Detroit Tigers set record not reached since 1968 World Series

Billy Heyen

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The Detroit Tigers were down 3-0, facing the end of their season.

And then their bats erupted.

Nine runs later, they had a 9-3 win over the Seattle Mariners and had forced a Game 5 in the ALDS. Tarik Skubal will get the baseball in the decisive game.

And in the process, the Tigers reached a mark they hadn't gotten to since Game 6 of the 1968 World Series.

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Since then, Detroit had never scored this many runs in a postseason game. That day, they had actually plated 13. But they'd never reached even nine since then.

On this day, they got to nine in emphatic, clutch fashion.

Riley Greene hit a clutch left-on-left homer.

Javier Baez hit his first postseason home run in eight years.

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The back half of the bullpen never let the Mariners have any life.

And so that means the Tigers get to take at least one more plane ride as a team. They'll hop aboard and fly back to the Pacific Northwest.

They'll get to be off on Thursday and line up their ace for Friday. It'll be one game for a spot in the ALCS, and Detroit will have the best pitcher in the American League on the mound.

They'll get that chance because of their bats.

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Billy Heyen

Billy Heyen is a freelance writer with The Sporting News. He is a 2019 graduate of Syracuse University who has written about many sports and fantasy sports for The Sporting News. Sports reporting work has also appeared in a number of newspapers, including the Sandusky Register and Rochester Democrat & Chronicle