SEATTLE \u2014 The Seattle Mariners are one win away from a berth in the 2025 World Series.<\/p>\n
The Mariners scored five runs in the eighth inning to defeat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-2 on Friday night at T-Mobile Park to take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven American League Championship Series.<\/p>\n
With the Jays leading 2-1 heading into the home half of the eighth inning, Seattle star Cal Raleigh tied the game with a solo home run off reliever Brendon Little to tie the game 2-2.<\/p>\n
Then with the bases loaded Eugenio Suarez hit his second homer of the night off reliever Seranthony Dominguez to give the Mariners a 6-2 lead.<\/p>\n
Ernie Clement\u2019s RBI single in the sixth inning off Mariners\u2019 reliever Bryan Woo scored Alejandro Kirk from second base to snap a 1-1 tie and give the Jays a 2-1 lead. Kirk led off the inning with a double.<\/p>\n
Suarez hit a second-inning solo home run off Blue Jays\u2019 starter Kevin Gausman to give the Mariners an early 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
The Jays load the bases in top of fourth with none out \u2014 Nathan Lukes hit a double, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was intentionally walked, and Kirk walked. But Daulton Varsho struck out and Clement grounded into a double play to end the inning.<\/p>\n
George Springer\u2019s long double off Mariners\u2019 reliever Matt Brash of Kingston, Ont., scored Addison Barger in the top of fifth to tie the game 1-1.<\/p>\n
Mariners starter Bryce Miller worked four innings of four-hit ball, giving up one run and two walks. He had four strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Kevin Gausman worked 5 2\/3 innings, gave up three hits, one run, three walks and had four strikeouts. Louis Varland worked 1 1\/3 innings of no-hit ball, before Little and Dominguez collectively gave up two hits and five runs.<\/p>\n
Mariners starter Bryce Miller worked four innings of four-hit ball, giving up one run and two walks. He had four strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Game 6 is Sunday night at Rogers Centre in Toronto. Right-handed rookie Trey Yesavage will start for the Jays, while the Mariners haven\u2019t named a starter yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 The Seattle Mariners are one win away from a berth in the 2025 World Series. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101688,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-221195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alcs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221195","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=221195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}