The Detroit Tigers were down 3-0, facing the end of their season.
And then their bats erupted.
Nine runs later, they had a 9-3 win over the Seattle Mariners and had forced a Game 5 in the ALDS. Tarik Skubal will get the baseball in the decisive game.
And in the process, the Tigers reached a mark they hadn’t gotten to since Game 6 of the 1968 World Series.
Since then, Detroit had never scored this many runs in a postseason game. That day, they had actually plated 13. But they’d never reached even nine since then.
On this day, they got to nine in emphatic, clutch fashion.
The Tigers’ 9 runs are their most in a postseason game since scoring 13 in Game 6 of the 1968 World Series https://t.co/30zXnaEZOA
— Sarah Langs (@SlangsOnSports) October 8, 2025
Riley Greene hit a clutch left-on-left homer.
Javier Baez hit his first postseason home run in eight years.
The back half of the bullpen never let the Mariners have any life.
And so that means the Tigers get to take at least one more plane ride as a team. They’ll hop aboard and fly back to the Pacific Northwest.
They’ll get to be off on Thursday and line up their ace for Friday. It’ll be one game for a spot in the ALCS, and Detroit will have the best pitcher in the American League on the mound.
They’ll get that chance because of their bats.
