Mariners End 24-Year Home Playoff Drought

The Seattle Mariners beat the Detroit Tigers 3-2 in Game 2 of the ALDS at T-Mobile Park, ending a 24-year drought without a home playoff win. Jorge Polanco hit two solo home runs and Julio Rodríguez delivered the go-ahead, game-winning double in the eighth that drove in Cal Raleigh. Lifelong Mariners fan Saul Spady was shown on national TV moved to tears as his fiancée, Shakira (Erickson), wiped his face and removed his glasses in a five-second clip that quickly went viral. Spady, a grandson of the founder of Seattle burger chain Dick’s Drive‑In, said his reaction captured decades of frustration and hope and was widely described as symbolic of renewed optimism for the Mariners' postseason run.