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**Tigers Tap Carpenter, Skubal to Keep Playoff Hopes Alive in Crucial Game 5 Against Mariners**

**SEATTLE** – With their season hanging in the balance, the Detroit Tigers will turn to left-handed slugger Kerry Carpenter in the leadoff spot for Friday’s decisive Game 5 of the ALDS against the Seattle Mariners. Manager A.J. Hinch is banking on Carpenter’s past success against Mariners right-hander George Kirby, who will be making his second start of the series. Carpenter has hit five home runs off of Kirby in 11 at-bats.

Carpenter homered off Kirby in the fifth inning of Game 1, to help the Tigers steal game 1 at T-Mobile Park.

All-Star second baseman Gleyber Torres will bat second, looking to continue his hot streak after a slow start to the playoffs. Torres had a good showing in game 4, going 2-for-3 with a walk and a home run.

On the mound, ace left-hander Tarik Skubal will get the start for Detroit, his second of the series and third of the postseason. The Tigers are hoping Skubal can replicate his earlier success and silence the Mariners’ bats in this win-or-go-home contest at T-Mobile Park.

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