Toronto — Vladimir Guerrero Jr.Hit his sixth home run in the postseason, the rookie trey yesways Scored seven runs in 5⅔ innings and toronto blue jays Forced to make it to Game 7 in the American League Championship Series seattle mariners 6-2 On Sunday night.
The series will be decided Monday night in Toronto, the second Game 7 in Blue Jays history. Toronto lost to Kansas City in the 1985 ALCS.
Seattle, the only major league team without a pennant, will play in a postseason Game 7 for the first time. The winner will face the NL champion los angeles dodgers In the World Series starting Friday.
The Blue Jays forced three double plays behind the Yesways, two of which were saves to avoid a bases-loaded jam. This made Toronto the first team to induce consecutive bases-loaded, inning-ending double plays in post-season games. They are only the fourth team to play in the same game twice in the postseason.
Toronto also took advantage of Seattle’s season-high three errors. By comparison, the Blue Jays have committed four errors in 10 playoff games.
Guerrero’s sixth career postseason homer – all this year – tied him with Jose Bautista and Joe Carter for the most in Blue Jays history. Bautista threw the ceremonial first pitch before the game.
addison barger Scored three runs and drove in three runs for the Blue Jays, who had lost their previous four games, facing postseason elimination. This streak extended to Game 5 of the 2016 ALCS against Cleveland and included wild-card losses to Tampa Bay in 2020, Seattle in 2022, and Minnesota in 2023.
Guerrero’s leadoff homer in the fifth made it 5–0 and chased down the Mariners’ starter logan gilbertThe right-hander gave up five runs, four earned and seven hits in four innings.
Yesvez, 22, took the shutout in the sixth. He was charged with two runs and six hits, five of which were singles. Five of his strikeouts came on his split-finger fastball, along with both double-play grounders with the bases loaded.
The rookie threw a season-high 31 splitters. He got 10 whiffs on splitters and five more on sliders.
“He brings energy. He’s young. He wants to win so badly,” Guerrero said.
Three of Yeshiva’s six major league starts have come in the playoffs. They have won twice in three games this postseason after winning one out of three in the regular season.
Yesavage said, “I just had confidence in myself. I know my stuff works at this level.” “I know the defense behind me is going to play to the best of its ability, and to get three double plays in three consecutive innings was huge.”
The Mariners used two walks and a single to load the bases against the Yesways in the third, but were denied when the slugger was out. cal raleigh Entered into a 3-6-1 double play. Raleigh’s first-pitch grounder came off his bat at 101 mph.
Raleigh finished 0-3 with three strikeouts.
Seattle came up empty again with another bases-loaded opportunity in the fourth. JP Crawford Entered a 4-6-3 double play.
The Mariners entered the sixth inning and chased the Yesways. Josh NaylorThe solo shot was his third home run of the playoffs. After this Yesways went out Randy ArozarenaBase hit of, and eugenio suarez welcomed louis verland With an RBI single.
Toronto took advantage of fielding mistakes julio rodriguez to center field and Suarez at third base to score twice in the second, when Barger and Isia Kiner-Falefa There were RBI singles.
ernie clement He hit a two-out triple off the left field wall in the third and scored when Barger homered, his second of the postseason.
george springer Started at designated hitter for the Blue Jays and went 0-for-4 with a walk. Springer exited the loss in the seventh inning of Game 5 in Seattle on Friday when he was hit in his right knee by a 95.6 mph pitch. brian woo,
Guerrero was hit by a pitch from a Seattle reliever matt brash In the seventh. Guerrero moved to second place alejandro kirkHe was single and leading on a wild pitch when he scored on Raleigh’s throwing error.
