10/19/25

(Toronto, ON) Sunday night presented a chance for the Seattle Mariners to make history. For the first time ever, a win would send the Mariners to the World Series and that would mean every team in Major League Baseball would have played in a Fall Classic. For the Toronto Blue Jays, they would have their season on the line on their home field looking to extend the series to a Game 7 on Monday.

A rematch from Game 2 would take place on the mound. Logan Gilbert, Seattle’s Opening Day starter, would look to erase his rough outing when he didn’t make it to the 4th but was bailed out by his offense. Seattle’s offense in that game came against rookie Trey Yesavage who would look to rebound himself in the biggest start of his young career.

Blue Jays 6, Mariners 2 (Game Six, Series Tied 3-3)

Neither team could strike in the 1st inning but Trey Yesavage rolled through the 2nd, striking out the side while Seattle and Logan Gilbert faltered. A base hit for Daulton Varsho to begin the bottom of the 2nd turned into more as Julio Rodríguez allowed the ball to get away from him which let Varsho reach second on the error. Ernie Clement chopped one over to third where Eugenio Suárez couldn’t handle it as another error put another Jay on base. Addison Barger began his day with a base hit to right and Varsho scored for the first run of the game. Isiah Kiner-Falefa followed with a single to bring home Clement to make it 2-0. While Gilbert walked Nathan Lukes, he got a couple strikeouts to keep the bases loaded with two outs but Vladimir Guerrero Jr. coming to the plate. He pulled a grounder but a diving stop by Geno saved a couple of runs and ended the inning with the score 2-0.

Seattle put together their first good threat in the top of the 3rd. J.P. Crawford began the inning with a walk to become the first Mariner to reach base. Leo Rivas followed a Dominic Canzone strikeout with a shot off the top of the wall that just turned into a single as Crawford had a mental lapse on-base. J-Rod would draw a walk to load the bases for the Mariners MVP candidate in Cal Raleigh. The Big Dumper was eager to make something happened and jumped on the first pitch, but his hard grounder went right to Vladdy at first. A 3-6-1 double play would kill that momentum as the M’s were held off the board.

Logan Gilbert looked like he settled in for the top of the 3rd, retiring the first two batters he faced. Ernie Clement put some pressure on Gilbert with a deep drive to left field. Randy Arozarena jumped at the fence but it hit well too high for him to make the play. It turned into a triple to extend the inning for Addison Barger and he extended the lead. An 0-1 slider hung at the bottom of the zone and Barger clobbered it to right for a two-run blast. Just like that the Blue Jays were starting to pull away with a 4-0 lead.

In the top of the 4th, Seattle once again made some noise with the bats and put some pressure on the Toronto rookie. Back-to-back one out singles by Josh Naylor and Randy Arozarena put two on for Geno. A wild pitch moved the runners up, but Suárez walked anyway to load the bases with one out  for the second consecutive inning. This one ended the same as J.P. Crawford sent a grounder to second for an easy 4-6-3 inning ending double play to squander yet another bases loaded opportunity.

The 4th would be Logan Gilbert’s first clean inning but the 5th wasn’t as kind to him. The first batter of the inning would be Vladdy Jr. and he continued his historic postseason and ended Gilbert’s night in the process. A solo bomb to left cleared the bullpen for Guerrero’s sixth home run of the postseason and brought the Mariner bullpen into the game with Toronto leading 5-0.

Finally, Seattle would get on the board in the top of the 6th. With Trey Yesavage still in, Josh Naylor came to the plate with nobody on and two outs and gave Seattle some life. A mammoth solo blast to right would get M’s on the board trailing 5-1. Louis Varland came on after Randy Arozarena singled to get Yesavage out of the game. On a 3-2 pitch to Geno with Arozarena on the move, a soft line drive down the right field line gave the M’s an opening. Arozarena flew around the bases and scored all the way from first on the single and the M’s were back in the game, trailing 5-2.

After Eduard Bazardo dominated his two innings of work, Matt Brash came on with the score still 5-2 for the 7th. After hitting Vladdy with one out, Brash would leave a slider over the plate and Alejandro Kirk shot one back up the middle for a base hit to put two on with one out. A wild pitch by Brash allowed both runners to move up, but Cal Raleigh tried to make a play and throw out Vladdy at third. His throw would instead get into left field, allowing Guerrero to score and adding onto the Toronto lead making it 6-2.

Toronto’s closer Jeff Hoffman came in to face the meat of the Mariners order in the 8th and sat them down 1-2-3 and that allowed John Schneider to keep him out for the 9th. Needing a big comeback, Seattle didn’t get off to a good start as Arozarena and Suárez both went down on strikes for two quick outs. J.P. Crawford kept hope alive with a two-out walk but Dominic Canzone’s postseason struggles continued. A routine pop-up to third put this one away as the M’s missed their chance to avoid a winner-take-all game 7 by dropping game 6 by a final score of 6-2.

Notable Performances

Mariners

Blue Jays

• Addison Barger- 2-3, HR, 3 RBI, R, BB
• Vladimir Guerrero Jr.- 2-4, HR, RBI, 2 R, HBP
• Trey Yesavage (Win)- 5.2 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 3 BB, 7 SO

What’s Next

With the result on Sunday night, the entire season for both the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays come down to game 7 on Monday night at 5:08pm. Winner-take-all for the second consecutive series for the Mariners but this time they will be on the road as the Rogers Centre will be extremely rowdy to see who advances to face the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series.

Once again, we will have a rematch for the starters as George Kirby and Shane Bieber face-off like they did in Seattle in game 3. Bieber got the better of Kirby in that one as George was roughed up, allowing eight runs on eight hits in just four innings, including three home runs. Bieber was lights out and allowed just two runs and four hits over six innings with eight strikeouts. The biggest game in Mariners history goes down on Monday night as two teams slug it out over nine (maybe more) innings for the right to advance to the Fall Classic.

MLB Playoff Schedule Monday Night

• Seattle Mariners @ Toronto Blue Jays (Game 7, 5:08pm)- George Kirby (0-1, 7.07 ERA) vs. Shane Bieber (1-0, 4.15 ERA)

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