SEATTLE -- Happy birthday, Leo Rivas .

The 28-year-old utilityman, born this day in 1997 in Maracay, Venezuela, gave a packed house at T-Mobile Park a gift of his own in the seventh inning of Game 5 of the American League Division Series on Friday night , jumping on the second pitch he saw coming off the bench and lining it into left field for a game-tying RBI single.

Rivas wasn’t the first pinch-hitter Dan Wilson opted for in Mitch Garver’s spot in the inning. Garver, who drove in the Mariners’ first run of the night with a sacrifice fly in the second inning, came out to the on-deck circle in the seventh with right-hander Kyle Finnegan on the mound. But when his spot came up with two on and two outs, Wilson pulled him back in favor of lefty Dominic Canzone.

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