Toronto Blue Jays (94-68, first in the AL East during the regular season) vs. Seattle Mariners (90-72, first in the AL West during the regular season)<\/p>\n
Seattle; Thursday, 8:33 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
PITCHING PROBABLES: Blue Jays: Max Scherzer (5-5, 5.19 ERA, 1.29 WHIP, 82 strikeouts); Mariners: Luis Castillo (11-8, 3.54 ERA, 1.19 WHIP, 162 strikeouts)<\/p>\n
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BOTTOM LINE: The Seattle Mariners and the Toronto Blue Jays play in Game 4 of the ALCS. The Mariners are ahead 2-1 in the series.<\/p>\n
Seattle has a 90-72 record overall and a 51-30 record in home games. The Mariners rank third in the majors with 238 total home runs, averaging 1.5 per game.<\/p>\n
Toronto has a 40-41 record on the road and a 94-68 record overall. Blue Jays hitters have a collective .333 on-base percentage, the best percentage in the AL.<\/p>\n
The matchup Thursday is the 10th meeting between these teams this season. The Blue Jays have a 5-4 advantage in the season series.<\/p>\n
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TOP PERFORMERS: Josh Naylor has 29 doubles, a triple and 20 home runs for the Mariners. Jorge Polanco is 10 for 38 with a double and four home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Mariners: 5-5, .214 batting average, 4.27 ERA, outscored by eight runs<\/p>\n
Blue Jays: 7-3, .301 batting average, 4.15 ERA, outscored opponents by 30 runs<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Mariners: Jackson Kowar: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Trent Thornton: 60-Day IL (achilles), Gregory Santos: 60-Day IL (knee), Ryan Bliss: 60-Day IL (biceps)<\/p>\n
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Blue Jays: Anthony Santander: day-to-day (back), Jose Berrios: 15-Day IL (elbow), Ty France: 10-Day IL (oblique), Bo Bichette: 10-Day IL (knee), Robinson Pina: 60-Day IL (elbow), Nick Sandlin: 60-Day IL (elbow), Yimi Garcia: 60-Day IL (ankle), Bowden Francis: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Ryan Burr: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Angel Bastardo: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Blue Jays (94-68, first in the AL East during the regular season) vs. Seattle Mariners (90-72, first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[7238,7203,7239,49,48,104741,104742,69525,14576,13992,96003,14575,462,104743,104744,7240,470,82,507,31381,27677],"class_list":["post-216860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-anthony-santander","tag-bo-bichette","tag-bowden-francis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-gregory-santos","tag-jackson-kowar","tag-jorge-polanco","tag-jose-berrios","tag-josh-naylor","tag-luis-castillo","tag-max-scherzer","tag-mlb","tag-nick-sandlin","tag-ryan-bliss","tag-ryan-burr","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-trent-thornton","tag-ty-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216860","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=216860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}