The Seattle Mariners are up 1-0 in the ALCS after stunning the Blue Jays 3-1 in Toronto on Sunday night.

Seattle Mariners 3, Toronto Blue Jays 1: Recap | Box score

The voices of Seattle Sports share their instant reactions to the win below.

Bob Stelton – Wyman and Bob (2-7 p.m. weekdays)

What an absolutely unreal performance out of Bryce Miller and the bullpen tonight.

This was a game that most seemed to believe the Mariners would lose based on the 15-inning marathon Friday night where they used just about every arm they had available. And yet Miller, going on short rest, came up with his best outing of the season. He gave the M’s six innings, allowing just one run on two hits. He gave up a home run on his first pitch of the game and threw 27 pitches in the first inning alone, and it looked like it was going to be a very tough night for this team. He deserves all of the credit in the world for turning things around the way that he did when his team desperately needed him.

This Blue Jays team just put up 34 runs in four games against the Yankees. And between Miller, Gabe Speier, Matt Brash and Andrés Muñoz, the Mariners held them to two total hits and one run. Unbelievable!

It was awesome to see Cal Raleigh go deep once again, especially since it tied the game at 1-1.

Cal Raleigh burns Blue Jays again with HR No. 62 in ALCS Game 1

The hero in this game, much like the clincher against Detroit, was Jorge Polanco. He has been beyond clutch for this team when it has mattered most, and that continued with his pair of RBI singles, the first of which game Seattle the lead.

Now we will see if the Mariners can get greedy and pull off a big win in Game 2 with Logan Gilbert this time starting on short rest.

Stacy Rost – Bump and Stacy (10 a.m. to 2 p.m.)

The Mariners weren’t supposed to take Game 1.

Not that it wasn’t possible, of course. They’re here for a reason. But coming off a grueling five-hour ALDS Game 5 and burning through so many arms, the assumption by those in and outside of Toronto was that this was the Blue Jays’ game to lose.

Bryce Miller was on three days rest. The Blue Jays had raked against the Yankees. It even felt overwhelming early: George Springer jumped all over Miller’s fastball, his first pitch of the game, blasting a solo shot 385 feet to put Toronto up 1-0 in the first. The rest of the inning was a grind; it took Miller 27 pitches to get out of the first, leaving left a pair of Blue Jays runners stranded.

After that, you’d never know this Seattle team wasn’t favored. Miller allowed just one more hit (a single in the second) and just two base runners total through six innings, a brilliant outing and undoubtedly more than the Mariners were hoping to get from him.

The Mariners’ bats, quiet at first, started heating up in the sixth. This wasn’t the back-and-forth battle of home runs Toronto saw with New York. These were grind-out ABs where the Mariners were more ornery and a bit more patient. Innings 2-5 were quiet — M’s fans were surely nervous here — but Cal Raleigh launched a Kevin Gausman splitter for the tying run and Jorge Polanco’s two RBI singles (this guy can’t stop hitting!) drove in another two for a 3-1 win.

Jorge Polanco drives in another run! #ALCS pic.twitter.com/1ck1l3EJq5

— MLB (@MLB) October 13, 2025

Early takeaway: Raleigh, Polanco and J.P. Crawford were the only three bats with an OPS over .700 entering the ALCS. Seattle was third in home runs in the regular season but hadn’t seen a ton of offense outside of an eight-run display at Comerica Park in Game 3 of the ALDS. Seattle’s arms were doing their job, but fans knew the bats would need to show up against a hot Jays team, and they did. Can they keep it going — or even heat up more – in Game 2?

Stat to know: In postseason history, Game 1 winners of a best-of-7 series have advanced 64% of the time, per MLB.

Pure heart and guts tonight. With these stakes and what is on the line, it is not hyperbole to say that Bryce Miller turned in one of the greatest pitching performances in Mariners history. Pitching on three days rest for the first time in his career, he went six innings (for only the second time all season) and stifled the Blue Jays momentum and crowd after the opening-pitch home run by George Springer.

Miller outdueled Kevin Gausman, the Blue Jays ace on normal rest, and allowed a depleted M’s bullpen to perfectly align for the final three innings.

Cal Raleigh will live in the minds of the Blue Jays pitchers for the rest of the series, especially for the game or games left in Toronto, after his game-tying home run. Jorge Polanco continues to come through in clutch moments and that looks like one of the best free agent signings not just of this offseason but perhaps in the entire Mariners tenure of Jerry Dipoto and Justin Hollander.

The Mariners have claimed a monumentally important Game 1 and, for the time, struck fear in the hearts of all of Canada.

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