The Seattle Mariners could not have scripted this any better.

After rallying to win Sunday’s Game 1, the Mariners teed off on Toronto pitching Monday, securing a 10-3 win over the Blue Jays in Game 2 of the ALCS.

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With the victory, the Mariners won both of the series’ opening games in Toronto for a 2-0 lead. They’ll head back to Seattle for three scheduled home games and a chance to clinch the franchise’s first trip to the World Series on home turf.

Sunday’s win saw the Mariners rally from down 1-0 and then hold off Blue Jays batters for a taut, 3-1 win. There was no such drama Monday — at least not in the later innings.

Seattle opened the scoring with a three-run home by Julio Rodríguez. The Blue Jays punched back with three runs of their own, but two more home runs from Seattle put the game well out of reach for the home team.

Mariners plate 3 runs before recording out

The game got off to an ominous start for Toronto when starter Trey Yesavage hit Randy Arozarena with a pitch and walked Cal Raleigh to put runners on first and second with no outs. Rodríguez then made the Blue Jays pay, with a three-run blast into the left-field bleachers before Toronto recorded an out.

The Blue Jays’ bats, which were largely silenced in Game 1, woke in Game 2, with a two-run first inning off Seattle starter Logan Gilbert. George Springer led off with a double, and he and Nathan Lukes came around to score later in the frame.

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Lukes then tied the game 3-3 with an RBI single in the second, and the once-silenced Rogers Centre crowd was back in the game. But their joy was short-lived.

The Mariners chased Yesavage in the fifth inning after Arozarena reached first on a leadoff single and second on a throwing error. Toronto then intentionally walked Raleigh and replaced Yesavage with reliever Louis Varland.

Jorge Polanco comes through again

Jorge Polanco capitalized on both of those decisions. The cleanup hitter, who has delivered multiple clutch hits already this postseason, came up with another. This time, he launched a three-run home run into the right-center-field stands to retake the lead for the Mariners 6-3.

The home run was Polanco’s third in seven postseason games, and it came with his sixth, seventh and eighth RBI of the playoffs. Per MLB.com’s Sarah Langs, Polanco tied Ken Griffey Jr. with his fourth go-ahead plate appearance of these playoffs, the most in franchise history. He’ll have multiple more opportunities to claim the record as his own.

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Polanco didn’t get the last word for the Mariners, though. Josh Naylor joined the party with a two-run home run in the seventh to blow the game open for a 9-3 Seattle lead.

The home run highlighted a three-run seventh for Seattle that extinguished any hope of a Toronto rally.

Seattle manager Dan Wilson pulled Gilbert after three innings that produced six Blue Jays baserunners and three Toronto runs. Over the remaining six innings, his bullpen rewarded his confidence.

Seattle bullpen delivers again

Eduard Bazardo, Carlos Vargas and Emerson Hancock combined to pitch six shutout innings against a Toronto offense that produced 34 runs in four games against the New York Yankees in the ALDS. Seattle’s bullpen has now pitched nine scoreless innings in the first two games of the ALCS. This is the same unit that was taxed with a 15-inning marathon just three nights ago in Seattle’s ALDS Game 5 win over the Detroit Tigers.

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The bullpen now has a day to rest and what projects to be a pleasant flight back to Seattle before three scheduled home games Wednesday through Friday. If the Mariners can win two of them, they won’t have to fly back to Toronto.