The city of Toronto is preparing for Game 1 of the ALCS between the Blue Jays and Mariners tonight, with first pitch scheduled for 8:03pm ET at Rogers Centre. <\/p>\n
On Friday, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment announced that it was \u201cmoving the time\u201d of the Maple Leafs\u2019 game against the Red Wings on Monday to 2pm from 4pm \u201cto avoid conflicting with the Jays\u2019 game later that afternoon, adding that fans can stick around after the hockey game to watch the Jays on the jumbotron at Scotiabank Arena.\u201d ALCS Game 2 is set to start at 5:03pm (GLOBE & MAIL, 10\/11<\/a>).<\/p>\n Blue Jays gear is \u201cflying off the shelves from Windsor to Ottawa.\u201d Shortly after Game 1 tickets went on sale on Thursday morning, the \u201ccheapest available on StubHub, a standing-room-only seat, was going for $455.\u201d The Blue Jays will \u201calso be putting general admission, standing-room-only tickets on sale at an unspecified time.\u201d Rogers is \u201calso giving away 500 tickets to every post-season home game\u201d (TORONTO STAR, 10\/11<\/a>). <\/p>\n The TORONTO STAR goes with the header, \u201cWest Coast Blue Jays fans debate trip to Seattle for ALCS amid tensions with U.S.\u201d Blue Jays fans \u201calways show up when they play the Mariners in Seattle.\u201d But ahead of the ALCS matchup, some are \u201cmore hesitant this time around\u201d (TORONTO STAR, 10\/11<\/a>).<\/p>\n After their 15-inning ALDS Game 5 win on Friday, the Mariners\u2019 \u201ctwo charter planes — one for the players, big-league staff and front office, and another for families and remaining staff — were delayed getting out of Seattle by a couple of hours Saturday.\u201d The plane with families and staff \u201cactually left before the plane that was booked for the players\u201d (SEATTLE TIMES, 10\/11<\/a>).<\/p>\n The Mariners\u2019 game on Friday lasted four hours and 58 minutes and was the \u201clongest winner-take-all postseason game in major-league history\u201d (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 10\/11<\/a>). A \u201chistoric win\u201d prompted a sold-out T-Mobile Park of 47,025 fans to \u201cleap to their feet and cheer at the top of their lungs\u201d (SEATTLE TIMES, 10\/10<\/a>). The SEATTLE TIMES goes with the header, \u201cMariners\u2019 historic win caused a \u2018little earthquake,\u2019 seismologist says\u201d (SEATTLE TIMES, 10\/11<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city of Toronto is preparing for Game 1 of the ALCS between the Blue Jays and Mariners…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,81630,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-207962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fan-experience","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}