Polanco keeps rolling as Mariners take both games in Toronto - ESPN

TORONTO — Julio Rodriguez and Jorge Polanco hit three-run homers, Josh Naylor added a two-run drive and the Seattle Mariners took a 2-0 lead in the AL Championship Series by routing the Toronto Blue Jays 10-3 on Monday.

Seattle, the only big league team never to make a World Series, heads home for Wednesday's Game 3 needing two more wins in the best-of-seven series to end that drought.

Toronto had just six hits, only one after the second inning, and had eight hits in the first two games. Blue Jays star Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was 0-for-3 with a walk and is hitless in the series.

Rodriguez homered for a 3-0 lead three batters in against rookie Trey Yesavage, a 22-year-old making just his fifth big league start.

Nathan Lukes and Alejandro Kirk had RBI singles in the bottom of the first inning off Logan Gilbert, and Nathan Lukes' run-scoring single tied the score in the second.

Polanco's three-run homer off Louis Varland put Seattle back ahead 6-3 in the fifth. J.P. Crawford added an RBI single in the sixth, and Naylor had a two-run homer in the seventh against Braydon Fisher.

Six of Polanco's first seven hits this postseason drove in runs. He had the game-ending single in the 15th inning of Friday's Division Series clincher against Detroit. He went 2-for-4 with two RBIs in Seattle's 3-1 opening ALCS win. Polanco's two previous home runs this October came off Detroit's Tarik Skubal, the reigning AL Cy Young Award winner.

The roof was open on a breezy 62-degree day on the Canadian Thanksgiving holiday, but the sellout crowd of 44,814 had little to celebrate.

Seattle's bullpen has combined for nine scoreless innings in the series, allowing just one hit. Winner Eduard Bazardo, Carlos Vargas and Emerson Hancock each pitched two