SEATTLE – Edgar. Griffey. Jorge Polanco.

Like the Hall of Famers before him, Jorge Polanco carved his name permanently into the firmament of Mariners lore with extra-inning heroics to send a baseball team that rarely makes the playoffs to the American League Championship Series.

Polanco’s ground ball single gave the Mariners a 3-2 win in the 15th inning of Game 5 of the American League Divisional Series, sending them to a Sunday matchup Toronto to play for a spot in their first World Series.

Three times before Polanco stepped to the plate in the 15th inning the Mariners had gotten a runner in scoring position with no outs in extra innings and came up empty. The team looked tired and, while nearly all of the 47,025 fans in attendance had stayed in their seats, confidence was waning in th

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