Mariners take ALDS lead over Tigers with Game 3 win
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In the other ALDS game of the day, the Mariners came out of a three-hour rain delay, the Mariners got down to business and took down the Tigers, holding on to an 8-4 victory thanks to home runs from Eugenio Suárez,
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But Castillo got himself together, taking just nine pitches in each of the third and fourth innings to retire the Tigers in order. And in the bottom of the fourth, the Mariners finally struck against Skubal, as Jorge Polanco muscled a ball into Seattle’s bullpen to make the score 1-0.
All the way over on the west coast, the Mariners picked up a much-needed 3-2 win against the Tigers, with Jorge Polanco and Julio Rodríguez each playing hero. Polanco hit two solo home runs off of Detroit ace Tarik Skubal, then Rodríguez delivered the go-ahead double in the bottom of the eighth inning.
Despite not getting the NLDS sweep in Game 3, the Dodgers still need just one win to clinch over the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday night.
Meanwhile, the American League is down to just one series after the top-seeded Toronto Blue Jays dispatched the fourth-seeded New York Yankees in four games to advance to the ALCS. The Blue Jays await the winner of the second-seeded Seattle Mariners-sixth-seeded Detroit Tigers matchup.