The Detroit Tigers and Seattle Mariners offered up pure baseball theatre on Friday night during Game 5 of the American League Division Series. However, as the action was unfolding, the Toronto Blue Jays chose to refer to a different sport while describing the club’s likely thoughts in a post on its official X account.

The GIF, which showed two boxers trading blows while the referee stood back and enjoyed the show, aptly described what was happening.

The Tigers and Mariners played for 4 hours, 58 minutes at T-Mobile Park in Seattle before Jorge Polanco’s single to right field off Tommy Kahnle decided the contest, 3-2, and sent the crowd of 47,025 into a frenzy. The 15-inning contest set a record for the longest winner-take-all game in MLB history.

“We’ve talked about the fight all year l

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