{"id":221442,"date":"2025-10-18T04:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T04:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/221442\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T04:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T04:54:07","slug":"blue-jays-lose-to-mariners-6-2-in-alcs-game-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/221442\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays lose to Mariners 6-2 in ALCS Game 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Toronto Blue Jays return home facing elimination, as the Seattle Mariners rallied to an emotional 6-2 victory on Friday to steal back the momentum in their American League Championship Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Jays led for much of Game 5 \u2013 oh-so-close to a third straight road win \u2013 before Seattle clubbed two late-game home runs that shook T-Mobile Park to steal the game and a 3-2 lead in the series as it swings back to Toronto.<\/p>\n

Cal Raleigh slugged the game-tying shot in the eighth, before Eugenio Su\u00e1rez clubbed the go-ahead grand slam \u2013 his second homer of the night.<\/p>\n

The loss wasn\u2019t the most concerning thing that happened for the Jays though. George Springer was forced to leave the game after taking a pitch off his kneecap.<\/p>\n

Earlier: Blue Jays tap Gausman for second ALCS start in Game 5<\/a><\/p>\n

Toronto manager John Schneider said Springer suffered a knee contusion, and that immediate X-rays on the knee were negative.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cGeorge is about as tough as they come,\u201d said Schneider. \u201cI think he\u2019ll have to really, really be hurting to not be in the lineup on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the third game in a row, the Mariners took the first lead of the game on a solo homer \u2013 on this occasion by Su\u00e1rez, fired deep over the left centre-field wall as Seattle fans thrust their gold tridents into the air.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays put several men on base in the early innings but left all of them stranded. <\/p>\n

Toronto\u2019s most agonizing squandered scoring opportunity was when it loaded the bases in the fourth inning \u2013 with no outs. Daulton Varsho then struck out, and Ernie Clement flubbed a hit just inches from the plate that allowed Raleigh to simply step on home plate, then toss to first for a double play. <\/p>\n

The Jays finally tied the game when Springer doubled to push Addison Barger across the plate.<\/p>\n

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Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Kevin Gausman leaves the games during the sixth inning of Friday’s game.Abbie Parr\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Mariners starter Bryce Miller got the early hook in the fifth inning after putting a man on. He allowed four hits, two walks and struck out four.<\/p>\n

Kevin Gausman, in his second start of the series for Toronto, pitched 5 2\/3 innings, allowing four hits, one run, while striking out four and walking three.<\/p>\n

The Mariners brought in all-star pitcher Bryan Woo from the bullpen for his first appearance in this post-season, a starter making his highly anticipated return from injury.<\/p>\n

The Jays banged Woo around quickly \u2013 first a double by Alejandro Kirk, then a Clement single to bring him home for the go-ahead run.<\/p>\n

Springer left the game in the seventh inning after Woo drilled him in the right kneecap with a 95.6-mile-per-hour sinker. The Jays\u2019 designated hitter writhed in pain and tried to run it off, before surrendering to the dugout.<\/p>\n

The manager voiced his distaste for the booing.<\/p>\n

\u201cA guy gets hit in the knee and is in obvious pain and you have 40,000 people cheering,\u201d said Schneider. \u201cNot the right thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cathal Kelly: In the Blue Jays\u2019 playoff run, Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez is their biggest difference maker<\/a><\/p>\n

The Jays had to make some quick lineup changes after Springer went down \u2013 Joey Loperfido in for Springer, Nathan Lukes to right field, Myles Straw to left.<\/p>\n

Toronto clung to that one-run lead late into the eighth before Raleigh clocked a game-tying solo shot out of the yard off Brendon Little to elate the Seattle fan base, include the Raleigh lovers wearing fake moustaches.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my mind, an easy MVP choice and today was just another perfect example of that,\u201d said Seattle Manager Dan Miller of his slugging catcher.<\/p>\n

Then the Suarez slam off Seranthony Dom\u00ednguez was a death blow.\u00a0The Mariners dugout bounced in celebration.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe stadium has waited like 26 innings for that,\u201d said Raleigh. \u201cThat was one of the loudest moments I\u2019ve heard here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Toronto will play host to Game 6 on Sunday, and also Game 7 if needed on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe still have home field advantage,\u201d said Schneider. \u201cIt\u2019s a seven-game series, and we did our job coming in here taking two out of three, and we\u2019re going to go home and we\u2019re going to definitely be ready to play.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays return home facing elimination, as the Seattle Mariners rallied to an emotional 6-2 victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101688,1397,1513,95509,106398,101687,106397,43,513,56605,44,41,39,42,40,8023],"class_list":["post-221442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alcs","tag-appwebview","tag-blue-jays","tag-blue-jays-highlights","tag-blue-jays-lineup","tag-blue-jays-vs-mariners","tag-game-5","tag-headlines","tag-mariners","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-topstory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221442","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=221442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}