The veteran southpaw gave up six hits and four earned runs with four strikeouts. Hernandez belted a first-pitch fastball over the wall in the fourth inning to end Ray's day. Vladimir Guerrero Jr., scorched a single up the middle to make it 3-0. He gave up another leadoff double in the third as Espinal stroked a pitch into the left-field corner. He was booed before the game and fans derisively chanted his first name at times. Ray inked a long-term deal with the Mariners after winning the AL Cy Young Award last year with Toronto. Kirk led off with a double and Hernandez launched a rainbow blast for his first career playoff homer. The spark carried over into the bottom half of the frame. He timed a jump perfectly to snag a liner from Frazier and Gausman followed with two strikeouts. He got some defensive help from Bichette, who made a stellar catch in the second inning that put a charge into the crowd of 47,156.
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He showed no ill effects in the late-afternoon start and was in full control in the early going. Gausman left his last regular-season start after three innings with a cut on the middle finger of his throwing hand. Former Blue Jays left-hander Robbie Ray lasted three-plus frames in his first start in Toronto since signing with Seattle in the off-season. Jansen had three hits and drove in two runs for the Blue Jays while Santiago Espinal and Alejandro Kirk added two hits apiece.īlue Jays starter Kevin Gausman turned in a decent start that lasted 5 2/3 innings. Raleigh scored three runs and had three of Seattle's 13 hits. The Mariners and Houston Astros will open the best-of-five American League Division Series on Tuesday in Texas. The Blue Jays were swept by Tampa Bay in the wild-card round in 2020 and missed the post-season last year.
Right now it's just tough, but the guys are going to be better for it." "A group that's going to be together for a while. The Blue Jays were left to console each other with hugs and well-wishes in their locker-room. "There's a certain resolve that our group has. We haven't quit all year," said Mariners manager Scott Servais. The Mariners partied on the infield with family members and team officials for more than an hour after the game. George Kirby earned the save to seal Seattle's two-game sweep. Bounces don't go your way all the time."Ĭal Raleigh doubled off Romano in the ninth inning and scored the go-ahead run when Adam Frazier lashed a two-out double into the right-field corner. "That ball, two feet farther back it's probably caught and two feet in and it's caught," Romano said. Manager John Schneider said Springer spoke to his teammates after the game and will be OK, but did not provide injury details.
Springer was shaken up on the play and was later taken off the field on a golf cart. Three runs scored on the play as the Seattle dugout erupted at their good fortune. Shortstop Bo Bichette ran into shallow centre field as George Springer sprinted in and they collided as the ball found the turf. Crawford lifted a bases-loaded blooper in the eighth off Romano that brought the Mariners all the way back. But Carlos Santana hit a three-run shot in the sixth inning and J.P. Hernandez hit two homers to help power the Blue Jays to their big early lead. "There's nothing I can say that's going to make me feel better for a while."
"It's really hard," said Blue Jays slugger Teoscar Hernandez. Instead of planning for a decisive Game 3 on Sunday, it was a two-and-out playoff exit for the Blue Jays for the second time in three years. "It was a heavyweight match that was just back and forth," said Blue Jays catcher Danny Jansen. But it fell apart in remarkable fashion as the Mariners used two four-run frames to tie the game before adding another run in the ninth inning for a 10-9 win. Jordan Romano sat in his chair and slowly let out an expletive before untying his cleats.Īn air of stunned resignation hung in the air Saturday night as the Toronto Blue Jays tried to absorb a wild-card series elimination none of them saw coming.Īrmed with a seven-run lead and a boisterous sellout crowd, a Game 2 victory seemed to be in the bag when Toronto led Seattle 8-1 after five innings. Alek Manoah gazed into his locker-room stall with a despondent look.
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