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SEATTLE — The Seattle Mariners went into Wednesday with high expectations, hoping to pick up a third ALCS win for the first time in franchise history. After storming to a 2-0 lead over the Toronto Blue Jays behind a pair of dominant wins in Toronto, the Mariners aimed to extend that lead with a win at home.
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Instead, it was the Blue Jays’ night. Toronto picked up a crushing 13-4 victory, as the Blue Jays’ bats silenced the Seattle crowd over and over again.
First baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. went four-for-four, nearly hitting for the cycle with a single, two doubles and a homer but falling a triple shy. And veteran starter Shane Bieber held Seattle down on defense, throwing eight strikeouts and allowing two runs and four hits across the first six innings.
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At first, it seemed like Seattle’s high-energy postseason would keep going strong: For the second game in a row, Julio Rodriguez got things going for the Mariners with a first-inning home run, sending a two-run bomb into left-center.
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But Toronto came right back, with a five-run inning in the third. Andrés Giménez kicked things off with a two-run homer to tie up the game, before Nathan Lukes got a run off a wild pitch. Then, Daulton Varsho hit a deep double to send two more Blue Jays home for a 5-2 lead.
Toronto kept rolling after that, growing its lead with the help of two solo homers from George Springer and Vlad Guerrero Jr. In the sixth inning, Alejandro Kirk hit a three-run homer to bring the lead to double digits, going up 12-2.
It was only last week that the vibes in Seattle were at an all-time high, as the Mariners earned the walk-off ALDS victory over the Detroit Tigers after a grueling 15-inning Game 5. But that energy was steadily crushed on Wednesday, as the Blue Jays kept piling on run after run in front of a sellout Seattle crowd.
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In the eighth inning, a pair of back-to-back solo homers from Randy Arozarena and Cal Raleigh revitalized the (slightly emptier) crowd. But the Mariners’ late offensive surge was far too little, far too late.
Just for good measure, Addison Barger notched another solo homer in the ninth, marking the fifth home run of the night for the Blue Jays. Toronto becomes the first team in postseason history with five (or more) doubles and five (or more) homers in a game.
This was a much-needed win for the Blue Jays, who stave off a sweep in dominant fashion. But for the Mariners, it’s a tough blow to what had started as a promising series.
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Seattle has never won an AL pennant, and has never won more than two games in the ALCS — which the franchise has made just three times. If the Mariners are able to regroup for a win on Thursday, it will be the furthest they have ever made it in the postseason. But, like on Wednesday, the Blue Jays will do everything in their power to stay alive and even the series.
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The Blue Jays were one of the top offensive teams in baseball this season and finally looked like it in a blowout of the Mariners. They become the first team in MLB postseason history to hit at least five doubles and five home runs in a single game.
A pivotal Game 4 — which could see Toronto tie the series or Seattle take a commanding 3-1 lead — is scheduled for Thursday at 8:33 p.m. ET. It will be Max Scherzer against Luis Castillo on the mound.
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Luke Jackson finishes the top of the ninth with no further damage (though George Springer did get his third hit of the day in front of a crowd that has persistently jeered him). Just three outs to go.
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Toronto gets a run back courtesy of an Addison Barger homer. 414 feet, 108.3 mph, which qualifies as crushed.
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The Blue Jays end the eighth inning, still holding a commanding, eight-run lead. Just one more inning to go.
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With the crowd chanting his name, Julio Rodriguez hit a ball 368 feet … to the wrong part of the park. Instead of a third straight homer, it’s the second out of the inning.
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Cal Raleigh makes it back-to-back homers with Yariel Rodríguez on the mound. Is the comeback on? Probably not, but the home crowd is having fun again.
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Randy Arozarena smacks his first home run of the postseason (just nine more to go to match his postseason career high). The deficit is now nine runs. Carry on.
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Luke Jackson works around the leadoff double, striking out Daulton Varsho to end a scoreless inning. To the bottom of the eighth we go.
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Vlad Guerrero Jr., who is a triple shy of the cycle, hits another double to center field to begin the Blue Jays’ half of the eighth.
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Luke Jackson is in on the mound for the Mariners after Caleb Ferguson’s two innings of work.
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That’s officially a sellout crowd at Seattle’s T-Mobile Park — but the stands look a little bit more empty as this Blue Jays blowout continues.
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That’s eight strikeouts for Shane Bieber, with the veteran starter holding the Mariners to only four hits and those two first-inning runs.
During the inning break, Seattle fans are starting to file back into the concourse — but several look like they won’t be coming back.
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Alejandro Kirk’s three-run bomb brings Toronto’s lead to double digits, as the Blue Jays continue to destroy Seattle at home.