Rodriguez double rallies M's in G2, knots series

SEATTLE -- Julio Rodriguez deed a tiebreaking RBI treble successful the eighth inning and the Seattle Mariners bushed the Detroit Tigers 3-2 successful Game 2 of their AL Division Series connected Sunday to adjacent the series.

With the crippled knotted astatine 2-2 and 1 retired successful the bottommost of the eighth inning, AL MVP campaigner Cal Raleigh doubled with 1 out. Shortly after, Rodriguez doubled location Raleigh to enactment the Mariners successful beforehand for good.

Closer Andres Munoz retired the Tigers successful bid for the prevention 1 nighttime aft throwing 2 innings successful a 3-2 nonaccomplishment successful 11 innings. Jorge Polanco homered doubly for Seattle successful the win.

After going scoreless against Seattle starter Luis Castillo and 3 Mariners relievers, the Tigers tied the crippled against Matt Brash successful the apical of the eighth.

Gleyber Torres worked a leadoff walk, and Riley Greene reached connected a fielder's prime that was misfielded by Seattle archetypal baseman Josh Naylor for an error. Spencer Torkelson followed up with a treble into the right-field country to necktie the people astatine 2-2.

Seattle regained the pb successful the bottommost of the inning.

Raleigh, who led the majors successful location runs this play with 60, lined Kyle Finnegan's transportation into the right-field country and slid headfirst into 2nd base. Rodriguez followed with a treble of his own, sending the sellout assemblage of 47,431 astatine T-Mobile Park into a frenzy.

Polanco got the Mariners connected the committee with a one-out solo homer implicit the partition successful near halfway tract successful the bottommost of the 4th inning. He added different 1 disconnected reigning AL Cy Young Award victor Tarik Skubal with 2 outs successful the sixth.

Polanco became the 4th Mariners subordinate with a multi-homer crippled successful the postseason, joining Ken Griffey Jr., Edgar Martinez and Jay Buhner, who each accomplished the feat successful 1995.

Skubal, who struck retired 14 batters to acceptable the AL grounds for astir strikeouts successful a postseason crippled by a left-handed starter portion beating Cleveland successful Game 1 of the Wild Card Series, fanned 9 crossed 7 innings connected Sunday. He constricted the Mariners to 5 hits and walked one.

Castillo, meanwhile, maneuvered done 4 2/3 scoreless innings. In the fifth, helium surrendered his archetypal deed of the game, a two-out azygous by Gleyber Torres that enactment runners connected the corners. But left-hander Gabe Speier was summoned to look Game 1 leader Kerry Carpenter and struck him retired to extremity the inning.

Castillo present has a 1.49 vocation postseason ERA, having fixed up 4 earned runs and 18 hits successful 24 1/3 innings portion striking retired 22 and walking five.

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