SEATTLE – Bases loaded. Full count. One out. Detroit Tigers season on the line.

And this wild, dramatic, exhausting, pressure-packed game that felt like it was never going to end. This crazy, maddening season that had so many ups and downs. It all came to end with one swing, as Jorge Polanco hit a single to right in the 15th inning off Tommy Kahnle, as Seattle beat the Tigers, 3-2, in Game 5 of the ALDS at T-Mobile Park on Friday, Oct.10

The Mariners will advance to the ALCS and play at Toronto on Sunday.

The Tigers will return home to clean out their lockers, as this fascinating, maddening season comes to an end in the same place as a year ago.

Over the weeks and months to come, there will be time to dissect everything. To figure out everything that went right for so long and ev

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