Tigers vs. Mariners | 2025 ALDS Game 5
Game five, a winner take all matchup between the Tigers and Mariners at T-Mobile Park. The roof is closed. You see Rick RZ and Eric Goldmith trying to fire up the Seattle crowd here. What a night. What a match up we have. Tom Bduchi is down on the field ready to go. Tom, thanks Adam. Just 10 miles from here at Bannerwood Park, home of the Seattle University Red Hawks, TK Scooble began a path that has taken him to be one of the best pitchers in baseball. And he’s also returning to an opportunity he had last year, ALDS game five, in which he gave up five runs in a span of 18 pitches and lost. Now he has another opportunity to become the third Tigers left-hander to win a winner take all game. Hal Newhauser 1945, Mickey Lich 1968. Who both did it on this same date, October the 10th. History will be written tonight. And now the ball again is in the hands of TK Scubble to decide how it is written. Adam, perhaps it will repeat itself as well. Tom, history has been on the side of Carrie Carpenter when he has faced George Kirby. He leads it off for the Tigers. He’s 5 for 11 with five home runs against tonight’s Seattle starter, including one in game one. And the big change tonight, Colt Keith and Zack McKinstry, five and six are the pocket of back-to- back lefthanders in this Detroit order. That may play into how Dan Wilson uses his bullpen tonight behind George Kirby, who started and pitched well in five innings in game one. He did it. He has electric stuff. We’re going to see fast balls in the upper 90s. He touched 99 miles an hour in game one. This guy’s going to throw two different breaking balls that have huge horizontal break on it. Going to see a couple of splits. We’re going to see a lot of those breaking balls and a lot of those high octane octane fast balls at the top of the zone. AJ, we talked about it right out of the gate. Kirby’s got to face a guy who has really had his number. Carrie Carpenter has done it five times against George Kirby going deep. And it’s these high fast balls that Carrie Carpenter is able to get to. That ball is up out of the zone. Carrie right into Carrie Carpenter swing. Look at these balls. The home runs. They’re all in the middle. Not in, not out. They’re down and up and in the middle, but they’re in the middle of the plate. You’ve got to get to the corners. Get in and out. Not down the middle to Carrie Carpenter. 27 years old from Ry, New York. A New York Yankee fan growing up. His catcher Cal Raleigh grew up a Boston Red Sox fan. That battery consistently good together over the last few seasons. This is the defense for Seattle. One error in this entire series so far. Arosa Raino Rodriguez and a great arm in Robas and right. Suarez, Crawford, Palongo, and Josh Naylor, who does have the lone error, but has also turned two very important double plays. And Cal Raleigh, the excellent catcher, the platinum glove winner last year. Once again, we’ll catch George Kirby as Carpenter climbs in against the right-hander. It’s the first postseason meeting all time between these two teams in this series, and it comes down to a winner take all. Game five, the Toronto Blue Jays await the winner 2500 miles east on Sunday night. Alan Porter calls balls and strikes tonight. Off we go in game five. I love that first pitch from him right there. This is someone who’s 5 for 11 with five home runs. The first pitch of the game can’t be just an automatic fast ball. Carpenter laces one to short, knocked down by Crawford. He will have no play and Carpenter is aboard with a hard hit leadoff single. Well, that’s the first time he’s kept him in the park. So, that’s a win for George Kirby. But I’m going to say this about what you watch from George Kirby. You mentioned the first pitch was a slider. The second pitch was also a slider. Why? Cuz in the first game, as we see Carpenter hit this, it’s almost a knuckle ball to JP Crawford. Tough play. Hits off the the thumb of his glove. But a lot of breaking balls for these Tigers. for the first time with Kirby. They really struggled with them. They’ve struggled against breaking balls the entire season. So, look for more of that out of these Mariners. First pitch swinging. Blabber Torres fouls one back. He’s put together decent numbers in his career against Kirby as well. Last couple of games in Detroit, four for seven, including a home run in the Tigers offensive explosion in game four to send this thing back to Seattle. There’s an 01 bunt shown pulled back and it is a strike. Flavor is susceptible to the fast ball up, but it’s got to be middle towards the inside part. It can’t be out away from him. That’s the one he drives. One two strike three. [Applause] The old high slider trick. You see Glaver’s reaction that that ball is is high. As a hitter, you cannot swing at that because you see it out of the hand as a slider. If Al Valen Porter is giving that to George Kirby, then he can ride that high fast ball off of it. Green rolls one over to second, picked up by Palanco. Throw it to Crawford and he will have no relay throw with the slide from Carpenter. They get the lead runner for the second out of the inning. Green who had a big home run to put Detroit on top in game four. He is at first on a fieldielder’s choice. And there’s two away for Spencer Tolson. Very steady Torqulson all season long. He’s had a couple of big RBI hits in this series in game two and game three. Ball one. Slider breaks in for a strike. The fast ball for Kirby was excellent all season long. The slider was his second best strikeout pitch this year. The 1-1 fouled off the end of the bat and a chance to finish off a scoreless first inning for George Kirby. Slider, slider, slider, slider. again. He threw 21 in game one. Nine swings and misses, one for eight off that. We’ve seen one hit already, but I think it was more of a curveball. You’re going to see a lot of sliders if you’re the Tigers. One, two pitch. School’s coming. Tonight’s telecast is sponsored by Google Cloud, the official AI partner of Major League Baseball. Catch the game like never before with Google Cloud AI, arguably the most famous hit in Seattle Mariners history. the double 30 years and a couple of days ago from Edgar Martinez who is the director of hitting strategy for this Seattle offense. An offense that took a huge turn this year and has a lot to do with the Hall of Famer Martinez scored Ken Griffy Jr. in that contest to beat Blackjack McDow and send the Mariners to the American League Championship Series. Tonight they face TK Scoville, the outstanding left-hander, triple crown winner and Sai Young award winner last season trying to beat this Seattle team for the first time this year. Randy Rosena leads it off and takes strike one. Four for 18 with six strikeouts in this series. He’s got an RBI in the game three Seattle win. He did not go around and the count is even. Look at that career for Rose Arena. Of course, the incredible run with Tampa Bay in 2020. He had 10 home runs in that postseason, the expanded playoff. Little tapper. Scoo gloves, spins, throws, and it’s dug out by Torlson for out number one. Nice play by TKO as he retires a Rose Arena. Now will face Cal Raleigh, the 60 home run switchhitting star, and then Julio Rodriguez. This is the same lineup. Suarez and Naylor have switched a little bit throughout this series. It’s Suarez and Naylor in the 56 spots. And with the lefty on the mound, the right-handed Mitch Garver is the DH in the seven hole. Here is Raleigh. Two-run home run in game three. All four of his RBI’s in this series came in Detroit. MVP candidate. Nice play by Torlson on this play right here as the runner’s running up the line. The throw gets into the throw the running lane. He stays in he stays in the play right there. Doesn’t get scared of the runner. Makes that tough pick. Wasn’t scared of getting hit. And you know Randy Rosena well. That is not a small man in Randy Rose Arena coming down the line. Two and0 on Cal Raleigh. Hitters count. Batting right-handed against the lefty scubble tonight. 3 and 0. Tonight from Trick, we’re going to see the most used pitch he has is a change up. Now, that hasn’t been the case so far in his two postseason appearances, but lots of change ups, high octane fast balls, and a really good slider. He’s got a good curveball, too, but he hasn’t thrown it much lately. He’s been using that slider. Going to see 98 to 100 miles an hour on that heater, the top of the zone. He’s going to He’s going to pound those righties in. 3-1 count. Raleigh swings and hooks foul. You’ll see him. He’ll work those righties in with that good fast ball. And once you get hitters aware of that fast ball in, it sets up that great change up middle down and away from them. Regular season for school. Worthy of another Sai Young certainly after winning it last year. Full count on Cal Raleigh. His first All-Star season, an MVP candidate. One of the leaders, if not the leader of this group, swings and hooks fouled again on top of that fast ball. That’s in the rafters. It’s in the very very top way up there. It’s going to hit the roof basically with the roof closed tonight. You see with a 3-2 count though how aggressive he’s being because Scubble only walked 33 people all season in 31 starts. Incredible numbers. They’ll pitch again. Raleigh loops it on the left for a base hit. AJ his eighth hit of this series sets it up for Julio Rodriguez with a man on. And a tremendous bat by Cal Raleigh after all the foul ball. after all the foul balls. But here’s you see Terrick Scuba on the Google foresight. 61% to record A plus strikeouts. It all depends on how long he’s out there. These these numbers are why he’s the more than likely Sai Young in the American League. Rodriguez will take a strike. Appreciate Google Cloud for powering those real time insights. Our Fox foresight powered by Google Cloud. He has tortured Detroit pitching this season. Better than an,00 OPS for his career, but he’s quickly behind of school. Nothing at two on a high fast ball. [Applause] Rodriguez, who signed with Seattle at age 16, waves and misses on that nasty change up. So, Scooble busted out to get Rodriguez in the second out of the first inning. And what set up that great change up that we know he has. It’s one of the best pitches in all of baseball was the pitch before the fast ball up and in. Fast up and in. Gets him gets him feeling him in. Gets him filling him up. And then he just works it right off of that. Starts right down the middle. He’s got that great horizontal movement just off the plate. Hard to cover both. And Palanco going right after TKO after homering off of him twice back in game two on Sunday. Those are his career numbers against him. Nobody has seen school more than Palanco, of course, a longtime Minnesota Twin. Here’s the 01. Nothing at two. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Great year versus left-handed pitching for Jorge Palanco. A switch hitter batting right-handed. He’s typically better against righties for his career. This was one of his best seasons as a longtime big leager against left-handed pitching. The O2. [Music] There’s the splits this season. One-two pitch is fouled away again. Palanco making it tough. And we saw this with his last game. We’ve really seen this out of him for the last few months. He sets his sights belt high and up, maybe thigh high and up. And anything down, he’s taken. Last game against Scoo. Anything down, he took it. He’s making him throw the ball up in the zone for strikes. He’s not offering it anything else. Waved on and missed. The change up gets Palano. He goes back to back against Rodriguez and Palano to leave Raleigh stranded. We’re through one. The Emerald City here in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle, Washington. Wonderful sights, sounds, and smells as well. Great food scene out here in Seattle. Had a great time. And we’re back for game five in a winner take all game. Top of the second and scoreless between Detroit and Seattle. It’ll be Colt Keith followed by another lefty and Zack McKinstry and then the righty Dylan Dingler against Kirby. First pitch back up the middle and Crawford perfectly shaded over plays out of bounce and throws out Colt Keith. One away for Kirby and his manager Dan Wilson who was part of the 2001 LCS team. The last time this team went into baseball’s final four, took over as the manager for Scott Service last August, 14 months on the job, and has this team one win away from the LCS. Here’s McKinstry and he’ll take a strike. And Dan Wilson more probably than AJ Hinch has more decisions ahead of him depending on now things could go sideways for Scooball. It has been known to happen, but he has many more decisions and he probably has more options. because he has Luis Castillo, he has Logan Gilbert in the in the bullpen as options if they need length and plus he has his great bullpen that’s been there all year. So Dan Wilson’s probably going to be making more trips out there. But AJ Hinch has that guy on the mound who he hopes he never has to go out there. And that was AJ Hinch’s quote to us today. He goes, “I hope I never have to walk out of the dugout today cuz that means Derek Scooble is doing what we want Tercoel to do.” His team forces a game five. AJ Hinch, that game four victory was the 1,000th of his career as a manager. Breaking ball roll to second. Palanco with a nice neat snare and he spins the throw for out number two. Another nice play here by the Mariners. Keith hit a rocket. JP Crawford made a play and then Palano here goes way into the hole. Nice little spin move. Sets his feet and a perfect throw to Naylor. Two up and two down for Dylan Dingler, the Detroit catcher. Slider strike to start him off. Just three hits in the playoffs so far for Dingler, but he had the big home run in the winner take all game three in the wildard series at Cleveland. pulls this on the ground to short for Crawford. And a one, two, three. And work by Kirby. [Music] Derek Scubble in his third start of this 2025 postseason faces Auano Suarez who goes around and swings and misses to start this bottom of the second inning. Suarez 0 for five with three strikeouts in his career against Scooble. [Applause] and he waves and misses. Just two for 15 with six strikeouts in this postseason. One of those hits though, a home run in game three. Big leg kick in that pitch floats outside on a change. And what one thing that helps that change up even more, his fast ball. Yeah, it’s 98 99 100 mph, but it’s also got almost 5 in of pull cut. So it’s just baron hard into those righthanders hands and then it’s harder to catch up on the outside when it’s floating down and away. Three straight strikeouts for Scooball all on the change up. Our Stack Cast 3D is powered by Google Cloud. Wayne will walk me through. Now you you got to be ready for 100 milesPH. So you that’s the pitch that hitters they never want to be embarrassed by. AJ says it all the time. You got to be ready to hit fast ball. His average fast ball 98 mph. So you have to be ready to hit that. But the change up looks exactly the same except for it just has, you see it, man. Just has that darting, diving action that’s hard to hit. And now AJ Josh Naylor fouls one away. He’s two for 18 in his career against Terrick School. It’s a tough match up for a lefty against the lefty. Yeah, but he’s had some good at bats. Even though he hasn’t done a lot of damage in this postseason, he’s had the bats that AJ Hinch keeps talking about because he fouls off so many pitches. Doesn’t go away quietly. It’s 10 pitch at bat, nine pitch at bat and it just wears down some of these Tiger pitchers. Baylor had his best game in game four. Was 0 for13 in the first three before a three hit game in Detroit on Wednesday. 1-1 bouncing ball foul. So far, you can tell both these starting pitchers came out here focused. You could tell they they weren’t worried about nerves and all those things. They just came out here and started competing. Right now, you’ve seen two two starting pitchers that are executing every pitch so far this game. Why Wilson went to Kirby and AJ Hinge knew from the start that he was going to tear Scooville in this one. A ball and two strikes on Josh Naylor. Reaches out and this is the type of swing you’re talking about, AJ. He just makes it tough on you. had a great at bat against Jack Flity in game three where he fouled away seven pitches. Well, these are just emergency hacks by Naylor. When he gets the two strikes, he just goes into basic protection mode where he tries to foul off pitches until someone makes a mistake. He’s done this repeatedly in this series. He loops one down the left field line towards the corner. It’s going to drop fair. Josh Naylor with an extra base hit, protects the plate, and he’s in scoring position for Seattle in the second. So, this is all he’s trying to do is put the ball in play. And this ball is well off the plate away. This ball is probably 6 to 8 in off the plate. But he just gets the bat on it. Emergency swing, takes what he gives him, and he places his ball down the left field line for a double. straight it back. Pitchers hate when hitters allow their hands to just continue through the zone like that rather than roll over. That pitch right there, Terry wanted him to either swing and miss or try to roll it over. Garver stands in and takes ball one. Watch how he just serves this out there. doesn’t try to hit it too hard like AJ said, but you see he doesn’t doesn’t roll that top hand over at all. Just served it out there. Garver waves and misses way out in front of that change up and even the counter to ball and a strike and the former World Series champion with the Texas Rangers. See, I think when a guy like Naylor comes up and you get to two strikes, you either got to go up way out of the zone or down where he cuz he gets in swing mode with two strikes. You got to make him hit a ball that’s nowhere close. Oh wow. He’s taken off for third. The throw down by Dingler and Naylor has a steel. Crowd effects right here. This is this is the crowd affecting this game. Naylor had a huge lead. He stole a ton of bases this year like this by getting gigantic jumps. But everyone on the field is yelling, “Step off. Step off.” Teruba can’t hear him. He’s not looking. He can’t hear him. He goes home and Naylor is at third with one out. That is a big man who hit 20 plus home runs and had 30 stolen bases. He has a very high IQ. He has the second slowest sprint speed in all of baseball. Only Alejandro Kirk of Toronto is slower, but he stole 30 bags and he’s at third for Garver. The 2-1 way out in front again in that change up two and two. That was the crowd. He couldn’t hear him. You could see in the replay we showed from home plate. Glaver Torres yelling, “Step off.” I guarantee you, Dingler was yelling, “Step off. Step off.” And because the crowd was so loud that he couldn’t hear it and Naylor got to third. Two- two pitch. Garber serves it out right center field. Long run for Meadows. He’ll get there, but this will score Naylor from third. And the Mariners strike first in this game. Five. [Applause] They generate a run with Josh Naylor who’s able to put together a fabulous season on the bait pads. A heads up steal of third and the fly ball is enough to score him. Here’s Victor Robless. I think what happens as a as a pitcher right here, you don’t think of him as a fast runner, even though you know he has 30 30 bags, but he’s on second. You don’t think he’s going to take third and you fall into patterns. You fall into patterns with your timing, with your with your head looks, all these things. is as soon as you come up, let’s say you you come up set, you say 1 10 1 10,00 2 1, you go. Right? If you do that a couple times in a row with a smart base runner on second like that, he’s going to time you up and he’s going to go. Must off the fist foul by Robas. And again, Naylor wasn’t on base very often in the first three games of this series, so he didn’t have an opportunity to steal. Seattle strikes first. They have scored in all five games first in this series. Scoo gets another strike out on the change up, but he’s sitting at 36 pitches right now. Naylor with a two strike double, a steal, a third, and Garver with a two strike sack fly. Naylor’s been involved these last two games. It’s one- nothing. Welcome back to Seattle with Mariners manager Dan Wilson. You knew you were getting a big bat at first base and Josh Naylor, but what about his base running in that particular plate? Did it surprise you? Yeah, I mean, he’s he’s done it all and and a big bat there to get the inning started and then, you know, he’s just a smart headsy player. Takes advantage of what he can take advantage of and and uh uh able to get into third base there, guard with a big bat to get him in. And a quick thought on your pitcher here, George Kirby, especially the slider early on. Yeah, I mean uh he’s got a good one tonight and and uh you know, he threw it well the first uh you know, ball game he threw against this team. So, uh, good stuff from George Early. Uh, you know, nice to take that lead and and, uh, we’ll keep it rolling. Thanks so much, Dan. Thanks, Don. Quickly, nothing and two from Kirby to the eight hitter and center fielder, Parker Meadows. Already a couple of strikeouts on that Kirby fast ball so far for the first two innings. Only two balls out of the zone on 19 pitches. There’s the third. Just to follow up, Dan Wilson, Josh Naylor this year with the Mariners 20 for 20 with stolen bases. 20 for 20. Never got thrown out. That’s incredible. He only got caught twice while he was in Arizona this year. Somebody at that size with a general lack of speed. So smart. Breaking ball is bounced. Foul. Naylor. He and his wife Shantel welcomed a child to the world this week. So, it’s been an emotional week as well. Daniel Kramer reported it earlier this week on MLB.com. Naylor opted not to speak further about it and perfectly understandable, keeping his family life private, but Dan Wilson did inform us that everything went well this week for he and Shantel. So, congratulations to Naylor and family. There’s a one-two pitch to Meadows. Check swing down to third. No swing. Little bit of dad strength in that stolen base and the double before it. Are you going to I guess dad strength on the double. Dad’s speed on the field. [Applause] Two two pitch pulled towards Naylor right on Q. The backhand for round number one. Well, tomorrow night is another winner take all game. It’ll be the Cubs and the Brewers from Milwaukee, 8 Eastern on TBS. And then the first game of the American League Championship Series gets underway from North of the Border. The top team in the American League, the Toronto Blue Jays, dispatch the Yankees in four games. They await the winner of this contest. [Applause] Four straight ground ball outs. Now Bayz takes a big cut and a high slider. Talk about that first inning being so important for starting pitchers. George Kirby so far, 24 pitches, 20 strikes. He’s got pound in the zone with all of his pitches so far. [Applause] There’s an 01 fouled back and it’s quickly nothing and two on Bayz who busted it open in game four. He tied it and then had a big home run late to put Detroit on top by four. They cruise to a game four win to force game five. Just one for 13 in his career against Kirby. One for 14. Here’s that nasty slider again. Starts at middle of the plate. Well, that’s a knuckle curve. Starts middle of the plate. Look how Look at the horizontal action on that ball. That ball is six inches more horizontal than most. Carpenter fouls one. Six inches more horizontal than the average. That is a whole lot. That’s hard to square up. He has thrown a first pitch strike to every hitter but Spencer Tolson. He’s ahead of Carrie Carpenter. Nothing in one. He had the infield single. The only blemish so far against Kirby in game five, the 01 line driving into right field, a base hit. He takes a slider into right field and he’s two for two. Carpenter continues to hit well against Kirby and he extends the inning to Glaver Torres. Another win though for George Kirby, kept him in the park. That’s right. He came into this game 5 for 11 with five homers. He’s now seven for 13, but still with five homers. If George Kirby can give him up singles to Carrie Carpenter, he’ll take it. Especially, he’s not a base steeler. It might take two hits to score him. That’s some ownage. That kind of that kind of ices the manager decision next time he comes up though, doesn’t it? There’s Torres. Fouls it away. Depending on the situation. If there’s any ducks on the pond, the next time Carrie Carpenter comes up, he’s not facing George Kirby. He’s had two rockets off of him so far. 105 on the infield single off of Crawford’s glove and then 107 just then. Torres holds back and it’s even at one. Yeah, but if they’re if they score a couple more runs and there’s two outs and nobody on or something. Yeah, he’ll let him face him. But no, if it stays one- nothing and there’s somebody on base, absolutely Gabe Spire or somebody else will see Carrie Carpenter this time of year and we talked about it with managers over the years. They manage the playoffs so differently. They manage late games in series so much differently, especially a winner take all game. The phrase all hands on deck applies tonight. The two-1 to Torres in there for a strike and it’s two and two. Everybody looks at hits and this and that, but these are the bats that really matter. The Glaver Torres get on before what many people believe Riley Green is their best hitter. If he can get on here, there’ll be a runner in scoring position with a chance for Riley Green. Two- two pitch way outside and it’s three and two. Carpenter will be on the move on this 3-2 delivery. This got to be a slider, right? Or would you rush him with a heater? He’s susceptible to the heater, but he’s also susceptible to a slider. I think he’s got to go hard in here. Carpenter goes payoff pitch. He got him. Leaves a man stranded. We go to the bottom of the third in game five. One- nothing. [Music] One- nothing Seattle. Bottom of the third in game five. JP Crawford will take ball one from TKO. 98 mph pitch was that sinker. Used a lot of those in game two. [Music] Couple of close pitches go Crawford’s way. It’s 2 and 0. Crawford the longest tenure Seattle Mariner deep into his seventh season with the club now. A lot of babies have been born in that span. 200. There’s a strike. Derek Schubel, the Seattle University product, the ballpark he played at in college, only about 10 miles from T-Mobile Park where we are tonight. [Applause] Cares a lot about this city. The previous times he’s come to pitch here. This year he has brought several of these Seattle University Red Hawk baseball players out. He’s talked to them. But his college coach Donnie Herrell isn’t here tonight. He wanted to change up the mojo cuz he had come here the last couple of times. Said, “You know what? Tick lost those games. Instead, we’re going to hold a house party tonight and watch from home instead and cheer him on that way.” Two pitch to Crawford. Fouled back. Don’t tell me baseball players aren’t superstitious. Mhm. [Applause] another two two waved on and miss. Got him with the fast ball that time. That is now four strikeouts for JP or for TK school the first time through the order. He’s done a good job, Terrick Scooble. The the emergency hack double by Josh Naylor and then the funky stolen base is what’s led to the Mariners having this lead. The key is though that pitch count for Carubel is already on at 43 and we’re only two and a third in. The Mariners are doing a nice job of having deep at bats and not punching out on three and not making early contact for outs. The discussion was around school bowl. Listen, he can go seven, he can go eight, he can even go nine. He’s thrown a shut out this year, but he hasn’t often gone over a 100 pitches, only a few times, including in the wildard series. There’s another strike. Well, just like they did to Jack Flity, they’re making him work tonight with foul balls. They have 14 foul balls in 45 pitches. Wow. One-two pitch is popped back in our direction. Tom Braduchcci is down to the field with more. Yeah, these death by a thousand cuts, right? 20 foul balls in game two already at 15 here. And Scribble is a guy. He came out at game two on 97 pitches in a tie game. He was gassed. He’s a high energy, high velocity guy. Whoa, broken bat. Shattered it as that one went towards Short. Christopher Negron had to be ready to grab the ball as that bat went flailing into the outfield. Just saw it off a Rose Arena. I think that’s the way you got to be in the playoffs if you’re a if you’re a high octane guy like this. Look, give me every single thing you got for as long as you can go. We’re not holding anything back. Just blew him up inside right there. Look at the bat. But your team needs everything you got. You can’t save anything for the later innings and give up a crooked spot. You got to give everything you got every single pitch. And when they take the ball from you, you give it to them. One, two, one. A Rose Arena out in front of a change up. Had to juggle the helmet as he goes down swinging. That’s six strikeouts. All but one have come on the change up. [Applause] [Music] The two up and two down for Cal Raleigh. The type of matchup you hope you see at the ballpark. Sai Young award winner from last year against the potential MVP in Cal Raleigh. A lot of discussion around him and New York’s Aaron Judge. Raleigh a 60 home run season as a catcher. skies one foul. It’s incredible history. He surpassed Salvador Perez for the most home runs by a primary catcher this year. The old record was 48. He surpassed Mickey Manel for the most home runs by a switch hitter. And then he passed Ken Griffy Jr. for the most home runs in a single season by a Seattle Mariner. Incredible year for Raleigh. He watches one high. Two and one. That slider pitch right there. He made a lot of mistakes with that the first start against Seattle in game two. He’s leaving it up. He needs to bury that if he’s going to throw it into these righties. Another high leverage count. Three and one yet again on Raleigh. Scooble comes home. Raleigh pops it up. Foul. Three and two. Another foul ball. [Applause] I talked to Jake Rogers early. He really likes him to throw that slider back door for tanks. Then if he’s going to throw it in, he’s got to throw it back foot to the right. He’s not so much up in the zone like he’s used it so far this series. Jake Rogers was the main catcher for scuba last season. Dylan Dingler has been the main catcher this year for Detroit. Dingler and Raleigh, two outstanding defensive catchers this season. Got him with that fast ball. 101 miles an hour from Scooble to put away the potential MVP. He strikes out the side in the third. Busted out the fast ball that time. We’re through three in Seattle. Welcome back to Seattle. I’m with AJ Hinch, Tigers manager. AJ, 11 batters to come to the plate against Terrick Scoble. 18 foul balls, four by Josh Naylor in that key at bat. What do you see? Well, just some long at bats and now now he’s punched out seven of nine outs. So, anytime you have that and some long foul balls, you’re going to find yourself with some deep counts. So they’re making him work, but he’s responding. Say George Kirby gets the out there on another slider. We’ve seen a lot of those tonight. Does he look different tonight than he did in game one? You know, his velocity is up a little bit, so it’s got a little bit of hover to it where it’s it’s harder than than even his normal slider, it feels like, which stays up a little bit and starting to jam some of our lefties, but he’s throwing a ton of strikes, but our balls are going in play and we’re making some outs. Thanks, AJ. You got it. He gets the first out on Riley Green now faces the right-hander Torlson who struck out on a fast ball in the first. No swing says our first base umpire tonight Nate Tomlinson who’s making his playoff debut in this series. There’s another slider. We’ve seen a heavy dose of that, AJ, so far. Well, that’s what he’s been doing. That’s what I said the scouting report was. If you’re a Tiger fan and you’re a Tiger hitter, you’re going to get a lot of these sliders. They’ve been effective. Like AJ Hinch said, they just other than Carpenter. Other than Carpenter, they’ve had a hard time. They put them in play. They just haven’t gotten any hits. And you see right here, 26 p 26 sliders. Jeez. I mean that is if that ain’t the scouting report and you don’t know it by now if you’re a Tigers hitter better figure it out real quick. Two balls in a strike on Torqulson who swings and launches it towards left but Arosa Raina is there for out number two back to the third inning when he faced Jav Bayz. Yeah, watch what he does right here. First pitch. Obvious super aggressive first pitch and then another one up in the zone. But watch this third one. This is one I You see how much that sucker broke. It started on the outer third and broke a foot off the plate. It’s been a great strikeout pitch all year for Kirby who faces Colt Keith. Deals a ball. And that’s one of the things about Kirby. He has always in his career been around the strike zone. It does make him susceptible to some home runs. He’s given up 72 in about 113 starts. The one, but so far, like in that graphic right there, nothing was in the middle. It was all up and in and it was all down and away. And that’s the way he’s kind of been. That’s when he was so effective. Game one was when he was when he was up and in. When he was down and away. Down and in that time. And Keith went around. It’s two balls in a strike. But it’s so late. That sword that he just got right there, the ball, he thought that was going to be one of those nasty rideback sinkers and it got about halfway and just darted the other way. Strike two. That’s the X game right there. I call that the X game because it gets right to a certain point in the throw and it either goes left or right. You don’t know if it’s going which way. Could be really tough to cover. Two- two pitch. Oh, that went inside and got a piece of cold. Keith lost a curveball that time to Kirby. And he puts a base runner aboard with two outs in the fourth. got him right on the shoe top there. The outside of the foot there’s there’s a little he has the the shin guard, the foot protector, but there’s no protection when it hits that bone on the outside of the foot. That stinks. Yeah. You see Kirby’s frustration cuz he knew he had him set up for that back foot slider and he just yanked a little bit of a curveball there. And the Tigers got to figure out a way to score some runs. I mean, you can talk about school ball. They haven’t scored a run in the first four innings the entire series. All 18 runs have come in the fifth or later in this set. There’s a strike to McKinstry. In fact, of the 27 Detroit runs in the postseason, counting the wild card series, 24 of them have come in the fifth inning or later. Kirby to the first time all-star Zack McKinstry who takes a pitch off the plate and a little high. I know he just got hit in the foot, but is there any way you put this guy in motion right here, AJ? Trying to get him the two outs to second base. No, Keith. Keith can’t run. Keith can’t run like that. No, absolutely not. There he goes. He takes off. Raleigh’s throw down to second 10. Not there. He’s safe. He tried two stolen bases all season. He was one for two. And in the biggest game of the year, Colt Keith after getting smacked in the foot tries to steal second base. We have a review though. Seattle is challenging the state call at second base. This will be a replay review. It is presented by Zoom. I mean, that is about as perfect of a throw right to the glove of JP Crawford. And this is going to be an interesting call. This is why Cal Raleigh wins platinum gloves because he can make throws like this. That’s about as bang bang as you can get. He’s out though. His foot hasn’t hit the base and the throw the tag the throw leads the tag right into the runner. AJ, I mean that’s an A+ throw right there cuz JP Crawford sticks his glove on the bag or in front of the bag and barely has to move it. Yeah, he’s out. This should be quick. But that’s why I didn’t think you’d run because there there’s numerous reasons. Yes, you want to get them into scoring position, but also you don’t want to give the Mariners an out. You you got a chance and if you’re the Tigers, you want to get to the top of the order as many times as possible. You can’t give them an out right there. Alan Porter with the call. They were chanting MVP for Cal Raleigh, not only for his offense, but for his exceptional defense. Crawford didn’t have to do a whole lot. Dan Wilson, the former catcher, loves it. Together is baseball’s platform, embodying the sports commitment to philanthropic causes and mental wellness efforts by teams, players, and the league. To learn more, visit mlbto together.com. Rally cuts down cold Keith. And here’s Julio Rodriguez. First pitch swinging against Scooble. Derek Scooble struck out the side in the third, including Raleigh on a fast ball. But it took 18 pitches. In fact, it took 18 pitches to get through each of the first three innings tonight. You got Rodriguez on a change up in the first. One of the seven school Ks. Rodriguez. No, that’s takes inside. [Applause] Home with the 1-1. Two and one. [Applause] Rodriguez fouls one away and it’s two balls in two strikes. Let’s go back to the steel attempt by Colt Keith and the cut down by Cal Raleigh. Again, you want to win a platinum glove, you make throws like this. George Kirby’s a little slow to the plate, but that release, the transfer, and then the perfect throw. And let’s give JP Crawford some credit. Look at that transfer. Let’s give JP Crawford some credit. He lets the ball travel and it travels right into Colt Keith’s leg, and that’s why he’s out. That’s probably hard to catch that ball when you know he’s sliding right into your glove at the same time, isn’t it? Absolutely. But that’s what they’re taught to do now. Don’t go get the ball. The ball travels faster than you can tag. And by the way, one of the best stats I’ve ever seen. Zero pass balls in over a thousand innings caught. That’s incredible. Payoff pitch to Rodriguez who’s out in front of the change up. Second straight time that Rodriguez has been a little out in front. That great speed mix and it’s eight strikeouts for Scooble, but it’s another six pitches to get to that strikeout. Terrick’s doing a great job in those big moments and that 3-2 counts and 3-1 counts, but it’s not great that he keeps getting into those 3-2 3-1 counts. The Mariners batters are really working him. One away for Palano who launches it down the left field line towards the pole and it’s fouled. Oh, he almost got him again and even Scooble had to let out a sigh of relief. I mean, at some point, AJ, you got to just throw change ups down the way to this guy, right? Yeah, that that was just a whiff. That was a miss. He tried He’s trying to throw a fast ball up and away, and he throws it he yanks it down and in. School’s thinking, I don’t want to miss there again. Blanco got him twice on Sunday in game two. The 01 outside on that change up. Jorge Palano, a huge signing for Seattle, coming back after injury issues last season. Jerry Dotto opted to bring him back on a one-year deal, it’s paid dividends. There’s the change up, though, and it’s one and two. Yeah, if I’m pitching and I keep trying to come in and I’m not making the pitch, sometimes sometimes pitcher or hitters have your number as a pitcher because you don’t throw them good pitches. And the two home runs in the first game were were not good pitches. So sometimes you have those guys, but you got to make an adjustment. Now you just got to do stuff down, away from him, down, and inco fouls it away on a fast ball. But down being the key the key point right there. Scoo almost 200 innings tossed this year for AJ Hinch. led the American League in erra with a career-high strikeout number at 241 this year. Just an incredible two-year stretch for Scooble where the Tigers have gone 42 and 21 in his starts. He’s got a two- two pitch to Palano. It’s fouled back. Another deep count though. Another deep count. Yep. 66. Just keep watching that number. I don’t know what the number is that AJ Hinch will let him go to, but if it stays one- nothing, he’s still in control. You could see that climb to a 120ish, maybe 110. There’s one guy in the league that you might trust to go that high at school. And he gets Palano on the change up down and away. Well, he’s punching out everybody. He’s punching everybody’s ticket. That’s 1 2 3 4 5 six in a row. But it’s just taking him a while. It’s not one, two, three, six, seven, eight pitches. But he is punching out the world right now. [Applause] Yeah, there’s not very many first pitch outs on that Mariners team. Last five batters, all of them have seen six pitches during this strikeout stretch. Suarez waves and misses at a 100. It’s not that they’re not swinging either. They just don’t his stuff is like it’s the most swing and miss stuff in the game. Nothing and two. So fast ball then change up induces two swings from the swing happyappy Suarez who struck out the fifth most times in baseball and both of them are way off the plate. So right now you know you don’t have to give him anything over the plate to swing at. Well along with those strikeouts being top five. So are Suarez’s homer and RBI totals this year. Hit 49 bombs. 02 pitch fouled back. I think it’s too good right there. Don’t you think AJ’s you got two swings in a row? You know he’s in swing mode. Two swings in a row. Way off the plate. Don’t come on the plate for your third one. Well, he tried to go up and in at 100 like he did on the first pitch. So now he’s got the change up set up. He’s going to try to go up and in again. He goes with a fast ball up and in and he strikes out the side for the second consecutive inning. 10 strikeouts through four for Scooble, but still one- nothing as we head to the fifth. [Music] Well, to kick things off in Seattle, Ken Griffy Jr. showed off some serious talent on the organ with a unique rendition of Charge. And then the kid, the maestro, now he’s teaming up with Nike in a new campaign as he brings music to the magic of October. A pretty cool moment here. The great Ken Griffy Jr. was part of those really great 1990s Mariners teams. Zack McKinstry is at the plate to face George Kirby to begin the fifth. The Mariners played in the first ever game five of a division series in 1995. 30 years ago is when the division series format was introduced and implemented. They did it again in 2001 against Cleveland. That was the last time they went to the American League Championship Series. Detroit won the first three times they were in a game five of a DS in 2011, 2012, and 2013. And then last year went on the road in Cleveland, game five of the division series. That big grand slam in the fifth from Lane Thomas turned around game five for Cleveland on route to their spot in the LCS last year. 3 and 0 to Mckinstry to start this fifth inning. Detroit trying to get some base runners. It’s been the fifth inning and beyond where they put up offense in this series. And now you’re starting to get into the chess match as the left-hander Spire and the right-hander Matt Brash are both loosening up in the bullpen. McKinstry takes a strike. Three and two. Dinglers on deck. Any base runner, I feel like Dan Wilson goes to the bullpen here. I just feel like these g these this game obviously is so important, but these outs are so important. George Kirby’s done a great job in the new baseball. This is the new baseball with guys like Brash and Spire. Spires is up for Carrie Cary and his at bat and then possibly Riley Green depending on what happens there. But Brash is there. If there’s any traffic, Dingler, Meadows, Bayz, that’s why he’s up. Yep. So if Mckiner can get on, this could be the end right here for George Kirby. Home of the payoff pitch to McKinstry on the ground to the right side for Naylor. Kirby’s over to cover and get the out. Look at the strike to ball ratio. That’s fairly typical for George Kirby. Scooble has thrown 71 pitches. He has 51 strikes. a lot of that with all those foul balls as well. They’ve been around the zone if nothing else when they’ve poured in these pitches. Yeah, it’s it definitely is where we’ve gotten today. It’s absolute crazy talk. If you look at the way the game used to be played, a pitcher would have 55 pitches in the middle of the fifth with all those strikes thrown and strikeouts and be double barrel in the bullpen. There’s Dingler. Fouls one back. Tom Buchcci, you can add. Well, they’re turning defense into offense being so aggressive, but that’s their DNA. George Kirby, the highest strikeout to walk rate in baseball history for a fourth year player. And TKO threw a higher percentage of strikes than anybody in baseball this year. He’s at 71% tonight. Good stuff, Tom. Dingler takes one upstairs. Kirby at one point set a major league record with 24 straight strikes to start a game. That was three years ago. And Scooble, one of the ultimate strikeout pitchers in the game. There’s a 1-1. One goes the hitters way. It’s two balls in a strike. One thing that him throwing all these sliders is to these Tigers, they’re laying off the high fast ball. there because he’s th he slowed him down so much. They’re not even offering and that was his pitch, right? So now he’s just slider slider slider and when he has thrown fast balls, they they’re taking them. Just a couple of hits and a hit batter against Kirby so far. Cam shows you a 3-1 and it’s fouled. Howie, that ball, that ball right there is a foot inside, but because he saw a pitch that he thought he could get to, Dylan Dingler attacks it. Now he’s got options here. He can go up with the heater, which he did to Glaver Torres, or he can throw the slider again, which nobody has hit yet, except for Carpenter. Every pitch with such weight on it. Top of the fifth, one- nothing Seattle. And a 3-2 to Dingler. Got him. I thought he was going to go slider right there, AJ. And I think maybe Dingler did too. And that’s why this fast ball up works so much. But he threw it on the plate, too, so he had to offer at it. Look where that is. Still nothing in the middle. Paint up and away right there. Here’s Parker Meadows who grounded out his first time. Meadows, a second round pick in 2018. Multiple injury list stints this year, but the fastest Detroit Tiger. He’s a strong center field. Waves at that slider. One and one. All right, now thinking ahead a little bit, AJ. Do you give your your guys a chance to score again or do you really Are you bringing somebody in for Bayz? One and two. Well, Meadows doesn’t get on. I think I I think that he’ll give him he’ll give Kirby Bayz and then go to Spire for the next three guys. I I think this is it’s either this hitter, you know, Meadows gets on. I think you see Brash for Bayz. And if he doesn’t, then I think you let Kirby hands and then go to the bullpen. One, two, SC on an incredible pace so far. He has struck out 10, including seven straight Mariners. We’ve seen a flurry of pitches, nasty change ups, 101 mph fast balls, up, down, in and out, sliders. This guy’s the total package. 10 punch outs in four innings and no walks. That’s incredible outing. The pitch count is up because of the deep counts, but still, I mean, you’re looking up there going one run on two hits. Naylor out towards left center, perfectly positioned as he often is as Parker Meadows. That ends the streak of seven straight strikeouts for TKO. That is a new Major League Baseball playoff record and the first time I think in history, 10 punches, no walks in four innings by any pitcher in postseason history. And he’s losing, which is crazy, which just tells you how great George Kirby has been as well. Here’s Garver. Sends one down the right field line. Fouling out of play. You can tell they’ve they’ve changed their swings, man. They are not trying to get big. You can see that that was almost like Naylor earlier right there just trying to feed it to right field right there. There’s that change up. I I don’t know why Garver got the first at bat. He got the sack fly. I really don’t know why he didn’t throw him another change up. He rushed him a heater. You’ve seen the swings from Garver on the change up. [Applause] Garver had the sack fly to get the scoring going. Still the lone run in this game so far. Scoo with the 10 strikeouts. He’s only allowed two hits. One of them was the Naylor double in the second. He stole third and then Garver with a fly ball brought him home. A one-two pitch. Postseason baseball. One of the best pitchers in the game. Step up to the biggest stage. No bigger than a winner take all game here tonight. Kirby and Scooble dueling through five with one blemish against the two of them. The two to Garver. Three and two. Another full count. That pitch count creeping up to 80. Garver goes down swinging on a change up. 11 strikeouts for Scooble today. Start your Saturday with a bang. Number one Ohio State rolls into big noon with Phenom Jeremiah Smith and rising star quarterback Julian Sain leading the charge against a top 20 Illinois team. It all starts at Big Noon kickoff back in Champagne at Ohio State Illinois on Fox. I imagine Dylan Dingler might have an eye on that ball game. The former Ohio State Buckeye and now Tiger catcher who was there with Dominic Kzone who’s on the bench tonight for Seattle. Here’s Robas. Ball one. that last strike out. Four straight change ups. He got him O2 really quick. Strike two was a change up. Then he threw three non-competitive pitches outside the zone. And he executed that last one perfectly. Roas out in front. One and one on the change. Well, he was just saying, I’m going to throw enough change ups until I finally get Garver to swing at one, which he eventually did. He finally threw a good one and he got him out. Two-1 delivery. Waved on and missed on a fast ball. Two and two. A chance to finish off another one, two, three inning for Scooble. It would be his third straight if he can do it here. Another full count. Did you see Robas right there? He scooted up in the box. He was going to take that change up away from him on the 2- two count. He scooted way up to the very front of the box. Oh wow. Yeah. Shuffled it. If that had been over the plate, he would have had a good swing at it. Payoff pitch. Robless lifts one out towards shallow right in and to his left is Carpenter towards the line. And another one, two, three inning. Tossed by TK Scooble, who is keeping the Tigers in it as we go to the sixth in game five. T-Mobile, the best network in the game, is now the best network in America. We’re at T-Mobile Park in Seattle tonight where it’s one- nothing Mariners in this winner take all game five. Josh Naylor a double in the second. Stole third on Scooble and then Garver with a sack fly. That’s the only run. Jav Bayz first pitch swinging and a base hit towards left center field over to cut it off is Rodriguez. Bayz is looking for two. Play at second. He’s safe. An aggressive Jav Bayz goes right after Kirby and is in scoring position with the tying run. And we will see if Dan Wilson elects to take Kirby out and bring in the lefty Spire to face Carrie Carpenter. Oh, he gone. He gone. But what a slide by Jav Bayz. Palano whiffs on him. He’s safe at second. Aggressive base running. I love it. First pitch knew what he was going to get. A little slider. Jav Bayz has been really good in this postseason. So Bayz has put Detroit in position to tie the game. And Dan Wilson is not going to let Kirby face Carpenter. Instead, it’s going to be the lefty Spire. And George Kirby getting the talking to from his manager is going to get a great ovation here. Tying one in scoring position for Detroit. George Kirby started the 18in one- nothing loss to Houston in game three of the division series three years ago. Was outstanding then. Still hasn’t allowed a run in an elimination game the last two times, but is responsible for Bayz at second. And this is why AJ Hinch put Carrie Carpenter at the top of the order for this moment to face Gabe Spire and still have an opportunity later. And Hinch loves to pinch hit, but not here because now Spire is off the board. And later on in the game, these will be at bats against right-handed pitching. Carpenter first pitch up and in under the hands. And let’s not forget Riley Green who’s due up third, hit a blast off Spire two days ago in game four that gave Detroit the lead. So Hinch is is comfortable with this. They just need to figure out a way to get by as a third and drive him in. Carpenter swings and sends one out towards right center field. Rodriguez all the way back at the track. This ball’s gone. Carrie Carpenter has done it again. He’s given Detroit the lead in Seattle. [Applause] He did it to Kirby in game one. He does it to Spire in game five. And the Tigers have the lead. Here’s Torres. Tapper up the third baseline. Suarez. Tough play. Nice play out number one in the sixth. Well, I said earlier in the game when George Kirby kept Carrie Carver in the park, that was a win. This is the worst thing that Dan Wilson and the Mariners. The last thing I think they thought would happen. It’s a little fast ball away. Carrie Carpenter, he hit that. So I look at Bayas giving him love. When that ball went up, I didn’t think it had enough. It just kept going and going and George Kirby can’t believe it. Kirby knows that feeling. And now Spire against Green just as it was in game four. This one though will go Spire’s way and a ground out. Two down here in the sixth inning. George Kirby pitched incredible. He he pitched absolutely incredible and he’s thinking gosh maybe they should have let me face car I got it on that no you know and I it’s hard for me to say this so we’re about to maybe have a change but I think that was the right decision to pull your starter at 66 pitches or whatever it was. I I he just couldn’t face Carpenter again. And you didn’t think he was Carpenter was going to have that swing off the great lefty inspire. Kirby can’t believe it. I don’t think Spire can either. Back-to- back games that the outstanding lefty has seen a left-handed hitter for the Tigers launch one for the lead. Carpenter in game five has the Tigers in front in the sixth. Carrie Carpenter swing path. The launch angle perfect for this pitch. Fast ball up and away. Kind of thigh high away. 36° launch angle. 411 ft. That is one of the highest home runs that you can imagine right there. He gets such incredible carry. Spencer Torqulson will face Matt Brash and take a strike. But that ball’s down though, Adam. He can’t drive it. He drives that down and away. It’s a ground ball. It’s something to the left side, but he doesn’t drive it like that, but it’s because it’s up thigh high out over the plate like that. I know it’s away from him, but he’s so strong up out over the plate. You have to get it down to him. Torqulson waves and misses and a slider. Nothing and two. Carrie Carpenter with a huge shot. Everybody out there going, “Why did they take Kirby? Why did they take Kurio?” He’s seven for 13, including two hits tonight with five homers. That was the match up Dan Wilson wanted. That was the match up Hinch was worried about. Rash finishes off Torlson. But Carrie Carpenter, who stepped up against Emanuel Class in the division series last year, who stepped up against Kirby in game one of this series, has come back with another one in game five. Kirby could not believe it as Carpenter strikes again. And the Tigers have the lead. Take a look at Fox Foresight powered by Google Cloud. The Tigers have taken the lead. The Mariners still have a 60% plus chance to score two more runs tonight based on the analytics and what their offense has looked like this year. First pitch swinging. JP Crawford fouls it away against TKO. But Carrie Carpenter comes up yet again in the postseason and he does it against a lefthander in Gabe Spire. Just Carpenters’s fourth home run against a lefty this year. So, as you guys both talked about, you understood the move and AJ, you said in the break, I think both managers understood that this was probably the move that they were going to get. But what did you say after that, Carrie Carpenter? It’s baseball. He won. He won the fight. And he won the fight because it was the right matchup. Everyone’s saying, “Oh, I had 66 pitches. Why is Kirby out of the game?” It was the matchup Dan Wilson wanted. It was the matchup AJ Hench thought they’d get. It was the matchup why Carrie Carpenter’s hitting leadoff for that exact matchup. And to get Spire off the board. All right. Now, let me give you one other alternative. He made a mistake. Okay, Gabe Spire made a mistake and Carrie Carpenter made a pay. But let me let me give you one other alternative. Jav Bayz was at second base. You had first base open. Do you do you stick with Kirby and walk Carpenter to set up the double play? Nope. Here’s a Rose Arena because you’re not letting Kirby face Riley Green again. Kirby, but he’s over. I mean, Riley Green does not have those kind of numbers off him though. Doesn’t matter. He’s not letting him face it just because the way baseball is played now it’s all about matchups and matchups now are all about left verse left right verse left right verse right whatever it is and then he was on third time through and just the way it works it is right or wrong I’m not arguing that it’s just the way baseball is today very late on a fast ball and it’s one and two on the Seattle leadoff man now there’s one exception the guy on the mound AJ Hinch doesn’t care he’s like he might throw 12 pitches tonight. Why? Cuz he says he’s he’s better than anybody we have in the bullpen. Go get him, Terrick. Left, right, switch. Doesn’t matter. This is his guy. This is the guy who’s been there for him all year. You don’t have to tell me that. He’s going to let him ride. He’s in there. Will it hurt him? I don’t know. We’ll see. Little tapper foul. Still two and two on a Rose Arena as Scooville begins his third time through the order. He just struck out Crawford for his 12th of the night after he struck out 14 in the wildard series against Cleveland in game one to tie a Detroit playoff record. A one-run lead for Scooble Arum takes one in the dirt and it’s full. That being said, now 94 tosses for TKO, Adam Amin, Adam Wayright, AJ Pinski. The weight of every pitch continues to grow and grow, especially with only a one-run lead. Yeah. And Terrick Gub’s now into his 90s in pitches. Every pitch means so much. When will somebody get up? Rosarena pops it. Fouled. [Applause] Fast ball up and into Stardom. The fast ball up and in to start him. And then just a fast all over the plate. He’s trying to go in again and he missed. That’s what good hitters do with mistakes. Aros Arena pops it up back of second and the shorts stop. Bayz has it. Meanwhile, you’ve given potentially the best pitcher in all of baseball for two years in a row a lead in a winner take all situation. Now he’s sitting at 96 pitches. Tom Verduchi told you it’s been relatively rare to see go well beyond 100. It is Kyle Finnegan loosening up behind Scooble right now. 12 punch outs for Scooble. The one run allowed on the sack fly in the second B uh second inning. And now it is Cal Raleigh the tying run at the plate in the six. This is of this winner take all game with two down and the bases empty. Went after a high fast ball and still pumping out a 100. And I I think a little differently than than TK probably, but you know, after that swing, you’re pitching him like it’s 02 every pitch right here. Foul back and it’s nothing and two. And Dingler went out to talk with Scooble right before this at bat against Raleigh. But AJ, if he’s going to go two feet above the zone, you stay up there, right? Throw another one up there at 101. See if he can hit it. Or do you go change up way low? He’s so late though. I wouldn’t want to speed up his bat. Raleigh goes down swinging on a fast ball down the middle and TKO pure nitro to take down Raleigh and finish off the sixth. One of the best hitters in the game against one of the best pitchers in the game. And Scooble on top on that one. [Music] No pitcher in the history of a winner take all game in Major League history has struck out more batters than TK Scubble in the biggest moment of the year. They saved him for this game and he strikes out Cal Raleigh on 101 mph fast on his 99th pitch of the game. And it’s still 2-1 Detroit as we go to the late innings. Matt Brash finished off the sixth inning by striking out Spencer Torqulson. He’s got cold Keith at a ball and a strike to start the seventh. I know he’s one of those guys that talks to people during the game and stuff, but that he has the look of somebody who’s out of the game to me right there. Well, 13 punches, six innings, 99 pitches, and a huge adrenaline dump after he punched out Raleigh. That you saw him get excited. I don’t know if he’s done or not, but if he is, what a performance by both starting pitchers really. Kirby also. Two balls in two strikes on Keith. But now you get into the late innings. Carrie Carpenters two-run home run has put Detroit on top. Scooble has made it stand up through six. And still a long way to go here in game five. Keith fouls it. Still two and two. The last two strikeouts to Cal Riley were both 101 mph fast balls, but that last one 02. I think he knew he was getting to the end of his day and it was a challenge fastball right down the middle. Bratis strikes out Keith to start the seventh. Backto back Hayes to start the night for Matt Brash. Ending the six and starting this frame. Well, nasty slider here by Brash again. Tigers have struggled to hit sliders. But if he is if it is the end of the night for Scooble, he he retired 13 in a or 14 in a row. The last 14 13 of them were punches. Ridiculous. It’s the type of performance you hope for and perhaps expect from an ace. Sorry, I I take that back. 14 in a row, but he has 13 punches in the game. Not not in a not all total. Lifted out towards left. or Rosa Raina is over. He’s got it for out number two. And he shuffles it off to Julio Rodriguez as McKinstry is retired. Two down in the seventh. And now a quick word from Strauss. From the fields we farm to the fields we play, work wins the game. Strauss at Major League Baseball. Gear for any season. Brash still has a huge job to try to keep this game where it’s at. Julio Rodriguez is going to lead off the next inning for Seattle. Here’s Dingler. Well, we knew it was going to be this type of game. Two great starting pitchers on the mound and both of them delivered. George Kirby was excellent. Breaking stuff was nasty. Fastball location. It’s lived up to the billing. Kirby made zero mistakes. He gave up one double really to Jav Bayz. Other than that, did nothing. And Terrick Scubble gave up the one double to Josh Naylor. That was an emergency swing that he just fileleted down the left field line. This has been an exceptionally pitched game. Worthy of a winner take all game five here in the American League Division Series. Toronto awaits the winner in the American League Championship Series on Sunday night. fouled away and it’s two balls in two strikes. Brash with a chance at a 1, two, 37. Couple batters today at least I’ve seen Cal Rally giving fingers instead of doing uh the pitch count. Wonder if they’re having a hard time hearing it. Finnegan loosened up for Detroit. Brash floats one outside and it’s full on Dingler. 3-2 into center field. Coming on is Rodriguez and he will lead things off in the bottom of the seventh for Seattle. Brash does his job. Rodriguez Polarco Suarez the heart of the order for Seattle coming. It’s stretch time. Welcome back to the 2025 American League Division Series on Fox presented by Booking.com. A two to1 Detroit lead in the bottom of the seventh. Kyle Finnegan has come on for TKO and it’s Julio Rodriguez to lead things off for Seattle. This is Seattle’s chance. You guys talked about it. Scubble was incredible. One of the greatest strikeout performances in the history of playoff baseball. But he only goes six because Seattle muscled through a lot of those pitches. It’s up to Finnegan and the rest of the bullpen for Detroit. Rodriguez takes one off the plate. He’s ahead two and0. One of the things about when you face a guy like Terrick school and he comes out, doesn’t matter who it is, they’re not going to be as good and your your whole team takes a breath and says, “Okay, we got rid of him. We don’t care. It could be the best. It could be Mariano Rivera, Trevor Hobin, the greatest closer of all time. At least it’s not Terco.” Rodriguez out to center field. Meadows ranging back and he is there at the track in this pitcher friendly park for the out. Let’s go down to Tom Verduchi with more. Tercoal out of the game with 99 pitches. What an effort. He has never thrown more than 108 pitches in a major league game. And remember in game two he threw 97 pitches. The game was tied and he was gassed. Had nothing left. It had to come out. Carrick Scooville is a burning candle. There’s no regeneration. He gave AJ Hench everything he had, especially in that last epic at bat against Cal Roll 101 to finish him off. Here’s Palano switching over to the left side now against the righty finanel domination. That’s it. And you see how excited he is. I think he knew he was done. And AJ Hinch did say this. He’s one of those guys that’ll come in and say, “Look, I’m done.” and 99 pitches, 13 punch outs. Absolutely ridiculous by him. There’s a strike to Palanco. How about this note? By the way, Sarah Langs, first pitcher in postseason history with multiple 13 punch out games in one postseason. The only two others, Bob Gibson and Garrett Cole. That’s in a career. This is in one postseason because he punched out 14 against Cleveland. Don’t forget in the wild card route. That’s incredible. Palanco waits for a 1-1 from Finnegan. Kudos to the Mariners because if he’d have had more innings, he’d have kept striking people out, but they worked him. They worked his count up. He fouled off tough pitches. He got into good situations. He made pitches when he needed to. He had a lot of 3-2 counts today to not have any walks. Three and one on Palanco. Blanco follows it back and the count runs full. [Music] 20 ball four right there. I think there’s the left-hander Tyler Holton. That’s for Naylor. That That’s for Naylor. If Naylor comes up in this inning, that means they either scored a run or there’s somebody on base. He’s there for Josh Naylor. Bail pitch to Palano and he takes bowl four. The time run is aboard for Seattle. Fox will kill you. Bueno, you don’t want him walks. That that is the one thing. Make them hit it. You don’t want walks. It’s free base runners. That ends a streak of 15 straight. Mariners retired. They have their first base runner since the second inning. And Auane Suarez, who returned to Seattle this season at the trade deadline, represents the go-ahead run and took a home run hack and a splitter. nothing and one. [Applause] One interesting thing about these Tiger bullpen, they don’t have a swing and miss bullpen that they don’t get a ton of swing and miss. It’s soft contact splits and and so that that one difference. The Mariners, they have swing and miss guys coming out of their bullpen. The Tigers do not. Finnegan, the Detroit native, traded from Washington at the deadline. No swing from Suarez, the Venezuelan born slugger who started his career with the Detroit Tigers. Grew up a huge Miguel Cabrera fan and then got to play with him in Detroit. Do you dare throw a fast ball here? You just keep going split, split, split, split, split. 2-1 and he throws him a splitter in the zone for a strike. But now you’ve showed it to him a lot. At some point he’s going to have to reset the trap unless he’s going to get him to chase outside the zone. He cannot throw another split for a strike. Two-2. Suarez in the air. Right field pushing Carpenter back to the track and he’s got it. Back to first base goes Palano. A couple of deep fly balls from Finnegan deliveries. You saw the big sigh of relief from Finnegan. Two down. He just missed that. I mean that’s that’s center cut and and beat Suarez just because of all the splits he’s seen Carrie Carpenter on the track hoping wishing waiting and then having a reset. Here’s Josh Naylor. They’ll keep Finnegan and he’ll deal a strike to start off Naylor who scored the only Seattle run back in the second. He’s got the only extra base hit of the night. of the two Seattle hits tallied. That’s a great first pitch. Josh is so good up out over the plate down. He doesn’t swing often down there. Tapper foul. Nothing at two. You can see how the difference his aggressiveness at the top and the bottom right there. It just doesn’t look good out of the hand. It looks like it’s going to go low right here. Look, it’s kind of a one-handed almost defensive swing. When it’s down there, it’s like that. But when it’s up, out away from him, that’s the one he drives. When it’s up, out away from him, that’s the one he can hit to left like he did earlier. Two outs in the seventh. The O2 to Naylor and he stays alive. Another at bat where Josh Naylor continues to make it tough on a Detroit pitcher. I’m I’m surprised. Well, this is his at bats, but I’m surprised the Detroit outfield, especially Riley Green and left. We saw Naylor hit that ball down the left field line. They’re not a little bit deeper. The ball cannot get by you. Palano cannot score. You cannot give up a double here. If he hits it over your head, it’s got to be a home run. It cannot They have to be in no doubles. I And right now for me, Riley Green is too shallow. Yep. He’ll take a single. You’ll take a ball that falls in front of you because you got another it probably Meadows too. Another O2 to Naylor through the right side. A base hit. Palano will stop at second base as Carpenter comes up throwing in. And a tying run is in scoring position as Naylor has his second hit of the night. And the Mariners have life against the Detroit bullpen here in the seventh. And Garver, the right-hander who was scheduled up, will be pinch hit for. Wow. Almost got Palanco with the ball, but another great bat by Josh Naylor. And now the chess match begins. AJ Hench coming out for Finnegan. The lefty Dominic Canzone was ready to pinch hit for Mitch Garver. High drama. Holton coming on for Canzone in the seventh. [Music] Finnegan started the inning. Rodriguez flew out. Palano walk. Suarez flew out. Naylor with a single. Tomorrow night, another winner take all. Game five on the National League side. Cubs and Brewers in Milwaukee on TBS with Alex Faust and Ron Darling. Then on Sunday, the American League Championship Series gets underway on Fox between the Blue Jays and the winner of this game. And now more chess match action. Tyler Holton comes in because the lefty Dominic Kzone was announced as the pitch hitter. Then Seattle counters with Leo Reebas, the switch hitter who made his playoff debut in game two, but this will be the first at bat of his playoff career. And now the pitching coach Chris Federer for Detroit comes out to talk with the lefty Holton. And once the starter comes out, Wayneo, like you said, it gets so complicated. Look at all these moves. Look at all the pinch hitting. If you would have told Dan Wilson, Leo Revas is up with your season on the line or Mariners fan, they would have said, “Well, let’s see how it goes.” But here’s where we’re at. Because of the pinch hitters, because of the moves both these managers are making, it’s fascinating. [Applause] So here’s Reebas who hit his first two major league home runs in September including a walk-off tying run at second. Go ahead run at first and Reebas will take strike one. A 27year-old from Venezuela in fact turned 28 years old today. Typically good for a quality at bat. nine years in the minor leagues before debuting in the majors this year. And he lines one in left field. Base hit. Here comes Panco. Leo Rebos off the bench ties the game. Heat. Heat. First pitch swinging Robless bouncer to short picked up by Bayz. He’ll get the out at second to finish the inning. But Leo Rivas, who toiled through almost 700 minor league games for the opportunity to step up in the postseason with the biggest swing he’s ever taken in his 28 years on earth. Happy birthday, Revas. Tie game five. Off to the eighth we go in Seattle. [Music] Young Leo Rivas, the first time he ever swings the bat in a playoff game, delivers the tying run. And the emotion right back at it in the Pacific Northwest for these fans. And off to the eighth we go in this winner take all. Game five tied at two. And Parker Meadows will take a strike from Matt Brash who continues to work in relief for Seattle as their offense was able to crack through against the Detroit bullpen following TK Scubble’s six inning performance. Meadows will take ball one. It will be up to the bullpens now. Neither starter Kirby nor Scoo will factor into the decision tonight. This is this is game one all over again. This is game one all over again. But the walk at Weno. The walk is what scored. You got to make them, especially in the playoffs, you can’t walk guys and then give teams extra things. And my question for you is, if you bring Tyler Holton in, why don’t you bring Tyler Holton in to face Josh Naylor? Is that because you’re worried about Mitch Garver’s at bat if Naylor gets on against Holton? That had to be what it was. Where’s Herder against Josh Naylor? I I I know Naylor got a hit against Holton in game four, but if you want left on left, there it is. No, two and two on Meadows. AJ Hinch, the 12-year managerial veteran against Dan Wilson, the first full season as the manager for Seattle. Fouled by Meadows, still two and two. A fascinating matchup, fascinating pitching, fascinating decisions, and a two- two game here in the eighth. And a lot of tears from the Mariners fans so far. Game’s not even over. Meadows hits one on the ground to short for Crawford. Sidearm sling for the first down. No decision for either starter in this game. Trick the most strikeouts in a winner or take all game in Major League history. He and Kirby were excellent tonight. They they were both they were both ace type pitchers tonight. Their stuff was incredible, but they both showed up when their teams needed them in a win or take all season on the line. They both showed up in a giant way and competed their butts off on the field today. Both of them were great. Here’s Bayz against Brash. Ball one. Bayz hit the double in the sixth inning off of Kirby that pushed him out of the game. Brought Spire in to face Carpenter who hit the two-run home run. That in the moment gave Detroit the lead. Scoo finished off six innings and then a sigh of relief for Seattle when they saw the Detroit bullpen. They’re able to bust through to tie the game at two. Two and0 on Bayz. In the air, left center field over is Rodriguez. Back at the track and T-Mobile Park will hold off another hitter. A long fly ball for the second out. And Matt Brash has been outstanding out of the pen behind Spire. Well, you have you have to give the Mariners an advantage as Jav Bayas just missed this ball to center field because if you’re going bullpen for bullpen as Dan Wilson’s now coming out to bring in Munoz, their closer. But in the short term, you have to give the advantage to the Mariners cuz their bullpen over the course of year has just been better. What a job by Brash. Six up, six down. And back to the top of the Detroit order for Andre Munoz. [Music] Coming up after the game, stay tuned for the postgame show with Kevin, Alex, Poppy, and Derek on Fox presented by Strauss. And it has been a fabulous game five worthy drama in this contest. And now it’s Seenor Smoke, Andreas Munoz, who saved game two. and has reported 12 outs on 11 batters face. He got a double play to end game three. Carrie Carpenter hit the two-run home run off of Spire in the sixth facing righty. And Munoz, who’s got one of the best fast balls in the game, also has a ridiculous slider, which gets a 51% swing and miss rate. Carpenter hit three absolute rockets tonight. 105 107 and 105 the home run off the bat. Little number foul and it’s one and one. Are we sensing a theme yet from the Mariners were in the eighth and it has been slider slider from Kirby. Fired through the fast ball got hit for a homer but then Brash came in. Slider slider slider and Muno’s already slider slider. I think there’s something in the Tiger scouting board says they can’t hit sliders. I’m going tell you, he was pretty close to smashing that ball. The speed got him more than the break there. There’s a 1-1 in there for a strike on a slider. One and two Munoz to Carpenter in the dirt. Two and two. Clutch hits the last two years in the postseason from Carpenter. Big pitches from Munoz all season long. Two two delivery. Three and two. opponents at just 109 on Munoz’s slider this year. Ry Glber Torres waits on deck. Payoff pitch and Tapper up the line. Foulios the 26-year-old from Mexico. all-star each of the last two years, but his best season this year, a sub 175 RA. He’s tracking that slider pretty well. I I think he’s got to bust him with a heater right here. Let’s see if he becomes Senor Smoke. He goes back to the slider and Carpenter takes it for ball four. So, the go-ahead run is on base. We have a quick word from Capital One. With the Capital 1 Venture X card, you earn unlimited double miles on everything you buy and turn all of your purchases into extraordinary trips. Capital One, what’s in your wallet? Could just tell the takes, even the foul balls. His swing was He was really close on a couple of those. I would have loved to have seen a fast ball right there. 3-2. Instead, Carpenter earns the walk. Here’s Torres. Ball one on a slider. Fans in Seattle know Munoz for his 98 mph average fastball velocity, hence the nickname Senor Smoke. a name he shares with fellow Mexicanb born major league reliever, the late Aurelio Lopez, who pitched six scoreless innings in the playoffs for the 1984 Tigers on route to Detroit’s last World Series 41 years ago. Coincidentally, Detroit beat the Padres’s in that World Series. That was the team that Munoz signed with in 2015 and debuted for in Major League Baseball in 2019. Aelio Lopez, the late Lopez, pitched for four teams but got the nickname while he was in Detroit for that powerful fast ball that he threw. The symmetry and the connectivity between these two franchises and Munoz himself to Detroit. A lot of sliders again now to to Carbon. I understand they didn’t want him to be he’s hot. He’s already hit a homer. Slider slider slider. But Glaver, we’ve talked about he’s susceptible to the high fast ball. Not only sliders, but he’s also susceptible to high fast balls. His two strikeouts tonight, both on fast balls, including one swinging. And I just don’t like it’s a great pitch, but you you have a great fast ball. Also, one of the best. Go ahead, run it first. the two to Torres and there’s a slider for a swing and miss. Two and one. Just not going to give in. He He believes in that pitch. He mentioned the swing and miss, the chase percentage, all that. It’s one of the best pitches in baseball. He’s not going to give in. He’s just going to keep throwing that slider. It’s just such a big speed variance from his fast ball to that slider. I think it’s I think it’s more the speed than the break on it to me. Two balls in a strike on Torres. Three and one. You want You want Torres out here. I’m sorry. You don’t want to face Riley Green. Riley Green’s a great breaking ball hitter, especially from balls coming into him. If I’m Andre Munoz, you got to get you got to get Glaver out here. 3-1 pitch and he walks Torres to put the go-ahead run in scoring position and it will be Riley Green to come to the plate for Detroit with two outs in the eighth inning. We talked about it in all five of these games. Walks, right? Lead off walks, two out walks. Here’s backto-back two out walks to get to what many people consider the Tiger’s best hitter. And he’s good against breaking balls. He’s better against right-handed pitching. You rush him. He has he throws guy throws a 100. He had thrown a fast ball yet. And it was a slider that Gabe Spire threw in game four. A left-hander nonetheless that was left in the wheelhouse of Riley Green to launch into right field for the go-ahead Detroit home run in game four. [Applause] Munoz fixing up the pitchcom right now. Kind of fell down after he delivered that last pitch to Glabber Torres which drew the second consecutive walk and now meeting out there with the infield. Had a lot of meetings here. Well, yeah, this this is a good one right here. Let’s get under control. You can see his foot slip a little bit now. He He has a pretty big follow through towards the first base side and he will occasionally get off balance, but you can tell his foot he kind of lost his footing there. You’ve got to throw Riley Green a fast ball. [Applause] Very good down ball hitter. Very good breaking ball down hitter especially. Got to see some heaters at the top here. First pitch to Green is a fast ball inside. But when you haven’t thrown one in, it seems like 20 minutes. It hasn’t been 20 minutes, but two full batters, three mound visits, a pitch come issue, it it’s tough to throw that for a strike. Green pops it up back of third. Suarez out. He’s got it. And the inning is over. Still 22 two as Munoz gets out of it. [Music] 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 for your favorite postseason gear. Will Vest pitched two innings in game one into the 11th. Got the win. Closed game four. and he goes to work against JP Crawford in the eighth of a 2-2 ball game. Crawford takes ball one, the longest tenure Seattle Mariner after Dylan Moore was released earlier this year. Big cut of a fast ball. One and one. [Applause] [Applause] two and one. [Music] Now you see Logan Gilbert, the game three starter along with Edward Bazardo loosening up and JP Crawford who has a home run in this series is ahead of Vest. Three balls in a strike. There’s a strike three and two. Great pitch. 3-1 right there. That doesn’t look good. You don’t want to swing at that. 3-1. You’re looking for a meatball, something to drive. But that was a perfect pitcher’s pitch just above the knee. [Applause] Payoff foul away. It’s Crawford and then back to the top of the order. A Rose Arena and Cal Raleigh is looming. Julio Rodriguez if anybody reaches. [Applause] Breaks his bat, flips it towards shallow center and the short stop. Bayz is there for out number one. Best gets the first out in the bottom of the eighth inning. [Music] Rose [Applause] Arena 0 for three tonight. Just four for 21 in this postseason after a rough September despite a career year. [Applause] 30 years of age from Cuba. Very good strike breaking ball hitter in Randy Rose Arena. Now it’s inside. You know what I’m amazed by now. Way and used to say don’t let a guy beat you inside. Now these relievers come in just chucking balls inside to guys cuz you used to say it mean you the big part of the park. Not anymore. It is 3 and 0 on a Rose Arena with Raleigh on deck. [Applause] There’s a strike. [Applause] Will Vest who was drafted by Detroit but made his major league debut for Seattle as a rule five pick now in his fourth year back with the Tigers. Barros Arena fouls his sinker away to run the countful. A great job getting back in the count right there throwing great force away and then a good sinker working back into his hands right there. Could have very easily had that third pitch called a strike as well. [Applause] the payoff pitch and he got a piece of him. It would have been ball four anyway. The go-ahead run is on base and the moment that they have been waiting all year for. Cal Raleigh to the plate with a chance for the lead in the playoffs. ball. One inside. [Applause] breaks his bat as he flips that change up back to the screen. We need a new piece of lumber. That’s a nasty change up right there. See the movement on it. Starts middle of the plate. Just darts down and out. It’s right off that middle finger. Right off that seam with it. Good one seam action right there. Causes it to tumble more. [Music] This spot right here, AJ, you got to pitch him tough, don’t you? Yeah, but the guy on deck ain’t bad either. And Julio Rodriguez, that torpedo back Cal Raleigh swinging just exploded. Got to pitch him tough. He’s been aggressive all game. He’s trying to He’s chased outside the zone a lot. I just don’t love off speed right here to Cal Raleigh. I just think it gives him a chance to hook one out front and do what he’s done 61 times this year. I’d hit a home run. A 1-1 big cut and a slider. One and two. Now listen, Will Vest has gotten him. He’s over Cal Rley’s 0 for two with two punches off Will Vest in his career. So Will Vest knows that. Cal Raleigh knows that. But man, you got to be careful going down and into this guy. Take three shots right here to get him to chase something outside the zone. if if if I’m him. Runner at first, one out in the eighth. Raleigh out in front again of that slider. Goes down swinging and vest takes care of Raleigh. Two down. And here’s Julio Rodriguez. Rodriguez. You said careful down and in, but those were two very welllocated sliders down and in after that great change up away. He worked both corners. Nothing on the plate for him to hit. Pitch to Rodriguez. Fouled away. Nothing at one. It was Rodriguez who had the home run in game one. He had the game-winning RBI in game two, but since that hit, he’s 0 for his last 12 in this series. [Applause] Big cut on a fast ball. Nothing and two. See the movement. He continues to make great pitches. Exploit these hitters with that great movement he’s got to both sides. Rodriguez, who is just 24 years old from the Dominican Republic, who left his family at age 14 to go attend a baseball academy, signed eight years ago with Seattle, debuted three years ago, the rookie of the year, three-time all-star as a Rose Arena at first, goes down swinging on a slider. Vest comes up huge for Detroit and sends game five to the ninth. tied to two. Eric School 13 strikeouts. Jav Bayz got the Detroit offense going before Carpenter homered them in front. But Seattle, they believe to Leo Rivas on his birthday. His first playoff swing tying this game. The emotions apparent and deep in the Pacific Northwest with two franchises starving and toiling to try to make it back to the World Series. Seattle’s never been there. We go to the ninth in game five. Tied at two. Andre Munoz facing the middle of the Detroit order. It’s Spencer Tolson who has been Detroit’s best late game hitter over the last two months. Munoz has just fallen off so bad now. He always follows through to the first base side, but he’s trying to spin these sliders so hard. It actually has a the opposite effect when you lose your front side like that. You can’t throw it hard with your front side. You got to throw it with your backside. There is a slider that gets a swing and miss from Torlson. At what point do you just say I got to throw some heaters to somebody? I know the scouting report must say slider, slider, slider, but wow. The 2-1 slider fouled away. He gets away with one there. And Torlson has improved greatly on his breaking ball discipline and also ability to hit him from a year ago. Two two pitch. He got him with a slider. One down here in the ninth. [Applause] came back from down 20 in the count to Fan Torqulson. 10 away. Now Cold Keith grounded out, has been hit by a pitch, was caught stealing once he reached base in the fourth inning by Cal Raleigh and then struck out in the seventh. First pitch swinging, line to short, caught by Crawford. Two down. [Applause] Now it’s Zach McKinstry. Gilbert seems like he’s ready if need be. Zach McKinstry take show me heater right there. Yep. Comes back with a slider over the plate. One and one. Suarez playing a little bit in at third base. McKinstry has laid down a couple of bunts in the postseason. He swings in a fast ball. It’s one and two. That’s the one sometimes you just try to overthrow. You try to throw it so hard you overthrow it and it backs up on you. Just keep those good mechanics and drive it. Two two pitch. He struck him out. Is there a hero waiting in the bottom of the ninth in the Emerald City 22 game in game five? Your team, your players, your postseason. Follow all the postseason action. Download the MLB app, the number one app for live baseball. Here we go. Bottom of the ninth in Seattle. Game five. A chance for Seattle to win this game with a run. Will vest into his second inning of relief. Trying to send this game to extra innings, mirroring what he did in game one. He will face the middle of the Seattle order, which combined for 95 home runs during the regular campaign. Palano Suarez and Naylor. The dangerous thing right here for Will, he just had two huge strikeouts of Cal Rally and Julio Rodriguez back to back. Those are the big guys. You don’t want to let up right here on this next at bat. You have to keep pitching right here and pitch these guys the same way. It’ll be Palano, the switch hitter batting lefty against Best to start the bottom of the ninth. This what you dream about as a kid right here. Bottom of the ninth. Chance to move on in the playoffs. Who will be the hero? First pitch to Palano is in there for strike one. Right down the middle. A center cut. Palano held off. Palanco towards right center field. Here comes Meadows. He’s got it. One down. If the Tigers get through this, this is when you start looking at, okay, are we getting starters? Who we going to get here to try to figure out who to get out where? Because you’ve used your main two late inning guys in Finnegan and Vest. So then you’re like, Flity, Kanley, Kar Montero, who do you go to if you’re AJ Hinch? And the same kind of for the Mariners with Logan Gilbert a starter up. Munoz has already been into his second inning. Where do you go? There’s Suarez. Mos did his job. Suarez takes a strike. Fouled back. One and two. Fast ball down the pipe. That’s two batters in a row where he’s thrown some center cut fast balls. One last at bat and now two this at bat. Two fast balls in the middle of the plate to Gino Suarez. Bold strategy. Cotton. And see if it works for him as he fouls one into the netting. Still one and two. Best a one-time Mariner against Suarez. The one-time Tiger. One-two pitch. Just off the plate. Tough take. It’s two and two. Suarez helped break the playoff drought in 2022 for Seattle. Came over from Arizona at the deadline for moments like this. And he goes around with a fast ball. Two up and two down here in the ninth. [Applause] the first baseman. And here’s Josh Naylor after Suarez goes down just to heat her up, right? Bueno didn’t do a whole lot and Suarez out in front. Can’t really lay off of it and now just continues to go. Who’s going to be the hero? I’ll keep saying it. Naylor. No. Takes one upstairs. Ball one. the 28-year-old from Missaga, Ontario. If Seattle wins this game, he’ll play back near his home city on Sunday night. Fouls went away. It’s one and one. [Applause] It’s hard when you get into these games against these late inning relievers to not want to try to be the hero and go up there and make one big swing, but so many times it’s the teams that put something together. Throw a little double, throw a little single. Naylor, no swing. He held back. He’s ahead. the 2-1. Naylor ropes one into right field. A base hit. Another three hit game in this series for Naylor. And the game-winning run is at first for Seattle. And here comes Rebos. And it’s AJ Hinch coming out. So often times you see the manager come out to make the pitching change. Hinch is going out there right now to talk to the infield as they prepare for this at bat against Leo Rivas who came up in the seventh and tied this game at two apiece. [Music] The first swing in a playoff game he ever took on his birthday. What a present. Brought Palanco home to make it 22. He He can’t do it again, can he? On his birthday. His 28th birthday. His birthday today. And I think that meeting with AJ Hench was also, hey, Josh Neer might try and steal here because remember he did steal third. It was a huge play earlier. Focus on the hitter. We need the hitter out. Revas takes a strike. [Applause] There’s a check on Naylor. Wasn’t too far off the bag. Although he almost fell off the bag that time. [Applause] The pitch swing and a miss and it’s nothing and two. Will Vest who came on in the eighth struck out Raleigh and Rodriguez to close the frame. Going to send this game to the 10th. Rebas trying to keep the line moving. [Applause] Tension and apprehension here in this winner take all game five. Two strike pitch to Revas. Called strike three. Will Vest freezes Revas. stood there like the house by the side of the road and watched that one go by. And game five is heading to extra innings with a winner to the ALCS. Let’s go back 30 years, game five, Yankees Mariners. And Randy Johnson comes in the ninth inning, throws three innings in relief, punches out six, and that set the stage for the dramatic walk-off double hit by Edgar Martinez in the 11th inning. There have been a lot of great moments in postseason history in Seattle. That’s the one they still remember. They’re seeking a new memory tonight. The Tigers with some high drama looking for some fireworks of their own against the game three starter Logan Gilbert. Pitched on Tuesday, six excellent innings. Face Dylan Dingler to lead things off in extra innings. Tied at two, game five winner to the American League Championship Series. And Gilbert pours in a strike and another slider. This is first ever relief appearance in the major leagues. which is crazy. But what does he come out doing? He’s following the scouting report. Leno, throw sliders. They’ve seen a few today, huh? Yep. Upstairs. And it’s one and one. 148 career major league appearances, counting his two outings in the playoffs. The first time he’s ever pitched out of the bullpen in a major league game. [Applause] Tap foul and it’s one and two. I really like this move. Bring in one of your best arms, one of your best competitors. His slider the other day, if we’re going to see sliders, his slider the other day was unhitable. Gilbert home with a one-two breaking ball lifted to right center. Rodriguez is over along near the track. He’s got it for round number one. What a night it has been. Derek Scoville went six, struck out 13, just allowed that one run on the Mitch Garver RBI sack fly. Kirby was just as good. Got pulled after gave up uh he gave up a Bayz double. Carpenter came up against Spire, hit the two-run go-ahead home run in the sixth and then Leo Rivas came on in the seventh and tied this game at two apiece. Here’s Parker Meadows. [Applause] No. Ball upstairs. Meadows is 0 for three tonight and just four for 27 in the postseason. Can nobody sit on a slider. It’s it I mean it’s not that easy. I know. But it’s just like slider slider slider slider. At least it’s a slider. When Tommy Canley comes in the game, you know, you’re getting a change up. No one can hit. People have a hard time hitting that. It’s it’s just slider sl for for these Tiger hitters. It don’t they threw made one mistake with a fast ball and went for a homer. Here comes a fast ball up here. A one-1 pitch to Meadows. Little Ter on a split that time and it’s one and two. They’re not wasting time with that anymore. They’ve given up on that. I I think you got to go fast ball up here. I think it’s a that’s the right pitch. One two delivery. Got him. Like I said, splitter away. Well, they they didn’t hit the split in game in game three in Logan Gilbert. They’re not doesn’t look like they’re going to start anytime soon. And this is one of the best pitches in baseball. The speed, the location, the non-spin, it’s crazy. Yeah, we’ve seen some major outlier pitchers pitches today. That is certainly one of the best in all the game right there. Logan Gilbert split. Here’s Bayz. Swings away. Sends one out towards left center and it’s Rodriguez to finish off a one, two, three. Top of the 10th. to the bottom of the 10th inning in game five. Tied at two. Well, that redeye flight to Charlotte’s waiting. It can wait as long as it wants to, as long as this game wants it, too. Cowboys and Panthers at 1 Eastern, Rams, Ravens. You’ll see Titans and Raiders. Check your local listings for the game in your area. Week six of NFL action on Sunday on Fox here in Seattle. You can see Lumen Field just down the street in Sodto south of downtown. Melton is on. First pitch swinging a slice down the right field line from Robas into the corner. Victor Robless has the winning run in scoring position for Seattle. [Applause] This is what I was mentioning the last inning. Sometimes it’s it’s the small ball. It’s just moving runner. It’s taking small swings. He didn’t try to do too much right there. Just use the right side of the field. That’s how rally start. And so many times you see extra inning games end that way. Bunt shown by JP Crawford. Pulls it back on a fast ball trying to move Robless who had just his second hit of this series a moment ago. The double to get into scoring position trying to move him over to third. Weird defense though. First pitch. Bayz was doing a wheel play and nobody else charged. It was it was a strange defense because JP Crawford showed it so late and now here he is 2 and 0. You take the bun off. He didn’t he didn’t have it on one and0. Second most walk-off hits in Seattle history. Seven of them for Crawford. Takes a cut. Was trying to end this series. I’m bunning. I’m sorry. JP Crawford can bunt. I’m bunning. I got to get I got to get Ro to third with less than two outs and give Rosena and those guys a chance. He had six sacrifices to lead the Mariners this year. Tough to pun off of a hoppy heater at the top though. Melton deals. Crawford swings through a fast ball. Two and two. It’s also tough to hit it. Yeah, but I’ll take my chances. I I’m sorry. I know Bunning is not in vogue anymore in the game, but you got a chance to advance and you got a chance to put the guy on third with two fast guys. I’m doing it. It’s too late now though with two strikes. Melton, who pitched three scoreless innings in game four out of the pen, started game one here. The 2-2. Crawford slices it. Foul. That’s a great pitch by Melton right there. He chased two at the top already. Just took him a little bit higher. Now the question is, do you go underneath middle of the plate underneath or do you go back up top? Two-2 pitch popped up left side. Green chasing McKinstry out and it’s going to fall foul and JP Crawford is given new life. [Applause] As we watch this pop up, I’m still alive by Pearl Jams. Rolling right now. Bradley Green had a long way to go for there. He couldn’t get it. Kinry almost made a really good play. The longest tenure Seattle Mariner. JP Crawford breaks his bat, flares it to second, and it’s going to be caught by Torres for the first out. Robles on the bag at second. And now back to the top of the Seattle order. [Music] That’s a huge huge out without allowing that runner to get to third base right there. You would have bunn it, AJ. 100%. Uh Jamie Crawford has done it. It’s not like you’re asking Cal Raleigh to bunt. You’re asking a guy that has bunted a ton in his career to get him to third so Randy doesn’t have to get a hit. Rose Arena takes ball one. So many big postseason moments in a Rosena’s career. Trying to come up with one more to send Seattle to the LCS. Winning run at second in Robas. Check swing foul. It’s one and one. This kid Troy Melton, he’s got a great arm. Yep. He’s going to be a star. Seven strong innings in this series. The rookie, the biggest pitches of his life right now. The 1-1 foul back by Aros Arena. And he pitched two days ago, multiple innings. And here he is, season on the line, still pumping a hundred up there. They want him to be a starter. Throw him on scoo. Woohoo. It’s a good one-two punch. Here’s a one-two pitch upstairs to even the count. Made his major league debut on July the 23rd this year. Just 24 years of age. A 30-year-old Rose Arena trying to end this here. Two two pitch. Popped up foul. What a battle here. Some power on the mound. Some power at the plates. [Applause] [Applause] Jaws got a piece on a splitter. A nasty one at that. And A Rose Arena still alive. I don’t know how you make contact with that right there. That is incredible. After those good high heaters to make contact with a 91 mph disgusting splitter. It was high enough. That’s how you make contact. That ball’s 6 in lower. He’s punched. Got him on the splitter that time. And there are two down. And what do you know? Cal Raleigh’s coming up. Are they going to intentionally walk? You have to, right? No way. They will intentionally walk Cal Raleigh and that will bring up Julio Rodriguez [Applause] to try to win this game. [Applause] Remember that Rodriguez homered off of Melton in game one to get the scoring started. It’s the right move. It’s the right move. It is. But in the back of your mind, Weno, you just remember that homer and how center field. Rodriguez takes a cut. That a fast ball. It came back in, but it was down. That’s the difference. Down. Down and in. [Applause] Rodriguez chops one towards short charging Bayz. He’s got it. Throw to first is in time. And the rookie Melton comes out and forces this game to the 11th inning in game five. [Music] Top of the 11th, top of the Detroit order duo up against Logan Gilbert after an excellent defensive play by Jav Bayas. Right off the bat, this big high chopper, man, if he doesn’t time that just right, that’s going to take a really funky hop top spinning on him. He timed this just right. And in the biggest moments, Javi Lope Jav Lopez Jav Bayz, his heart settles. He has He is so calm in the biggest moments. He’s been there. He’s done that. That was an incredible play. Here’s one of the heroes of the postseason for the Tigers. Carrie Carpenter against Logan Gilbert. and a strike on a slider. You know, the longest baseball game I thought I’d get to watch today would be my son’s game, UAB versus Georgia Tech. It went 12 innings, but we’re catching it here in the ALDS game five. Watch out, Austin. Here’s the 01 to Carpenter. Holds back and it’s one and one. They just will not throw fast balls. They They throw Carpenter like one fast ball all day and he hit it for a homer. Other than that, he’s seen slider, split, slider, split. And there’s Melton just chilling. I love that. What a job he did in the 10th. Carpenter, Torres, and Green up against Logan Gilbert, the excellent Seattle starter. That’s off the mound and into right field. a base hit. Carpenter, the go-ahead runner is on base with Torres coming up. Tom Verduchi, you’re down to the field. You can add. Yeah, just the appreciation of Troy Melton. Remember, he started this year at Double A Erie in front of 2,000 fans on a 48°ree night. And here he is. Double elimination game, extra innings. Very cool. still calm in the dugout as Detroit’s offense tries to take a lead. Gilbert to Torres fouled away. Carrie Carpenter, four hits tonight. Four hits in an elimination game and he reached base the fifth time when he walked. He’s had five unbelievable at bats in this game tonight. He had five hits the entire postseason until his four tonight. Tapper foul and it’s nothing and two. Good splitter from Gilbert to get Torres to weakly make contact. Kar Montero loosening up now. He saved game one and then pitched two and a third strong in game three. Glaver Torres takes one and that gets away from Raleigh. onto second base and into scoring position goes Carrie Carpenter. A rare thing to see one getaway from Raleigh that was delivered like that. It is a pass ball for the first time all year against Cal Raleigh. Wow. And that was the split by Gilbert that he’s we’ve talked about how great he’s been on it. That’s like a knuckle ball. You never know where it’s going to go. And the fact Wow. You see crazy things in the playoffs. Torres lifts it out towards right. Rollless is over. He’s got it. Carpenter will not move from second. There’s the first out of the 11th inning as that ball goes flying to Suarez at third. Well, Glaver tried. Glaver tried. You got to walk Riley Green here. I feel like you just you have to take your chances with Torlton. They might not, but yeah, they’re putting him on. [Music] Glaver tried Torres tried to get the runner over. I give him a lot of credit right there. He tried to shoot the ball to right to get Carpenter to third with one out. But now this is the 100% the right move. You take your chances with Turkelson, you set up the double play [Applause] with Spencer Tolson. Steady Eddie as AJ Hinch calls him. His two-run double tied game two. Had a two-run double in the ninth of game three to give some life to the lifeless Detroit offense. He’s been one of their best late inninning hitters the last two months. First pitch swinging and a foul. Remember he had the big hit in game two that down the right field line to drive into and tie that game. So he’s been up in some big situations. I was just thinking about what Riley Green looked like on Logan Gilbert’s split the other day. Couple of punch outs, but I hear you. Waved on and missed on the splitter. Nothing at two. It doesn’t matter. You got This is the right move. I I get it. That was a few nights ago. It’s a different situation. You got to take your chances here with Torqulson. And then if he gets him out, then you got to face Cole Keith and take your chances there. Can’t let the best hitter on a team. Beat it. O2 pitch in the dirt. That’s smothered by Raleigh that time. I love catchers. They work so hard. It’s the 10 It’s 11th inning and he’s got this guy throws a knuckle splitting ball and he’s out there. Yes, he missed one. Okay, but he blocked so many over the course of his season. It’s incredible. And he hit 60 homers. Well, there’s another splitter. It’s two and two. That’s a great look by Torlson right there, man. He tracked that all the way in. You still not going high heat right here? No, I caught a guy Jose Contrus that threw the split like Logan Gilbert. It was like a knuckle ball. It’s one of the hardest things in the world to do. But no, I I I don’t think I don’t think you give Togos a chance. You you either throw sliders or splits and make him chase one. Two- two pitch. Torqulson bounces one foul. [Applause] I’m just going off the scouting report from today. Okay. Slider, slider, slider, slider, splitter, splitter, from Logan Gilbert. It’s been a little more split. I think you could rush him up, but they tried that. Now remember they tried that in game two and he shot the ball down the right field line after seeing a million. So that’s also in the back of Cal Rleyy’s head. Torlson uses time here. Couple of scary foul balls though on those off speed pitches so far. And the way he tracked that last split. I think he’s so slowed down just called for a fast ball. And if you do throw it to your point needs to be middle towards the inside part, not away so he can shoot it. Two on, one out. The two- two pitch to Torlson is golfed in the air to left. A Rosarena coming in. Two down. They ain’t getting B with a fast ball. They’re not. They’re just not. They again, they’ve thrown one fast ball for a mistake and it got hit out of the park. Everything else has been sliders and splits and sliders and splits. I know the postseason is about spin. This is this is an extreme version of it. Oh, this postseason game has lived up to the winner take all billing. What a privilege it is to be here tonight. Bottom of the hour here in Seattle. A 22 game five. Two outs, two on for the Tigers in the 11th. Gilbert his first ever professional relief appearance. He made 30 appearances in the minor leagues on route to Seattle. All 30 of them were starts. He has not pitched out of the bullpen since college and he’s doing it tonight in the biggest game of the season. [Applause] There is backup in the Seattle pen. Edward Bazardo loosening up. He’s pitched in all four games of this series. They’ll be ready behind Gilbert. Adam Amin, AJ Persinski, Adam Wayright, Tom Verduchi, the wonderful women and men of our Fox Sports crew led by Erin Stokov, directors Matt Gangle and Mitch Rian. And here’s Colt Keith. Missed the last two plus weeks of the season with an injury. Did not play in the Wildard series. Go ahead run in scoring position. Keith waves and misses in a slider. Drops it in for strike two. whatever it takes in the playoffs. Carpenter at second. Green at first and the O2 down and away. You call that a rally shoe hat? That’s That was one shoe hat. Hat shoe. Now shoe. But he’s doing it for the wrong team unless he’s a Tiger fan, right? You assume he might be, right? Can’t make any That’s a strikeout shoe hat. Maybe. Let’s see what happens on a one-two pitch. Got him with a strike out on the splitter. to the bottom of the 11th in game five. Will history repeat itself 30 years later? Sometimes the symmetry of baseball rears its head at various moments throughout history. 30 years ago in the 11th inning, Edgar Martinez just known as the double. There have been 16 walk-offs in winner take all games in playoff history. The only one in the American League Division series scored Joey Cora now Detroit’s third base coach to tie the game and Ken Griffy Jr. to win the game. Cora looks on as the Mariners come to bat against Kar Montero and it’s Jorge Palano and he goes around for strike one. And I know Joey Cora remembers that cuz I’ve talked to him about it. He was he was a coach of mine for a long time. Kater Montero AJ Hinch loves. He thinks this guy’s got a chance to be really really good for him. And he got the save already and now he’s in for the chance. He’s got to get three outs and keep his team in it to hit again. Nasty knuckle curve comes back over the plate to freeze Palanco. Nothing at two. Excellent job by Melton. Now it’s Monttero. Blanco takes ball one. Excellent job by all all the bullpens. Bullpen’s been outstanding. The one been an amazingly pitched game. Yes, the one run Finnegan was a walk. Other than that, the Seattle bullpen has been incredible. The Detroit bullpen has been great. Terco is great. Can’t ask for anything more in a in a clinching game for both teams. Palano sends one out towards right center. Meadows is over. He calls off the right fielder Carpenter for out number one. Montero has recorded 11 outs in this series. trying to get two more to send this game to the 12th. Yuaneo Suarez [Applause] takes a home run cut and misses on a sinker. [Applause] No, even had a ball in a strike. Even the players can’t watch the 1-1. Two and one. So much pressure on every pitch. These fans have not sat down for multiple innings now. They’re just waiting on someone to be that Edgar Martinez type hero for Seattle. If you’re rooting for them, so many big games pitched by the Tigers over the last several playoff appearances. The Verlanders, the Porcel, the Fisters, the Sherzers. Going back to the last time they made the league championship series. Two starving franchises. The pitch popped up. It’ll be the second baseman Torres to squeeze out number two. Such a great pitch right there. Einho Suarez loves to get extended and he took that away from him. He started down the middle and just worked that sinker right back into the inner third right there where he just can’t get the barrel to it. That’s a big time pitch in a hitter’s count right there. Josh Naylor, who’s had a great last two games. Three hits in game four, three hits tonight, including a double, a stolen base, and a run scored in the second inning. You got to be careful here. If you’re Montto, I can’t I got to make Louis Rivos on deck beat me. I can’t I I I I I I got to make him I got to make Revas beat me. I can’t have Josh Naylor beat me right here. It’s But you hate two out walks. I’m fine with it in this situation. I’m sorry. I I I I I I just can’t have I can’t have Naylor beat me. Going to put your best base dealer on first. It’s fine. I’ll take my chances. I’m I’m sorry. I just can’t have him beat me. Two and he throws a ch It was a change up though. But that was every pitch makes Adam Wright’s shoulders tighten up, especially ones that look like they’re very, very tantalizing. Both sides, we’ve just we’ve seen so many pitches that have caught some of the heart of the plate there. That was well changed. What a game. The two-1. Naylor taps it. Foul ball. Two and two. Did they have him challenge him with the heater? It’s smart. You make him get himself out because again, Leo Rivas on deck. I I know he got the big hit earlier. He’s got to beat me. Josh Naylor’s hit 20 homers. He’s gotten multiple huge hits in his career. Leo Rivas, he doesn’t have the same resume. And that’s not a knock on him. It just is what it is. He does today. He does today. Rivas’s second career playoff game for Josh Naylor. His 24th. I don’t think these fans have sat down the entire game. Doesn’t feel like it. The atmosphere in Detroit and Seattle outstanding and a series to match. Two outs in the 11th. Two- two game. The two- two pitch to Naylor down the right field line. Hook foul. [Music] Naylor in the LCS last year after beating Detroit with Cleveland. Monttero, the Venezuelan native, talking with Torres, settling him down here in this big moment. The longer this game goes, you know who wins besides whoever wins? The Toronto Blue Jays. They’re watching both of these teams empty the bullpen right now and use up all their resources. They’re watching that and loving it. They want them to go to 20 innings. Sure. Toronto awaits on Sunday night. The Ontario native Naylor awaits a two- two pitch. breaking ball. Lays off the curve. He’s going to throw him another one. He just You just He can’t beat you. He No matter what happens right here, Josh Naylor, this has got to be a two- strike 02 pitch that he just has to reach for. He does. Grounds it to Bayz down to a knee. And Monttero comes on and retires the side. How about a dozen in game five? To the 12th we go. They still believe here in Seattle, but the tension is high. I imagine it’s the same out in Michigan right now, too. What a night. What a series. What a game. What drama, what emotion, what frustration, maybe some elation waiting for one of these two teams in the 12th. Our game summary. Scooble outstanding. Kirby excellent. Carpenter the clutch home run. and Reebus the game tying hit all the way back in the seventh. Welcome you to the broadcast booth. Adam and the World Series champions Adam Wayright, AJ Pzinski, Tom Verduchi, whatever strategy game, whatever. This has been amazing. We are so privileged to be here tonight. The shots we just showed are the same as Adam Wayright every time a pitcher throws one anywhere close to anybody. Zack McKinstry leads it off against Logan Gilbert. His third inning of relief and ball one upstairs. I think what’s just been so impressive is pitchers continue to step up and make their biggest pitches when they need to in the biggest spots. Behind of the count, ahead of the count. I mean, they have just they have stepped up. Everybody that’s come in this game has stepped up and made big time pitches in big time situations. 10 strike one. Bueno, you made a great point in that last inning. Toronto loves this, right? No matter who ends up winning this game. A lot of pitchers used tonight. Bazardo is ready to go. He’s been hot for a couple of innings now. The one-1 and two from Gilbert. Well, Bazardo’s thrown in all four games. So, if he gets in, this will be his fifth game in, you know, fifth time in five games. I And let’s not forget Jav Bay has homered off him after seeing him for the fourth time. So, Logan Gilbert’s their best option. And Dan Wilson believes even though it’s his third inning of relief. Tapper to the right side. Gilbert’s got a long run now. He’s going to go to the bag. Naylor tried to deflect the ball to the running pitcher and it ends up being an infield single for Zack McKinstry. And the go-ahead run is on base in the 12 for Detroit. Naylor tried to pull the trick Scubble and do the football snap between his leg. Long snap it behind him. But no, as soon as this ball was hit because of McKinstry speed, it was in no man’s land. It was almost a perfect bunt. As soon as this ball’s hit, watch McKenzry. He smells it. He smells that knock. Nailer’s like, I don’t have anything to do. And he’s lucky actually that he didn’t get that ball by Gilbert. Little Burley special right there. I’ve seen Burley actually flip it properly, though. As soon as that ball gets past the pitcher, he’s safe. Raleigh’s going to go in. Check with Gilbert as Dylan Dingler will climb in having already hit a home run in an elimination game this postseason [Applause] and the entire infield will get ready to chat. Dingler, the Guardians fan growing up, loved Kenny Loftton, [Applause] a big fan of his coming up. ended up beating the team he grew up rooting for in that wild card series. A very strong defensive season and he was the best hitter on the road for Detroit this year. We’ll get a look at Gilbert again. Gilbert passed 30 pitches in his third inning of relief. Dingler just three for 28 though in the postseason. He had an RBI double in game four of this series. Takes up an in took over as Detroit’s top catcher this year. taps one foul. It’s one and one. Well, this is Logan Gilbert’s side day, so he would typically be throwing on this day anyways. Now, he wouldn’t be throwing 33 pitches in this high energy moment right here. So, he’s going to be a little bit more sore than than side day, but this is an acceptable assignment from him. I guarantee you. 1-1 on the ground left side and through. A base hit puts McKinstry in scoring position. Dingler comes up with a knock and still nobody out here in the 12 for Detroit. But they got to bunt. I’m sorry. You got to bunt. Meadows has done almost nothing in this series, but you got to bunt and make Jav Bayz, the veteran guy, have a shot. So, here comes Dan Wilson. Bazardo’s been ready for a while and he’s going to come in. Meadows is due a tie game in the 12th. All is baseball’s global youth initiative to highlight the fun and accessible ways to play the great game. To learn more, including how to find a league near you, go to playball.org and follow Playball on X, Facebook, and Instagram. For the fifth time in seven days in this series, Edward Bazardo, who had never appeared in a postseason game until last week, is going to do it again with two on and nobody out. And Meadows coming up. I’m all in on a bunt here. Now, the only way you don’t bunt, it looks like they’re set up for the wheel play of the Mariners. If they charge and they run the wheel play, you draw it back and you take a whack out of your slash. But shows bunt pushes it up the third baseline. Foul. AJ, what you’re talking about is called the old butcher boy play. Yes, the old slash. But he didn’t do it right there. And and Meadows should be able to bunt. He’s he’s bunted in his career. He’s a fast guy. He’s a center fielder. If they run it again, though, I I I cannot believe Well, they’re going to still want him to bunt cuz they want the the runner there. McKinstry’s fast at second, so they have a chance, but they’re set up again for the same thing. This ball has to be bunted to the third baseman. Cal Raleigh is changing the signs right now because they they ran the wheel play the first. A lot of teams will run it one play, one pitch, and then take it off the second pitch because of the chance of a slash or a butcher boy. Meadows got a sacrifice in game three while Gilbert was on the mound. Now it’s Bizardo on the hill with runners at first and second and nobody out. A little move back towards second base. Naylor from first had come all the way down about halfway towards home plate. Suarez stayed a little bit closer to the third base bag. Meadows shows it, pushes it. It is grabbed by Bazardo. The second base is covering and Palano holds on for the first out. But it’s a successful sacrifice for Parker Meadows, putting McKinstry and Dingler both in scoring position. He bunts this towards the pitcher, but he deadens it perfectly. It’s a great bunt. It’s a great bunt. And Bazardo has no play butt. First, he almost throws that away. And now we get the matchup. Five games in a row, Jav Bayz has seen Bazardo. He swings and fouls one back and he homered off of him. A two-run shot in game four in the sixth inning. They hit it off a slider. Hisardo challenge him with the first pitch heater. So maybe they’re thinking something different. Man, we’ve thrown Jav Bayz a million sliders in this series. Bayz breaks his bat. Hit to third. Throw home by Suarez. Tag is applied. Two down. [Applause] Bazardo with a big pitch and Suarez with a calm play. Yet again, another great sinking fastball just running right into the hands again. Another another hitter that loves to get extended in Jav. just got him to jam job a little. Saw it off grounded to third. Now, do you walk Carrie Carpenter? You walk Gary Carpenter. I know first base isn’t open. He’s got four hits. He’s reached base five times. Do you walk him and take your chances with Glaver Torres or you just hope the odds are in your favor? I would say walk him, but I watched that Dodger game yesterday and both times they did that, it didn’t work out later on. There’s just no place to put him. I think you pitch him really, really, really tough right here. See if you’ll chase something. If you go two 0, you put him on. No, if you go two, you try to punch him. Ah, they put him on. Don’t even mess around. They’re not going to mess around with him. It’s an intentional walk that’ll load the bases. Hard to argue. And it’s going to be up to Glaver Torres. Carpenter on base all six times tonight. Torres just once in five trips with a walk in the eighth against Munoz. Bases loaded, two outs, tied at two in game five. And a slider for a strike. Torres takes outside. a former Yankee an all-star with Detroit this year. Glabber Torres waits and fouls it away and it’s one and two from Bazardo with the bases loaded here in the 12th. [Applause] Excellent [Music] [Applause] with the bases loaded. Glabber Torres this season playing in his 53rd career playoff game. He’s been on the biggest stages. Bazardo the first time in his career pitching like this. Torres out to right. Robless has it to the bottom of the 12th. We go. Suarez made a huge defensive play. They cut down McKinstry and Bazardo and Suarez helped get out of the bases loaded jam. Five times pitching in the last seven days in his first ever playoff series and Bazardo gets them out of the bases loaded jam and sets it up for the bottom of the Seattle order. Reboss tied the game all the way back in the seventh. Monttero pours in a strike to start as he begins his second inning of relief. Couple things. One, how many times as we see the the pitchers that the Tigers have used, School Bull, Finnegan, Holton Vest, Melton Monto, they’ve all they’ve all been great. How many times, Wayne, do you see a team that has all the chances, doesn’t score, the other team comes back and scores. Momentum swings. And what a better feeling it is to be the Mariners in a tie game cuz you know if you don’t score, you get another chance. If you’re the Tigers, you’re standing out there going, “We might not get up again.” Detroit has left nine on base, five in the last two innings in the 11th and 12th. Nothing and two on Leo Rivas. Lee’s off a tough curve. They had maybe their best base runner on third base. There just wasn’t a whole lot of places that he could give up contact right there without him scoring. That was Bazardo. Just that was an incredible job coming in in that tough situation. Rivas follows it back. [Music] Montero 123 11-et [Applause] pitch. No. Three and two as Revas has worked back into the count full. Robless awaits. Then Crawford payoff pitch to Leo Rivas. Off. Wow. Laid off and the winning run is aboard to start the bottom of the 12th. putting it back. Incredible [Applause] to come off the bench, tie the game, and then now draw a walk. How many times have we said it? Lead off walks. Revas gets one here. Now it’s Robless. Toss the first. That ball gets away. Revas is headed to second base. And the winning one is in scoring position for Seattle. Montero tried to catch him off guard and hit Revas right in the backside. And that’s why he was grimacing at second base. Bun shown by Robless. And that comes inside. Did it hit the bat? They’re going to tag Robless. And foul ball is the call. It’s not foul. It can’t be foul. And if it hit his hand, it should be an out. Question is, did he attempt the bunt? Both managers are going to come out. Hinch is going to say that if he if it hit the hand, then it’s got to be a fair ball. And then great play by Dingler running out there and tagging him. If it hits the bat and then him though and then bounces into fair territory, it’s not a fair foul. But I don’t think it did that. I think it just hit his hand. I wonder if that’s what they called though. Was called a hit by pitch. It was called a hit by challenge this. And AJ Hinch is busting out the challenge here. Let’s see. That hits the bat first. It’s about as bang bang as it gets. If anything, it I mean, it hits the if the other angle shows it hitting the bat first. So, it should be a foul ball. Watch. Watch. It hits the bat first. Great job by our crew to show it to you as best as we can. Looks like bat then hand. Bat then hand. That’s a foul ball. That should be a foul ball. So, rollless again, let me correct myself. I thought it was a foul ball. The call on the field is hit by pitch. Our replay review is presented by Zoom. AJ Hinch is challenging, hoping that this will be overturned to a foul ball. Man, that cannot feel good on his hand either. That was a direct hit. I just don’t know how it’s not a foul ball from the angle we showed. Yeah, it’s a foul ball. We’ll see if they agree in New York, but gosh, it that just looks like a foul ball. Wild start to this bottom of the 12th inning. Revas was down in the count. He came back to draw a walk and then the throw over by Monttero to try to catch him napping hits Revas gets away. Revas to second. Robless was showing bunt. Monttero threw inside. It was called a hit by pitch and Robas certainly got hit, but if it hit the bat first and went into foul fair territory, it’s a foul ball. When you zoom in, watch. He moves his hand. It clearly hits the bat and goes down. It looks like the angle changed. Is that what you’re seeing, AJ? It looks like it hit the bat and went down and hit his hand. I agree. Alan Porter, our crew chief and home plate umpire with the call. After review, the call on the field stands. It is hit by P. So, the evidence apparently not conclusive to overturn the call on the field which was hit by pitch for Robas. This is how the inning started with the walk by Reebos, the toss over off of Reebas over to the side, and then the hit by pitch call on Robas. He had his finger out there, too. And again, not conclusive. I guess what they’re saying is you can’t really see where his index finger is exactly, but it sure does look like a foul ball. Well, if it hits his index finger, it’s not ball’s not going straight down. Sorry. Here’s Crawford. He shows bunt. This is what you were calling for last time, AJ, to try to move the runners over with nobody out. Well, if he gets them over, they’re between a rock and a hard place if you’re the Tigers. Cuz you’re not going to walk Randy Rosarell play with Cal Raleigh. Got to get the butt down. Got got to put the pressure all over the Tigers. Whoa. First baseman is coming in. That’s Torqulson. But you can’t walk him. Well, obviously you cannot walk him. [Applause] Crawford pulls back and it’s three and 0. You taking two right here, AJ? I’m buttoning. I know. On three 0. Heck yeah, I’m buttoning. I’ve I’ve squared around. I might take it, but I’m at least showing it. It’s a strike. Crawford dropped the bat thinking it was ball four. [Applause] Nice frame by Dingler behind the plane. [Applause] 3-1 pitch. Crawford puts it down. It’s a foul ball. Whoa. Count runs full at three and two. That is really, really close right there. [Applause] Oo man, that’s close. Dingler was ready to fire. He wanted a force out at third. Winning run at second. Nobody out. Payoff pitch to Crawford. In the air, left center over is Green. A step. He’s got it. Back to second goes Revas. And there’s one down. I would have kept the bun on. I’m sorry. I still would have kept the bun on. Kater Montero with an enormous out right there. What a job by Monttero to get a key first out. A double play can end this inning and send it to the 13th. But back to the top of the order for Randy or Rose Aarena, [Applause] swinging a foul. I don’t know if Revos would do it, but if I’m the Tigers, I’m a little bit of worried about them trying to double steal here just to get the runner to third with less than two outs for Randy. I listen, it’s a gutsy play in the 12th inning of a winner go winner take all game, but it’s got a big lead. Rebounds can run a little bit. Rosarena back to Montero. Throw to second to Torres. Inning over. The 12th inning was made for defense and Kar Monttero the pitch of his life for a double play to finish this off in the 12th. and send game five for the 13th inning. Leo Rivas got a board and then got to second base on a Montero error on a pickoff attempt. This controversial call hit by pitch on the field. Not enough evidence to overturn the replay. Crawford could not get a bunt down. Instead, he flew it out to Riley Green for the first out of the inning. And then back to the top of Rose Arena. Montero induces the 143 double play. And we are still playing ball in game five. To the 13th inning we go. Key defensive plays by both teams in the 12th. And here’s Riley Green against Bazardo. Low fast ball taken by Green for ball one. 0 for four tonight, but was intentionally walked in the 11th inning. Slider foul. Tigers had chance after chance after chance. Could not cash in. It felt like the walls were closing in and Kar Monttero pushed them back open. And now Liedra Luis Castillo is loosening up in the Seattle pin. Green takes a strike. This has been an amazing game for for so many reasons. Mostly the pitching and the defense though is is what’s been incredible. Green fouls back a tough fast ball. Who’s going to blink first in this starown of a game five? Green on a slider goes down swinging. [Music] Two nasty fast balls on the inner half. Set this pitch up and he threw that slider. Started out at the middle of the plate just like those fast that last fast ball and then just dove down to the shoe tops. Now Torqulson skies a slider foul territory that’ll get out of play. [Applause] You know, we thought it was going to be a well- pitched game. We didn’t know it was going to be like a game and a half of a well- pitched game. Scooble and Kirby, the starters were excellent, but these bullpens have answered the call for a combined 13 and a3 innings. 40 outs recorded by this combination of bullpens. Torlson takes strike two. I don’t think one person is left either or sat down. The tension relief of 47,000 here and everybody watching, it’s going to be intense whenever this game comes to a close. One and two on Torlson. Lazardo deals and misses outside. October was made for a game like this. Two two pitch. Torlson lifts one down the right field line. That is heading out of play. Foul again. The Detroit Tigers had to muscle their way through the wild card after a collapse in September, giving up a large division lead to Cleveland, but they were able to beat Cleveland in five games. The Mariners, meanwhile, won their first American League West title in 24 years. They overtook Houston. They beat the Astros in September. They swept them. count runs full on Torlson. The topsyturvy roller coaster nature of these two team seasons has taken us to game five in the ALDS. Payoff pitch to Torlson. Cold strike three. Backto back Bazardo strikeouts. Well, he got him. He got him there because he threw a couple of sliders way off the plate out there and you saw Torlson tracking it, stepping towards the plate every time. But both fast balls he threw that started off the plate away. Torlson took them as balls both times right out of the hand, but they both came back over the middle of the plate or over the corner. Cole Keith takes ball one. Lot of movement there in that fast ball, man. He’s He could start it way off the plate and bring it back to the corner. Looks like a ball out of the hand. That was actually a miss, by the way. That that that pitch was not You saw Raleigh, Cal Raleigh set up inside. He m he missed. He just had so much movement and came back. Man, spin can save you sometimes. Fouled away. That’s what playoff baseball has become, especially when you get into the bullpens. The spin rate, the velocity, the straight up nastiness seemingly has elevated, especially for the teams that are in the playoffs. A 2-1 strike two and a chance for Bazardo to finish off the inning. Three and two on Keith. Three balls, two strikes, two outs. Bazardo wants to reset things for the Tigers. Their longest game by innings in postseason franchise history. Seattle fans know what their longest is. It was three years ago. Tigers have played more than 60 playoff games. They’ve already set some history. They scored nine in their last game. That was the most they’d ever scored. This is the longest game. Boy, Mariners fans are getting used to this. 18 innings three years ago against Houston in a one- nothing game. 13 innings tonight. A winner take all game five. Payoff pitch from Bazardo to Keith. Got him. He strikes out the side and look who’s coming up. AJ talked about him in the open. The heart of the order. Raleigh Rodriguez Palanco. 2-2 game five. [Music] It’s been the bullpens that have taken center stage over the last half dozen innings or so. The defense has stepped up behind them. 42 outs recorded by these two bullpens in what has been an absolutely jaw-dropping at times spectacularly pitched dramafilled high tension winner take all game five welcome you into the broadcast booth Adam way AJ Pzinski Tomduchi on the field our great Fox Sports crew at Spa in the booth I can’t say it enough guys this is a privilege to watch this game and AJ Weno you guys said it is who blinks first. We’ve been on camera too many times. That’s how you know you guys are sick of seeing us game, but it’s been great py well pitched. Someone’s going to get a clutch hit. And now your boy Wayeno Jack Flity is in in relief. Took the loss in game three against Seattle. He has to go through the toughest three hitters for Seattle. Waved on and missed by Cal Raleigh. It’s just in all the biggest moments when guys could have got tight. They stayed loose. They made great pitches. You see the emotion and the energy. It’s been amazing. Raleigh has struck out three times tonight. Had a single all the way back in the first inning four plus hours ago. Rodriguez and Robas loom. Flity. This is down low. Two balls in a strike. Flity pitched in the World Series last year when he was with the Dodgers. Won a title after being traded from Detroit. Came back to the Tigers this season. Raleigh takes inside. Three and one. High leverage count in favor of the hitter. It’s the first time we’ve seen Cal be patient today. Looks like he’s trying to get a ball up out over the plate. [Applause] 3-1 pitch. Raleigh took a big cut at a curve. Three and two. That’s a great job to get back in the count right there for Flity. 3-1. Couple of tough sliders he took and then he came back with that great knuckle curve. Payoff pitch to Raleigh upstairs. Ball four. The winning run is on base to start the 13th. [Applause] [Music] And here’s Julio Rodriguez. [Music] [Applause] Ooh, close pitch goes Rodriguez his way and it’s one and0. Hole for his last 14. Looking for his first hit since game two. Takes a strike. [Applause] two and [Applause] Three and one. Backto back. Three and one counts. Huge caught it up fast ball. Three and two. [Applause] Raleigh at first. Nobody out. 13th inning. And backto back flity walks to start the inning. And the winning run is in scoring position for Seattle. [Applause] What are you thinking, AJ? He’s swinging. He’s not bunning. He’s in fourth. And you got backto back walks. Palano knows the strike zone. I There’s no way. Yeah. Normally I would say bunt. You’re just taking a pitch. Are you? No. I’m ready to go. First pitch, I’m ready to let it eat. Two on, nobody out for Palanco. And Flity will reset. Breaking ball. Misses low. Not a bad time for a mound meeting if you’re the pitching coach. The catcher can go out there also. Yeah, this is you got to slow things down here. Palanco takes outside 2 and 0. Clarity all over the place right now. Two pitch. Palanco down the right field line. And it is a foul ball. [Applause] Is that an interesting swing right there for for you, AJ? He walked two guys in a row. No, they were both 3-2 counts, but two pitches that really weren’t close to being strikes and then he swings at a 200 curve ball that would have been a ball three. Yeah, but it was a good swing. It was an aggressive swing. I’m not taking the bat out of Palano’s hands. He’s been too good in this series. Takes a strike on a curve ball and it’s two and two as Flarity is back in the count. I’m just saying for from a pitching standpoint though, sometimes when you get that swing finally, it totally resets your system. Two on, nobody out. The two- two pitch to Palano. Three and two. You got to get a breaking ball here for Flarity, right? I mean, that’s the only thing he’s thrown close. He hasn’t thrown a fast ball close yet. I was thinking he was going to rush him with a fast ball here. Pay on pitch. Fouled away. went slider that time just because he hadn’t thrown a fast ball close yet. The only pitch he’s had any control over is a breaking ball. And Jack Flity, one of the things in game three when he started that AJ Hench said was, “Well, he’ll spin them.” And that’s been his pitch the entire year. Another payoff pitch. Popped up foul and out of play. That was the pitch. He He did get the fast ball on uh on Julio to get back in the count. 3-2 from when it was 3-1. To your point, he’s a he’s been a spin doctor lately. Back-to-back walks issued by Flity to start the 13th. Winning run at second. Nobody out. Another payoff pitch to Palanco. Waved on and missed on a curve. I love I love that pitch. the speed. He’s been slider, slider, slider, and then 3-2 to drop in a slow curve ball. It’s gutsy. And you see how far out in front Palanco is. What a pitch. [Applause] Now it’s Suarez [Applause] who homered off of Flity in game three during his three and a third. Those are his career numbers. Four times he’s gone deep [Applause] down the right field line. Served foul. It’s one and one. Just needs a hit. He doesn’t need to go deep. Cal Raleigh’s on second. And the arms in the outfield aren’t great for the Tigers. Probably Parker Meadows has the best arm. Yeah. But if he hits outfield grass and you’re Cal Raleigh, unless it’s a one hop wicked line drive at somebody, you got to score. [Applause] Two and one. Three and one again. That’s a good pick right there. That ball gets by him. Looking at second and third. Double barreled action. Herder the lefty. Canley the righty behind Flity. Winning run at second. One out. 13th inning. And a 3-1 to Suarez. In there for a strike. Three and two. These are some gutsy pitches by Jack Flity, man. Courageous pitches that he he he keeps falling behind and he keeps making pitches on slider or curveball. 3-2 pitch on the ground too short. Bayz to second for one. Relay to first is in time. Another double play. More clutch defense in the extra innings. Punch after punch, blow after blow, traded by Detroit and Seattle. And this game is headed to the 14th inning, game five in the Pacific Northwest. [Music] This is now the longest winner take all Major League Baseball postseason game by innings. We’re going to the 14th inning in Seattle. Still Edward Bazardo who stepped into the 12th inning then struck out the side in the 13th. Zack McKinstry will lead things off and fouls one back. You are watching one of the great postseason games certainly of this century. [Applause] Nothing at two on McKinstry and this is already a historic game by length and innings in a winner take all game. Game five, winner to Toronto. Sunday night ALCS game one on Fox. McKinstry takes high. Bazardo has pitched in every game in this series. He’s going to pitch with 30 tosses in this outing. He does have backup in the bullpen. A one-two pitch to McKinstry in the air foul. I’m a little surprised that we didn’t see Castillo right here. give him a clean inning. Yeah. You know, and maybe maybe that’s maybe they’re thinking that he’s warm enough for next inning. I don’t know. But if you’re bringing in a starter, it’s always best to bring him in with a clean inning. McKin Street fouls it back. How long do you think it would take somebody like Castillo to get loosened up for a relief outing? Again, something he rarely does. Well, it just depends on every everybody’s different. If you have a big long routine, could throw a wrench into that. Could really complicate things. He doesn’t strike me as a big long routine guy though. Another one two. McKinstry golfs it out towards right center field. Rodriguez, he’s there for out number one. Yeah, your question on guest Luis Castillo obviously is major league starting pitcher and nothing but 247 major league games all as a starter. Last time he pitched in relief is for the Jupiter Hammerheads back in 2016. That’s class A Florida State League. How about that? So he hasn’t done it in almost a decade. Gilbert hadn’t done it since college. There’s a strike. Flity has been in a bunch of different roles and he has had to pitch in the postseason before as a reliever. He stepped up in that last inning for Detroit. Gilbert pitched tonight out of the pen for the first time as a professional. Down the left field line, that is a fair ball. Dingler on his way around first. He’s going to have extra bases and the Tigers have the go-ahead run in scoring position in the 14th. So, just like every other inning. Yes. In the 11th, they had Carpenter at second. In the 12th, they had the bases loaded. And now in the 14th, a man at second for Parker Meadows, the eight hitter for Detroit with Bayz on deck. 35th Bazardo pitch is high. Lot of deep breaths, especially by these hitters. Everyone wants to be the hero. Can you slow the game down, Weno? Can you slow it down? Slow your heartbeat. You guys have played in big games. You guys won the World Series. You guys had to grind through game after game after game coming up in big spots. These two teams desperately trying to drive in a key run. The 1-1 Meadows takes high. [Applause] Neither team, especially these relievers, have blinked yet. [Applause] I’m wondering about the mound visit rule because Cal Raleigh the number keeps going up for the teams on the scoreboard but at least once an inning Cal Raleigh has made a trip to the mound. So I think they just gave up on I think they just gave up that rule. I I mean I know they get one every extra inning. It just seems like Cal Rley has been at the mound. Like it’s been a lot, right? Yeah. Oh, they just went down. They finally took one down. Three left for Seattle. Five left for the Tigers. That’s how deep we are in the game. We’re breaking down mountain visits. 2-2. Top of the 14th inning. Skoal struck out 13 in six innings. Kirby went five innings, each only allowed a run. Carpenter had the go-ahead two-run home run in the sixth. Of all players, Leo Rivas in his first postseason at bat in just his second playoff game tied the game in the seventh. All the way back in the seventh. That was half a game ago in the 14th now. Dingler at second, one out for Meadows. And the two-1 waved on and foul tip. Two and two. Meadows takes called strike three. That’s a pitch that we have not seen him swing at all series long. Every time they can make that comeback sinker on the inside part of the plate, he takes it. And with Bayas coming up having homerred off of Bazardo in game four, it is going to be time for Liedra who will pitch in the biggest inning of this contest, the 14th with Bayz coming. Well, in about 20 minutes in the central time zone, it’s going to be midnight. So, we’ll change that graphic to tonight for Cubs and Brewers. Winner take all game five in Milwaukee. Then, game one of the American League Championship Series. The Toronto Blue Jays have their feet up somewhere watching pitcher after pitcher after pitcher enter this game. They await the winner of this contest in Toronto, 2500 miles east. We’re in the top of the 14th inning, tied at two. And for the first time since his minor league days, Luis Castillo, who battled Scooble in game two to a no decision, will make his first relief appearance as a Major League Baseball pitcher and he’ll face Javier Bayz. Go ahead run at second in Dingler. And Bayz takes a strike. Two of the great nicknames in baseball. Castillo Lapedra. Bayz Elmago pops it up. Naylor over. He’s got it to the bottom of the 14th we go in a 2-2 game. A run wins the series. Now he’s got tied at two a piece. Naylor will lead things off. They’ve had to switch it up on the scoreboard here in Seattle to the bottom of the 14th inning in game five. Jack Flareity into his second inning of relief. One of 14 pitchers used more than 400 pitches and still 2-2. Josh Naylor takes a breaking ball strike. Back door curve. Three hit game for Naylor. Big cut on a slider. Nothing and two. Seattle still has Ben Williamson and Harry Ford. Two guys who have never played in a postseason game available as well as Luke off the bench. Tigers have all five of their players available off the bench. Jones, Sweeney, Rogers, Aanz, and Perez. 02 to Naylor. Fouled back. Remember, we talked about it when we went to the 10th, which seems like four hours ago, but during the regular season in Major League Baseball, there’s the ghost runner, the Manford man, whatever you want to call it. Teams get used to playing with the runner on second and no outs. Here they actually have to manufacture a run from home plate or hope someone runs into one. There is no easy out. 02 pitch. Golfed on the ground to second. Torres has it and Naylor retired. One away in the 14th. So Leo Rebas will have his fourth plate appearance in this game after he got the game tying pinch hit RBI single to score Palano in the seventh. That run was charged to Finnegan. He hit it off of the lefty Holton. Batting lefty against the righty Flity. [Applause] [Applause] two and 0. Clarity got behind everybody in that 13th inning. Had two on with nobody out. He struck out Palanco and got the huge double play off the bat of Suarez. His two to Rebas. Another back door breaking ball clips the strike zone. He will not give in, will he? He just will not. He’s just going to keep firing breaking balls behind in the count and keep making really good pitches. These are strikes. That’s a strike. That’s right on the corner down and away. That’s a perfect pitch, especially two and 0. Two and two. Who’s he talking to, Wayne? He’s a He’s a great self motivator. That’s what I was just thinking. He’s having a full conversation with himself out there in the dugout as he was running in. He’s got a few words in so far. Flarity’s 2-2. Rebas waves and misses at a breaking ball. Two down here in the 14th inning. the regular Victor. I think we’re going to see Flity and La Pedra for a while if this keeps going like it is. I think it’s their game right now. Bulk guys, obviously starters who can give you some length and right now it is seemingly necessary. Here’s Victor Robas. Two down to the 14th inning. Oh, this was the guy that Jack made a mistake to the other day that Victor’s the one that got the rally started for them. He hung a breaking ball middle in and he pulled it down the line for a double. No, close pitch goes Robless’s way. Two and0. I love that. You hear ball no. And you hear Dingler go, “Oh, every pitch, more than 400 of them. Such weight on him.” The two inside where Robas almost got hit for a second consecutive played appearance. A controversial hit by pitch on a butt attempt in the 12th inning. Monttero got out of that jam with a double play. Three 0 toolless taken all the way and it’s ball four. The two out walk to Robas will bring up JP Crawford with the winning run at first. JP, you know, I was just thinking too, Robus’ hand, he might have been up there and he wasn’t even going to swing. Sure. His right hand just got demolished earlier with that ball. I bet he wasn’t even up there to swing. Does he run? It’s definitely a situation to to get him up there if you can. Jack’s quick to the plate. Dingler’s a good thrower. The ball could be tough though. Robas has been caught stealing in this series. That was at third base in game three. He stole six bags in eight tries this year. Only played in 32 games during the regular season due to injury. A ball and a strike on Crawford with the winning run at first. Breaking ball waved on and missed. One and two. Dingler’s going to have to come out and talk with Flity. And the Tigers will use one of those mountain visits. A historic winner take all game five tonight in Seattle. [Music] Dan Wilson, a catcher on the last LCS team for Seattle in 2001. The Tigers trying to get back for the first time in 12 years. Flity is one, two, Robas goes, pitches outside, throw down to second. He’s out. Caught stealing for the second time in this series. Dingler cuts down Robless to send this game to the 15th. I mean, perfect throw. We saw Raleigh earlier. We see Dingler here. Two of the best defensive catchers with strikes at second. [Music] Ready to go in the 15th inning. Tigers and Mariners in an epic winner take all game five. The winner heads to the American League Championship Series. And who’s waiting? The Toronto Blue Jays, the number one seed in the American League. One of the great powerhitting lineups. They exploded in that series against the Yankees, especially in the first two games. Some incredible pitching performances. They outscored New York 34 to9. and Vlatty was impressive in their first ALCS since 2016. Coverage will begin with our crew on Sunday night on Fox at 7 Eastern. Luis Castillo, his first Major League Relief appearance. He finished off the 14th inning and he faces the top of the order in the 15th and pours in a strike to Carpenter who fouls one away and it’s nothing and two. Carpenter has been excellent tonight. Has reached base in all six trips and had the two-run home run off of Gabe Spire all the way back in the sixth to make it 2-1 at the time. [Applause] Rally Chungleta. A one-two pitch. Swing and a miss and a fast ball. Well, they finally got Carrie Carpenter out. It only took 15 innings, but they threw one at his neck and he swung at it. He’s had he had had great at bats up until here, but they finally got him to chase one too high that he couldn’t get to. Here’s Torres. Swing and a miss on a fast ball. Similar location. I love how these starters have responded. Put in funky situations. They’ve come in and really pitched. Gilbert and Castillo for Seattle. Flity and in a way Meltton as well. Future starter. He did start in game one this series for Detroit. Two and one on Torres. [Applause] Torres takes a cut of the fast ball. Two and two. the pitch. Three and two. You got to rush him up here again, right? High fast ball. Top rail. Top rail. Middle towards towards the inside part though. He’s he’s got a hole up there, but he does have power. Payoff pitch Torres down the right field line towards the corner. That ball is a foul. That’s what I mean. If it gets a little out over the plate and not towards him enough, he drives that ball to right field. Now, it’s not high. It’s really not high enough either where he’s trying to throw it, is it, AJ? He wants that a little higher. But if that’s out there, we’ve seen him earlier this series. He hit a home run to right field. drove a double out there. If it’s away from him out there and up top, he can get to it. Well, now you throw slider, correct? After that one, you go slider or up up. Pay off pitch. Foul away again. It was a fast ball, but it’s 3-2. See, the problem is it’s 3-2. So, if you throw it too high and he doesn’t swing, you walk them. I know he he hasn’t taken a fast ball up this whole series hardly, though. That’s the only pitch he swings at routinely, isn’t it? Pretty much. He takes those sliders down. Chopper to the left side. Third baseman Suarez has it and a soft toss to first for the second out and the 15. [Applause] Bueno, you mentioned it. More than likely or certainly it feels like Castillo and Flity have a good amount of pitches in them. That’s who Seattle and Dan Wilson have out of their bullpen. Meanwhile, AJ Hinch, he might have to dig deep as well. Here’s Green. First pitch swinging. Pops it up. A Rose Arena gives some chase. He is there and he’s got room. And the inning is over. And we go to the bottom of the 15th inning. Still tied at two. Crawford will lead it off for Seattle. [Music] 4 and 1/2 hours ago. The emotions riding high, the adrenaline just as high, great hitting, huge pitches from the bullpen. The starters were excellent. Defense has stepped up in big moments. They are doing a second salmon run as we get set for the bottom of the 15. That’s how long this game has gone. And it’s still two-2. And they’re trying to rile up this Seattle home crowd to try to send them to the LCS. And it will be Crawford, A Rose Arena, and Raleigh against new right-hander Tommy Canley. [Applause] Pitched in game one, a scoreless seventh. gave up the Cal Raleigh RBI in game three. This will be his third appearance of this series, fourth of the playoffs. Crawford was at the plate when Robas was cut down, stealing second. Ball one from Kanley as he throws a fast ball to start the night instead of a change up. I was just going to say if you haven’t seen Tommy Kanley pitch, he change up, change up, change up and he starts off JP Crawford with a heater of course. Crawford takes a change up on the corner. A generous call to even the count. Just before the fast, I was about to look at you and say, “Well, you have to sit change up, right?” The 250th pitch thrown by a Tiger tonight is outside two and one. 460th pitch of the game coming [Applause] the two-1 to Crawford. Big cut on a fast ball. Two fast balls and one at bat. This is a guy who throw through 60 consecutive change ups in the postseason last year before Kik Hernandez of the Dodgers in the World Series saw a fast ball when Kanley was with the Yankees. Two- two pitch into right field. A base hit and a go ahead run is aboard to lead off the 15 for Seattle. [Applause] change up well located. JP just went down and got it. He thought there was no way in the world that Kayley was going to double up on a fast ball. I think he just leaned out over there, stuck his nose out there, and made a good swing. Here’s a Rose Arena at the top of the order. and he gets hit. And that puts the winning run in scoring position for Cal Rowley. [Applause] One of the best hitters in baseball this year, the leader of the Mariners, an MVP candidate with a chance to end it. Strike one. Another fast ball from Kane Lee. Completely flipping the script. [Applause] Nothing and one on Raleigh. [Applause] One and one. Kanley and he saw him take that first pitch fast ball. That should tell him he’s sitting change up. But it’s hard to double up if you’re Canley. One-1 Raleigh. Popped up foul. One and two. Then everybody said change up on Kanley though. I I mean yeah it’s cool he’s threw the fast ball but you know at the end of the day he’s going to the change up. Crawford’s the winning run at second base. Raleigh into center field. Meadows started in goes back makes the catch. profitable tag from second. He will advance. That ball gets away, but it’s backed up by Keanley, but that’s going to allow Rosarena to go up to second. And the winning run is 90. Agonizing feet away for Seattle. You got to walkio here, don’t you? Base open at first, open at first, and take your chance. You get a double play. I I don’t know what else what the other what else. You have no other play. Here we go. You have to sets up the force at it home. Sets up the double play and you just can’t pitch to Julio in that situation. The Tigers have turned an inning ending double play in each of the last two innings. Kanley hoping that maybe a change up can induce a ground ball here from Palano to try to send this to the 16th inning. Palano with one swing could end the series. waved on and missed on a change up again. He knows it’s coming and he still is so far out in front of it. The defense here is kind of halfway. Glaver Torres. If it’s not hit right at you and you don’t think you can turn it, you got to come home. One and one. What do you think about where Jav’s playing right now? Well, Jav is in kind of a modified shift because you can’t shift anymore. They’re they’re taking away the ball up the middle because Kanley throws so many change ups. One-1 to Palanco. Two and one. and anything to the outfield here, the game is over. Because with JP Crawford on third, the Tigers don’t have the arms to throw him out at the plate. Crawford the winning run at third. One out. The two-1 pitch to Palano. Foul. Two and two on a change up. A little surprised they’re so deep in right field right here, AJ. Well, if it gets through, it’s the game’s over. Yeah, but a fly ball, I mean, you got to be able to throw him out of home. Can he do it from there? No, but if it’s hit that deep, he’s not throwing him out anyway. So, yeah, I agree with you. He probably should be in. But I throw him a heater right here and try and punch him out. Two two pitch. It was a heater. It was low. That runs the count full. There was nowhere to put Palano. Don’t swing. Auto take. Bold strategy, but I’m for it. 3-2. Palanco sends it into right and will send Seattle to the American League Championship Series for the first time in 24 years. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] Heat up [Applause] here. [Applause] They will remember this night and this game and that swing in the Pacific Northwest forever. He got the change up and he finally got one through. Somebody finally came through to be the hero. Jorge Palanco. What a game. One of the greatest playoff games we may ever see. ends in the 15th inning with the longest tenyard Mariner JP Crawford scoring the winning run a 32 15 inning epic down to Tom Verduchi with Cal Raleigh thank you Adam Cal Raleigh Seattle has waited 24 years to hear this the Mariners are going to the ALCS to play for the American League penant what does this moment mean for you and this franchise I mean wow I know what to say. The fans, what a game. Took so long. Holy So, what a game. Unbelievable. So happy for our guys and the fans. Cal, both teams gave us an instant classic. We’ve never seen a game where two teams playing for their live playoff lives played this hard for this long. What was it like to be involved in this? I mean, I wish I could say it’s our first time, but we we did it against Houston a couple years ago, so it’s crazy. you know, love our fans. They’re unbelievable. The fact they stayed and cheers on the song, they just love these guys here. Cal, take me through that 15th inning as it began to unfold as it moved toward Jorge Palano, who’s been so clutch for you in this postseason. He was huge. He was huge all series. Uh had great confidence in him when he get up. Unbelievable at bat and just so happy with our guys. And finally, the job that your bullpen did. We saw starters coming out for the first time in their careers. What about the job by a core of relief pitchers? Everybody was great. You know, I have so much you I’m so happy for those guys. They they did amazing. It was such a tough night and everybody put their other stuff aside and did everything for the team, including Logan and Louis. So, you know, just huge props to those guys. Unbelievable. Cal, we will see you in the ALCS. How does that sound? Sounds great. I’ll see you there. Back to you. And there is Jerry Dotto who has been maligned at times, has been frustrated. The fan base has, but his moves, his aggressiveness at the deadline helps this Mariner team get to a place they haven’t been in nearly a quarter of a century. It’s unbelievable to see. I feel so excited for these Mariner fans, but I feel devastated for the Tigers fans. I I’m just sad that that had to end. I’m sad somebody had to lose that incredible challenge because it was it was amazing. I’m glad I got to be up here for it. What a night. What a game. What a series. Postgame coverage comes your way next for Adam Wayright, AJ Persinski, Tom Verduchi, our phenomenal Fox Sports crew. Adam Am letting you know that it was an absolute privilege to be here tonight. Seattle to the ALCS. [Music]
10/10/25: Detroit Tigers @ Seattle Mariners – 2025 ALDS Game 5 Full MLB Game
In the longest winner-take-all game in MLB postseason history, the Seattle Mariners defeated the Detroit Tigers 3-2 in 15 innings in Game 5 of the 2025 ALDS on October 10. Second baseman Jorge Polanco drove in the winning run with a walk-off single in the bottom of the 15th inning, sending the Mariners to their first American League Championship Series since 2001.
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