SEATTLE -- In his first playoff game as a big league manager, Dan Wilson stuck with his starter and got stung.

Less than 24 hours later, he found himself right back in the same situation. This time, the script had a different ending, in what ended up as a 3-2 Mariners win over the Tigers on Sunday to level the American League Division Series at one game apiece.

“It’s almost deja vu all over again,” the Mariners skipper quipped after it was all said and done.

For the second straight night, the Mariners took a 1-0 lead on a home run in the bottom of the fourth inning. For the second straight night, Seattle’s starter danced around traffic for four frames before running into another jam with two outs and Detroit’s Kerry Carpenter -- who slugged 23 of his 26 regular-season home runs agains

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