Jays hope to stave off elimination in Game 6 of ALCS against Mariners

The Toronto Blue Jays entered the American League Championship Series (ALCS) fully embracing the team's "Want It All" slogan.

They'll need to beat the Seattle Mariners tonight and again tomorrow at Rogers Centre for that rallying cry to remain possible.

Despite outhitting the Mariners 44-36 and outscoring them 27-25 over the first five games, the Blue Jays trail the best-of-seven ALCS 3-2.

Despite winning two of three games at T-Mobile Park in Seattle to dig themselves out of a 2-0 hole, the Jays can't afford another setback if they hope to push the series to a winner-take-all Game 7.

Blue Jays rookie right-hander Trey Yesavage will be on the mound tonight. He allowed five runs over four innings as Toronto fell to Seattle 10-3 in Game 2 on Monday in Toronto.

Jays slugger George Springer will be back in the lineup for Game 6 after he was hit on the knee by a pitch and forced to leave Game 5.

After the game, Blue Jays manager John Schneider told reporters Springer had "a right-knee contusion," but said that Springer was tough and that he'd have to be "really hurting" not to be in the lineup Sunday.

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Seattle's first-round pick in the 2018 MLB draft, right-hander Logan Gilbert, will start for the Mariners and he is aiming to lead his team to its first World Series appearance in franchise history.

Seattle won the first two games in Toronto, while the Jays the next two in Seattle by scores of 13-4 and 8-2, before losing 6-2 in Friday's Game 5, even though they had a one-run lead and the score was 2-1 heading into the eighth inning.

The winner of the ALCS will go on to face the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series.

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