Back on the West Coast, it was pandemonium. T-Mobile Park erupted when Jorge Polanco laced a walk-off single to right field, sending the Mariners to the ALCS for the first time since 2001 and handing the Tigers an absolutely crushing, season-ending defeat.

Each season begins with optimism across the 30 MLB fan bases, and each one ends with some level of disappointment for 29 of them. Only one team can win the World Series every year, but some fan bases

Kerry Carpenter is the first MLB player to reach base five times and hit a home run in a winner-take-all postseason game since Babe Ruth in 1926 (World Series Game 7). Ruth’s New York Yankees lost that game — also 3-2 — to the St. Louis Cardinals, hitting a home run in the third game and otherwise getting walked four times.

The Mariners are, at long last, going to the ALCS. Friday night at T-Mobile Park, the Mariners outlasted the Tigers in an instant classic, winning Game 5 of the ALDS on Jorge Polanco's 15th inning walk-off single.

Shohei Ohtani hit three homers and struck out ten as he led the Los Angeles Dodgers past the Milwaukee Brewers, 5-1, in Game 4 of the NLCS in a legendary performance that sent them back to the World Series.

With his 455-foot bomb in Game 3 of the NLDS against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies star Kyle Schwarber joined of the list of the longest

The longest streak of consecutive winning seasons by an MLB team other than the Yankees is 18 by the Baltimore Orioles (1968-85). The second-longest active streak is 15 straight winning seasons by the Los Angeles Dodgers, who won their 82nd game on Wednesday.

Andrés Giménez mashed two-run homer to give the Toronto Blue Jays lead over the Seattle Mariners.