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TORONTO — For the 10th time, the American League Championship Series is going to a Game 7. And the Seattle Mariners can only hope the result is historic.
The Mariners will aim for the first AL pennant and World Series trip in their history, as they try to bounce back from a 6-2 loss in Game 6 and cash in the second of two tries they had to advance.
But the Toronto Blue Jays, for the moment, have the momentum in a series where that concept has proven elusive. They will start trade-deadline prize Shane Bieber in hopes of advancing to their first World Series since winning consecutive titles in 1992-93.
George Kirby will get the start for Seattle, but it’s almost certain that both starting pitchers will end up footnotes in this winner-take-all affair where almost every member of the clubs’ pitching staffs will be available.
Looking for an ALCS MVP? It just might be Blue Jays superstar Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who hit his third home run of the series in Game 6 and has nine hits in 22 at-bats.
For Seattle, 60-homer man Cal Raleigh will look to shake off a Game 6 in which he grounded into a key double play, struck out in another key spot and committed a throwing error that led to Toronto’s sixth run.
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What time is Mariners vs Blue Jays Game 7 tonight?
First pitch is scheduled for 8:10 p.m. ET in Toronto.
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Monday’s game is airing on Fox and can be streamed with Fubo.
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Julio Rodríguez (R) CFCal Raleigh (S) CJosh Naylor (L) 1BJorge Polanco (S) DHRandy Arozarena (R) LFEugenio Suárez (R) 3BJ.P. Crawford (L) SSLeo Rivas (S) 2BVictor Robles (R) RFGeorge Springer (R) DHNathan Lukes (L) LFVladimir Guerrero Jr. (R) 1BAlejandro Kirk (R) CDaulton Varsho (L) CFErnie Clement (R) 3BAddison Barger (L) RFIsiah Kiner-Falefa (R) 2BAndrés Giménez (L) SS
TORONTO – With a pair of home runs and a .960 OPS through six games, George Springer has stood tall in this American League Championship Series.
Except when he was down in the dirt, a 95-mph pitch from Seattle Mariners right-hander Bryan Woo drilling him directly in the right knee. Or, two nights later, when he came back for a game the Toronto Blue Jays had to win, took four plate appearances without incident, but then winced and hopped and grimaced through the searing pain in his fifth.
And now here he is, in a place so foreign to nearly every major leaguer but almost a second home for him: Game 7, the fifth in his career as he chases a second World Series title.
Said Springer: “This is what you want. I don’t think here’s anybody across the league that if you said in spring training, ‘Hey, you’re going to be in Game 7 of the ALCS,’ that you’re going to say, ‘Oh, man, no.’”
Bob Nightengale: Blue Jays 4, Mariners 3Gabe Lacques: Blue Jays 6, Mariners 4Jesse Yomtov: Blue Jays 5, Mariners 1Blue Jays championships: Toronto World Series wins
The Toronto Blue Jays won back-to-back World Series championships in 1992 and 1993.
They defeated the Atlanta Braves in six games in 1992 for their first title and then beat the Philadelphia Phillies in six to repeat, clinching on Joe Carter’s walk-off home run.
Game 1: Friday, Oct. 24Game 2: Saturday, Oct. 25Game 3: Monday, Oct. 27Game 4: Tuesday, Oct. 28*Game 5: Wednesday, Oct. 29*Game 6: Friday, Oct. 31*Game 7: Saturday, Nov. 1
ALCS Game 7 begins at 8:08 p.m. ET / 5:08 p.m. PT on Monday, Oct. 20
Shane Bieber takes the mound for the Blue Jays with George Kirby starting Game 7 for the Mariners in Toronto.
Mariners outfielder Julio Rodriguez has two homers, five RBIs and five walks so far in the ALCS.
“Tis is my first time being part of a Game 7, and they say in sports that there’s no better two words than that,” Rodriguez said before Game 7.
“We’ve got here by being who we are, by playing our baseball. I feel like that is something that you have to double down. There is no need to do more,” Rodriguez told reporters.
“I feel like everybody have been doing it the whole year, we’ve been playing baseball the whole year, preparing the whole year. And it came down to one game you just do one more of the same thing.”
ALCS Game 7 between the Mariners and Blue Jays begins at 5:10 p.m. PT.
Game 7 of the American League Championship Series is being played at Rogers Centre in Toronto, home of the Blue Jays. The stadium opened in 1989.
ALCS Game 7 is airing on Fox and can be streamed with Fubo on Monday night.
The Blue Jays acquired Shane Bieber from the Cleveland Guardians ahead of the trade deadline, the former Cy Young winner coming off 2024 Tomy John surgery.
He made sevven starts in the regular season for the Blue Jays, going 4-2 with a 3.57 ERA. In the postseason, Bieber has pitched twce, posting a 4.15 ERA (4 ER in 8.2 innings), including a win in Game 3 of the ALCS.