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Detroit Tigers manager A.J. Hinch has settled on a lineup for his team’s biggest game of the season.
With their playoff lives on the line in Game 5 of the ALDS against the Mariners on Friday, Oct. 10, the Tigers are leaning on the best matchup they have. Right-hander George Kirby will be making his second start of the ALDS, so the Tigers have picked left-handed slugger Kerry Carpenter to hit leadoff.
Back in Game 1 of the series, Carpenter hammered a crucial home run off Kirby in the fifth inning to help the Tigers steal Game 1 at T-Mobile Park. It was Carpenter’s fifth home run in his career off Kirby in just 11 at-bats, an utter domination of the otherwise solid Kirby.
It is the third time this series that Carpenter has hit leadoff.
All-Star second baseman Gleyber Torres will hit second behind Carpenter after hitting leadoff for the first two games in the series.
After a really slow start the the playoffs that looked like a carryover from the regular season, Torres has started to heat up the last two games. He went 2-for-4 in Game 3 and then followed that up with a 2-for-3 performance in Game 4 that included a walk and a home run.
On the mound, the Tigers will be opening with ace Tarik Skubal, who is making his second start of the series and third of this postseason.
Here is a look at the full lineups for both teams in the win-or-go-home Game 5 at T-Mobile Park in Seattle:
Detroit Tigers lineup today in Game 5 of ALDS vs. Mariners
- RF Kerry Carpenter
- 2B Gleyber Torres
- LF Riley Greene
- 1B Spencer Torkelson
- DH Colt Keith
- 3B Zach McKinstry
- C Dillon Dingler
- CF Parker Meadows
- SS Javier Báez
Starting pitcher: Tarik Skubal
Seattle Mariners lineup in Game 5 of ALDS vs Tigers
- LF Randy Arozarena
- C Cal Raleigh
- CF Julio Rodríguez
- 2B Jorge Polanco
- 3B Eugenio Suárez
- 1B Josh Naylor
- DH Mitch Garver
- RF Víctor Robles
- SS J.P. Crawford
Starting pitcher: George Kirby
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