Last Night in Baseball: The Blue Jays Came to Play in Game 3
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There were two important things to consider when it came to the Mariners going up 2-0 in the ALCS. The first: it was just two games. The second? The Blue Jays are a great baseball team. The Mariners are, too, and Game 3 was the Jays getting back up off of the floor to hit back.
Toronto would end up winning, 13-4, dominating nearly the entire way through — half of Seattle’s runs were scored in the eighth, well after the Jays had made it clear that, barring one of the great all-time postseason comebacks, this one was their dub.
While the Mariners scored early and first with a 2-run dinger from Julio Rodríguez in the first, that was it for their scoring for the next seven frames. Toronto would respond in the third, with Andres Gimenes hitting a 2-run home run, then George Kirby uncorking a wild pitch with the bases loaded to give the Jays the lead.
Daulton Varsho would then double in Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Alejandro Kirk to put Toronto up 5-2, and that would end up being the game-winner. There was a lot of game left to go, though. George Springer would go yard in the fourth, then Guerrero would hit his own in the fifth, giving the Jays a 7-2 lead before an Ernie Clement single made it 8-3.
Nathan Lukes would make it 9-2 on a ground out in the sixth, with Kirk following that with a genuine big blast, a 3-run bomb that scored Springer and Guerrero.
While the Mariners would plate two runs on back-to-back home runs by Randy Arozarena and Cal Raleigh, Toronto answered