Tigers-Mariners Game 5 was the longest winner-take-all game, by innings, in MLB playoff history. But where does it rank overall?

The Mariners are, at long last, going to the ALCS. Friday night at T-Mobile Park, the Mariners outlasted the Tigers in an instant classic, winning Game 5 of the ALDS on Jorge Polanco's 15th inning walk-off single.

The longest winner-take-all game in MLB history ended after Jorge Polanco's walk-off single in the 15th inning sent the Seattle Mariners to their first ALCS since 2001.

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Kerry Carpenter is the first MLB player to reach base five times and hit a home run in a winner-take-all postseason game since Babe Ruth in 1926 (World Series Game 7). Ruth’s New York Yankees lost that game — also 3-2 — to the St. Louis Cardinals, hitting a home run in the third game and otherwise getting walked four times.

A full nine innings took place after Tigers ace and Cy Young Award frontrunner Tarik Skubal was pulled after six innings and 99 pitches. With close to 500 total pitches thrown, numerous jams avoided and records broken, here are five of the craziest stats coming out of the instant classic Game 5 at T-Mobile Park:

In the 15th inning of a win-or-go-home American League Division Series Game 5, the Seattle Mariners walked it off against the Detroit Tigers to advance to their first American League Championship Series since 2001.

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