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What were you doing October 18, 2001? That was the last time we saw a Major League Baseball playoff game in Seattle. Until October 15, 2022, that is. After four straight road playoff games in their first postseason since Ichiro's rookie year, the Mariners finally get to play at home again Saturday, hosting Game 3 in their ALDS matchup against Houston. The Astros hold a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five ALDS after two comeback wins.

In front of their own fans, the Mariners made it last, taking a scoreless game into the 12th behind a dominant start from George Kirby, but unable to scratch anything across against Houston's own pitching staff.

CBS Sports will have live updates, highlights, analysis and more throughout the game. Follow along below.

We head to the 13th. Yordan, Breggy, Tuck are due up. pic.twitter.com/m4ECCE580C

Hey, it's your fault. All of you. You have hated and then whined about the automatic runner rules. This is what we get. 

Altuve now 0 for 6 in Game 3 and 0 for 14 in the series.

Still scoreless. The pitching has been outrageously good.

Time to... pic.twitter.com/ozYT2yT4NG

This is the inning. Calling it. (Not saying who wins tho.)

After a lineout, he got a Yordan Alvarez fly to the warning track (which surely provided quite the scare to Mariners fans) and then struck out Alex Bregman. Amazing work from Matt Brash. 

Onto 10 and no one has scored. 

Two outs for Adam Frazier. Extra innings loom. Can the Astros force them? Can the Mariners walk it off? 

Haniger hit on the hand and that hurts, physically, but the Mariners have the walk-off runner 180 feet away with only one out. 

fielder's choice on a grounder, so the speed is off and Raleigh is on first now. Could've been a double play, really close.

Suarez singles and here comes the BIG DUMPER

Eugenio Suarez, Cal Raleigh(!) and Mitch Haniger lined up for the Mariners' ninth. One run does it. 

That's why I'm behind the keyboard. Altuve chases three straight sliders to end the inning.

And now it's two outs. Jose Altuve to the plate. What a huge strikeout by Brash. 90 mph slider on the black to get Vazquez swinging. 

I know Altuve hasn't had a hit yet, but I think you walk him here and pitch to Peña, who will chase sliders.

Game on the line. High drama. 

Astros bunt the runners to second and third with one out in a 0-0 game. Good play. 

Yuli Gurriel with a leadoff single. Aledmys Díaz is pinch hitting for Trey Mancini now, a matchup-based play by Dusty Baker. And he's hit by a pitch. So it's two on and no out for Chas McCormick

Nobody has scored. As a reminder, if this goes to extra innings, there aren't automatic runners in the playoffs. 

And Ty France strikes out on three pitches to end the inning. Swung through elevated fastballs for strikes two and three.

Julio doubles to left with two outs in the eighth. He struck out in his first three at-bats, then just missed a homer by maybe two feet. The go-ahead run is in scoring position.

Left the bat at 105.9 mph, the hardest-hit ball by an Astro all day.

Just 14 of Lance McCullers Jr.'s 88 pitchers were fastballs (12 sinkers, 2 cutters). That's the lowest fastball percentage of any playoff appearance (min. 50 pitches) in the pitch tracking era (since 2008). In 2nd is Masahiro Tanaka, with 19.3% fastballs on October 10, 2019.

.@gkirb98 has ice in his veins. pic.twitter.com/wc6VIaV8jU

LMJ brought the nasty stuff. pic.twitter.com/asMcp0pU8J

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