Detroit Tigers manager A.J. Hinch has settled on a lineup for his team's biggest game of the season.

With their playoff lives on the line in Game 5 of the ALDS against the Mariners on Friday, Oct. 10, the Tigers are leaning on the best matchup they have. Right-hander George Kirby will be making his second start of the ALDS, so the Tigers have picked left-handed slugger Kerry Carpenter to hit leadoff.

Back in Game 1 of the series, Carpenter hammered a crucial home run off Kirby in the fifth inning to help the Tigers steal Game 1 at T-Mobile Park. It was Carpenter's fifth home run in his career off Kirby in just 11 at-bats, an utter domination of the otherwise solid Kirby.

It is the third time this series that Carpenter has hit leadoff.

All-Star second baseman Gleyber Torres will hit se

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