{"id":226013,"date":"2025-10-20T03:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T03:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/226013\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T03:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T03:55:06","slug":"addison-barger-trey-yesavage-help-toronto-blue-jays-force-game-7-with-win-over-seattle-mariners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/226013\/","title":{"rendered":"Addison Barger, Trey Yesavage help Toronto Blue Jays force Game 7 with win over Seattle Mariners"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2014 Addison Barger<\/a> and Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/a> homered to power the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> to a 6-2 win over the Seattle Mariners<\/a> on Sunday in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series. <\/p>\n

The result sets up a decisive Game 7 on Monday night at Rogers Centre. The winner will meet the Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> in the World Series.<\/p>\n

Blue Jays starter Trey Yesavage (2-1) had seven strikeouts over 5 2\/3 innings. He allowed two earned runs, three walks and six hits before leaving to a standing ovation from the sellout crowd of 44,764.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays tagged Seattle starter Logan Gilbert<\/a> (1-1) for a pair of runs in the second inning and tacked on two more in the third when Barger went deep.<\/p>\n

Gilbert was pulled after Guerrero led off the fifth inning with a solo shot. Josh Naylor<\/a> of Mississauga, Ont., hit a solo homer in Seattle\u2019s two-run sixth. <\/p>\n

Guerrero scored again in the seventh after a wild pitch by Matt Brash<\/a> of Kingston, Ont. Guerrero broke for third base and a throwing error by catcher Cal Raleigh<\/a> allowed him to trot home. <\/p>\n

Blue Jays reliever Louis Varland<\/a> recorded four outs and closer Jeff Hoffman<\/a> worked the last two innings.<\/p>\n

The road team won the first four games of the series before Seattle beat Toronto 6-2 on Friday at T-Mobile Park.<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays are looking to make their first World Series appearance since 1993. The Mariners have never reached the Fall Classic.<\/p>\n

TAKEAWAYS <\/p>\n

Blue Jays: After a quiet offensive night in Game 5, Toronto took control early with timely hitting and quality defence. The Blue Jays outhit the Mariners 11-7 and made three double-plays to snuff potential rallies.<\/p>\n

Mariners: Three errors proved costly for Seattle and the Mariners\u2019 big guns were silenced. The top three batters in the order did not have a hit and Raleigh struck out three times.<\/p>\n

KEY MOMENT <\/p>\n

With Raleigh at the plate in the third inning with the bases loaded and one out, the Blue Jays turned a slick 3-6-1 double-play.<\/p>\n

KEY STAT<\/p>\n

It was Toronto\u2019s first home playoff win over the Mariners in five head-to-head meetings.<\/p>\n

COMING UP <\/p>\n

Shane Bieber<\/a> was expected to start Game 7 for Toronto. George Kirby<\/a> is expected to start for the Mariners.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 19, 2025.<\/p>\n

Gregory Strong, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Addison Barger and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homered to power the Toronto Blue Jays to a 6-2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,100383,82,75156],"class_list":["post-226013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-seattle-mariners-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-236","tag-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-238"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226013","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=226013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}