TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Dylan Cease struck out eight in six innings, George Springer was 4 for 4 with a home run, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Seattle Mariners 8-1 on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Cease (9-5), who gave up four hits, one run and a walk, now has 217 strikeouts to lead the AL. The only pitcher in the majors with more is Milwaukee’s Jacob Misiorowski with 222.<\/p>\n
Cease is 5-1 with a 1.48 ERA in his past 10 starts, including two wins over the Mariners.<\/p>\n
Springer, who scored three runs, singled in the first inning, doubled in the third, hit his 14th homer in the fifth and singled in the seventh. Springer hit a memorable homer the last time Toronto hosted Seattle, a three-run shot to put the Blue Jays ahead in Game 7 of the 2025 ALCS.<\/p>\n
Kazuma Okamoto and Nathan Lukes added homers for the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n
Okamoto connected off Seranthony Dom\u00ednguez in the sixth, extending his Blue Jays rookie record total to 27. Lukes homered in the fifth.<\/p>\n
Dominic Canzone hit his 20th home run of the season in the first, but the Mariners lost their second straight. Seattle is 27-40 on the road.<\/p>\n
Seattle starter Emerson Hancock (7-8) allowed five runs and eight hits in five innings.<\/p>\n
After Toronto’s Brett Bateman opened the bottom of the first with a single, Hancock appeared shaken up when he chased down Lukes’ grounder and stretched to tag the leaping outfielder.<\/p>\n
Hancock stayed in, but Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit an RBI double, Springer singled and Jes\u00fas S\u00e1nchez was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Guerrero scored on Okamoto’s sacrifice fly and Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez added an RBI single.<\/p>\n
Toronto is 38-13 this season when scoring five or more.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
RHP Jos\u00e9 Soriano (10-7, 3.43 ERA) is scheduled to start for the Blue Jays on Saturday against Mariners LHP Kade Anderson (0-0, 4.76).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Dylan Cease struck out eight in six innings, George Springer was 4 for 4 with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,2323,2314,2317,2313,2413,76,764,311,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,8678,619,65,70,93,1039],"class_list":["post-792041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-events","tag-baseball-finals","tag-baseball-games","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-champion-seasons-in-major-league-baseball","tag-dylan-cease","tag-emerson-hancock","tag-george-springer","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-nathan-lukes","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-vladimir-guerrero-jr","tag-world-series"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}