was bunt for a hit there, though. He wasn’t b That was a a bunt for a hit. And if you’re gonna bunt, you got to make Josh Naylor, the first baseman, field this ball. Suarez is in. He’s already playing. Yeah, you got you got to make the first baseman field this ball. Fouled off of the paraphernalia of Cal Raleigh. It’s one and two. [Applause] That is something I’ve never felt. AJ, what’s that feel? I I’m glad to do that. To never have felt that. What does that feel like? Oh, I thought you were saying you’re glad to let me throw a ball as hard as I can right at your face. I was like, I’m up for that tomorrow. Oh, not at all. One-two pitch is in the dirt that gets away from Raleigh and onto second base will go Torlson. The go-ahead run in the 11th is in scoring position for the Tigers. It’s a big deal because it takes away the double play and also just one hit now to score him. It’s a yanked change up there. There’s nothing Cal Raleigh can do. He tries. It is. It is just a yanked change of that. There’s no worse feeling as a as a catcher than when you expect the ball to go one way and it ends up on the other side of the plate. Not a pass ball. It was a wild pitch. Raleigh has not allowed one all season. Two-2. And that one’s backhanded to run the count full. In fact, Raleigh and Dingler, the two catchers we have in this series, are the only qualified catchers this year to not have a pass ball charged against them. No, the the meaning of a pass ball has changed over these last few years. Sure. But that’s one of the most incredible stats I’ve ever heard. He got him with the cutter. Perez goes down and there’s one away. Little cutter going in. Tough pitch there to Perez, but gosh, we talked about it early in this game. It seems like forever ago. Productive outs. There is the affforementioned Dingler. He’ll take a strike. Wanted to know where it was from Alex Tosy as a fellow catcher. He’s been fair. He’s been He’s been He’s had a wide zone for both sides tonight. Big cut laid on a fast ball. Nothing at two. [Applause] tension, the drama, the noise up and down and up and down. A sigh of collective relief and then a holding of a collective breath here in Seattle each pitch. One, two. Got him. That’s nasty. Throwing 90 100 mph sinkers backed up with 97 mph cutters. Watch the late action on this ball. Gets right to the bat and just darts out. Guys, the issues that plague the Tigers a little bit in the wild card series showing up here in game one. One for nine with runners in scoring position. One for 17 with men on base. Here’s McKinstre. And there is a base hit with a man aboard. Sneaks it through the middle. Torlson will score and right on Q. The Tigers take the lead. McKinstry delivers in the 11th. All that you just said, Adam, goes away with one swing of the bat. Dreaded lead off wall. Pitch comes around to score. And by the way, broken bat, 73 mph exit. Vo perfectly placed. Another late inning playoff RBI for the Tigers coming from Zack McKinstry on a ball that wasn’t particularly hard hit. And now here’s Bayz. Runner takes off from first. The throw down to second by Raleigh. And McKinstry lifts the bag. He had 19 of them during the regular campaign. Well, now once once you get ahead, you can just be overly aggressive, right? So, let’s Yeah, let’s try and get another one. Let’s try to add another one on here. So, this has been an incredible game. And after all of those chances, chances chances, the Tigers finally get that hit. Bayern takes a cut. One and one. Back to the go-ahead single. Just uses the big part of the field, too. AJ stays up the middle. A lot of good stuff happens up the middle. Obvious in swing mode right now. Obvious swing mode right here. He’s just trying, like you said earlier, he’s got one thing in mind right now, doesn’t he? Oh, he he’s Well, hopefully it if you’re a Tigers fan, you’re hoping it changes and he just tries to put the ball in play. Fouls that one away. One thing Jav Bayz has never been accused of, and that’s not having bad speed and swinging hard. He’s not getting cheated. Tigers flipping the momentum in extra innings. A one-two pitch to Bayz coming. popped up right side. Naylor’s over and running out of room and that’ll get out of play. It was Torqulson on that leadoff walk against Vargas here in the 11th. The wild pitch with Perez at the plate allowed Tolson to reach second base. Dingler struck out and then McKinstry went after the first one and got the RBI single back up the middle for Bayz. The second baseman Palanos behind the bag, but the Tigers take the lead on the road in the extra innings and McKinstry comes up and delivers. But it’s the top of the Mariners order coming up in the bottom of the 11th. [Music] Got it started. Carrie Carpenter flipped the game with a home run of his own. Munoz was clutch getting six outs. Will Vest was clutch getting six outs. And then McKinstry, as he did in game one against Cleveland, comes up with a key RBI late to put the Tigers in front on the road. And they will turn to Kar Montero, just 25 years of age from Venezuela, who made his major league debut in May of last season. This will just be his 13th career relief appearance between the regular season and playoffs. He has never had a major league save. And to get one tonight, he’s got to go through the top of the Mariners order in a Rosena, Raleigh, and Rodriguez. I don’t think if you would have told AJ Hench that this is where he’d be, he would have believed it. But they’re up with a chance to win this game. And Monttero on the mound. Strike one. Whatever superstition you have, regardless of what team you’re rooting for, you’re employing it right now. A Roza Arena takes a strike. Nothing can shoot. Ontario’s got to be careful here down in the zone to Randy. Randy loves to go down and drive something middle of the plate down. If you try to throw a breaking ball, you got to bury it. He did that time in a Rosena laid off. [Music] [Applause] Montto’s one two and a Rosarena just got a piece of that slider that was tantalizingly out over the plate. That’s a couple that he wants back tonight. But that one was that one said hit me all over it. Oh man. [Applause] One, two outside. See, here’s what you worry about with the young guy out there. He just threw a pitch that Ry’s going to say, “Oh, I should have hit that one.” But then he tries to make one too good. And now, now he’s letting Randy back into the count after being ahead of him. Got to try and put him away if you’re Monttero right here. or Rosarina bounces it to the left side. Cut off by the third baseman McKinstry. One down here in the 11th. Love the aggressiveness by McKinstry. Got the big hit. He’s feeling all happy and then he cuts out Bayz because he’s the only one that could have made this play. Now what do you do here, Weno, against Cal Raleigh? You have to pitch him like it’s 02. You have to What do you throw though? Montto doesn’t have a split and that’s kind of what they’ve been attacking with him with. You don’t want to be careful with sliders down and in. I know. You just can’t let him beat you though. I know. The problem is it’s not a great matchup. He flips the first pitch into foul territory. McKinstry’s got room and he’s got it. Like I said, you challenge him in the zone, AJ. Yeah, that was a breaking ball though. That was pretty much right down the kind of jammed them. That’s the last three pitches have been right down the middle and these Mariners have missed it. This a little slider. It doesn’t do It really doesn’t do much. And that’s the one Cal just did not miss. And now they’re going to have a meeting and talk about how to attack Julio. Same thing here. Like you just O2. Every pitch the This is the last hitter. How many ever hitters you face? Every pitch is 0 and2. Absolutely. Or just keep throwing it right down the middle. That seems to be working. So here’s Rodriguez. The Mariners have mustered five hits. All of them have come from Raleigh and Rodriguez. The two from Julio have driven in runs. He’s the last chance now for Seattle. And he takes strike one from Monttero at 97. Just throw it down the middle. Is that what you just said? [Applause] They’re never expecting the one down the middle. Never expect it. [Applause] 01 on the ground. That’s through and the tying run is aboard for the Mariners. A three hit Rodriguez game one. And he keeps the line moving for Naylor. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Tried to go in there again. He missed out over the play. Julio doesn’t I listen there used to be an old thing don’t get beat laid in well Dingler was set up and they were trying to go in on Julio and that’s his strength it is I I don’t it’s hard to it’s hard to understand that but Naylor breaking ball drops in at the top of the zone for a called strike Naylor disagreed with the call from Tosi something has to give here we mentioned how good both these teams have been with one run one-run games well the Tigers have a one run lead and the Mariners have been great. Foul back and it’s nothing and two. Down to their final strike in game one. [Music] Well, you get Josh Naylor over here for exactly these type of moments right here to lengthen your lineup, which he’s done incredibly well this year. This is why he’s here, Adam. He helped clinch Seattle’s playoff spot in late September. The tying run is Rodriguez at first. Montero trying to put it away. The O2 on the ground to first vacuumed up by Torlson and the Tigers come on the road to Seattle and take game one in an extra innings thriller. What a game. What a game. Just an incredible heart by the Tigers. To well pitched and two big hits. That was it. Really was it. Carrie Carpenter with the home run off Kirby and Zack McKinstry with the two out knock to drive in the third run. Incredibly well pitched by both sides. What a game. You see Cal Cal sitting there. They Cal and Randy both had pitches to hit that last inning. They didn’t make it make it happen. But this was an incredibly well- pitched game on both sides and it came down to a couple of moments here and there. The leadoff walks cost both teams today. That ended up chat that ended up being the difference. Seven Detroit relievers combined to finish off the last seven innings of this ball game. A three-2 Tigers victory in game one for Weno. AJ and Tom Aadam saying good night from Seattle. KB Derek A-Rod Dantrell and Big Poppy have it. God bless you. Double prop [Music] to me. You know that game like see the way she want. I swear to God that she do comfort. Give me love again. Give me love again. If you give me love again, I will never give comfort. Give me love again. Give me love again. If you don’t give me the make comfort. [Music] [Music] Yeah. [Music] Yeah. Yeah. My baby so she beautiful. Any time I see her face you I could tell now because of you my call big man. See the way she be like foo. Give me love again. Give me love again. 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October 04, 2025
MLB playoffs 2025 Quarter-finals
Detroit Tigers vs Seattle Mariners Full Game
MLB Full Game
