Baseball underdog Seattle Mariners create unique first in crazy playoff comeback

Adam Frazier hit a tiebreaking RBI double in the ninth inning, and the Seattle Mariners erased a seven-run deficit while topping the Toronto Blue Jays 10-9 for a sweep of their AL wild-card series in the MLB playoffs.

It was the biggest road comeback win in playoff history and baseball's largest comeback victory to clinch a postseason series. Next up for resilient Seattle is Houston in the AL Division Series.

Making the franchise's first playoff appearance since 2001, Seattle trailed 8-1 through five innings, but it tied it with four runs in the eighth.

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With two out and the bases loaded, J.P. Crawford hit a blooper to centre against All-Star closer Jordan Romano. Centre fielder George Springer and shortstop Bo Bichette went hard after the ball, but it landed as the two collided. All three runners scored on the double, tying it at 9-9.

It looked as if Bichette’s right arm whacked Springer across the forehead. Bichette got up pretty quickly and stayed in the game after he was checked on by a trainer. A woozy Springer was helped to his feet before he was carted off the field.

The 33-year-old Springer, a four-time All-Star, encouraged the cheering crowd as he was driven off.

Cal Raleigh, who hit an RBI single for Seattle in the eighth, reached on a one-out double against Romano in the ninth. After Mitch Haniger flied out, Frazier drove in Raleigh with a double to right.

Bichette walked, stole second and advanced to third on a grounder in the eighth, but Andrés Muñoz retired Alejandro Kirk to end the threat.

George Kirby, Seattle’s eighth pitcher of the game, handled the ninth for his first career save. Matt Chapman walked with one out, but Danny Jansen struck out and Raimel Tapia lined out to end the game.

The Mariners then poured out of their dugout and celebrated behind the mound. They also beat Toronto 4-0 in game one of the best-of-three series on Saturday.

Toronto got off to a fast start in game two. Teoscar Hernández hit a two-run homer in the second and a solo drive in the fourth against Robbie Ray, who won the AL Cy Young Award while pitching for the Blue Jays last year.

Hernández joined teammate Danny Jansen and former Toronto slugger José Bautista as the only Blue Jays players with multihomer games in the postseason.

GUARDIANS 1, RAYS 0, 15 INNINGS

Rookie Oscar Gonzalez broke up the longest scoreless postseason game in history with a leadoff homer in the 15th inning, giving the Guardians a sweep of the Wild Card Series.

Gonzalez drove a 1-0 cutter — the 432nd pitch in the nearly five-hour game — off Corey Kluber over the wall in left-centre to touch off a wild celebration.

Next up for Cleveland is the opener of its best-of-five Division Series on Tuesday in New York against the AL East champion Yankees.

Tampa Bay had six hits and used eight pitchers, including Kluber, who made his first relief appearance in more than nine years. Cleveland got five hits, also used eight pitchers and squandered a bases-loaded opportunity in the sixth.

Tampa Bay was bounced quickly from its fourth straight postseason appearance. The Rays finished with seven straight losses.

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