It took 15 innings, but the Detroit Tigers have been eliminated from the 2025 MLB playoffs .

Left-hander Tarik Skubal set a new postseason record with seven strikeouts in a row while giving up just one run over six innings, and slugger Kerry Carpenter blasted a go-ahead two-run home run off a left-handed reliever in the sixth inning.

All the Tigers needed was one more big moment.

They didn't get it, losing Game 5 of the ALDS, 3-2, to the Seattle Mariners on Friday, Oct. 10, in an epic winner-take-all showdown at T-Mobile Park. The Mariners tied the game in the seventh inning, then won the game in the 15th inning.

Friday's game, which lasted nearly five hours, is the longest winner-take-all playoff game in MLB history, passing the Colorado Rockies and Chicago Cubs' 13-inning affair

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