Tigers vs. Mariners: High Stakes Game 5 on Friday Night

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00:00Major League Baseball.

00:01What do we like to see?

00:028.08 p.m. tonight out in the Pacific Northwest.

00:06A winner-take-all game.

00:08And that winner, could it be Detroit with Tarek Skubal?

00:11Or that winner, George Kirby.

00:14Oh, my goodness, here.

00:15And the total listed at 5.5.

00:18What is this, Joe?

00:19At least 7.5, 8.5, 9, 5.5 runs will be at a premium.

00:25But the favor in this game is the Tigers.

00:28They opened up at the FanDuel Sportsbook around a minus-134 price.

00:31FanDuel's moved them to 136.

00:33And as high as 138 at other outlets here.

00:36I look at this game and say, nobody really wants to fade Tarek Skubal, do they?

00:41But this, as you said, Joe, is a Mariners team that's like,

00:43hey, man, we've never seen this guy pitch before.

00:46There's no way we can hit this guy.

00:48All hands on deck.

00:50Game 5, winner-take-all, Friday night, Joe.

00:54I love to see it.

00:55Yeah, listen, it's kind of crazy to think that this even made it to five games, Donnie,

01:01because I did not think this was it.

01:03I thought for sure Seattle would have been able to close the book here.

01:07But once again, you've got two teams that, you know, are not used to being in this spot here.

01:13I mean, it's not like they both have this rich playoff history over the last decade.

01:18Skubal, listen, as good as he is, and this is exactly what Detroit had hoped,

01:23they hoped, you know, they would have been able to get game two for a win,

01:27but they always knew if they could get it to five, they would have Skubal back on the map.

01:31Well, congratulations, you got him on there.

01:34But the Mariners, it's, they're the one team that has somehow managed to figure out,

01:39okay, Skubal's pitching, big deal.

01:41Well, they've beaten him the last three times that they have faced him.

01:45So, it's, they've lost four or five of his last starts here, Skubal.

01:50And for whatever reason, Seattle, once he gets out of the game,

01:54Seattle figures out ways to be able to get it done.

01:57You just, it's hard to trust the bats at Detroit.

02:00I have more faith at home trusting the bats of the Seattle Mariners,

02:04because unless Skubal throws 120 pitches, you know,

02:09they are not taking them out of this game,

02:11which means the longer it goes, the harder it's going to be for Detroit.