The Toronto Blue Jays now know who the club’s playoff opponent will be on Friday at the Rogers Centre.
The Seattle Mariners will be heading to Toronto to deal with the Blue Jays in the first recreation of the greatest-of-a few wild-card playoff sequence.
The Mariners defeated the Detroit Tigers 7-6 in 10 innings tonight, and then the Boston Crimson Sox defeat the Tampa Bay Rays 6- in a game referred to as soon after 5 innings because of rain.
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The Rays, who finished in the 3rd and final wild-card place, will enjoy the AL Central-profitable Cleveland Guardians in a greatest-of-3 series.
The Blue Jays experienced a 2-5 record from the Mariners this time, like a 4-recreation Seattle sweep in July. The two groups have not played every single other given that.
That series and losing streak led to the eventual firing of now-former supervisor Charlie Montoyo and the advertising of John Schneider, who has considering that guided the Blue Jays to a 45-27 file.
The very best-of-3 collection will start on Friday. Blue Jays starter and AL Cy Younger hopeful Alek Manoah is expected to get the begin in Sport 1.
Even though not nevertheless formal, Toronto will probably go with a a few-gentleman rotation of Manoah, Kevin Gausman and Ross Stripling. It’s unclear who the Mariners will counter with on the mound.
It has been a historically sizeable year in Seattle as the Mariners clinched a playoff location for the 1st time since 2001, a campaign in which the club gained 116 video games.
The Mariners, now 88-72, roster previous Blue Jays starter and reigning AL Cy Youthful winner Robbie Ray, who signed with the club as a absolutely free agent final winter. Along with Ray, the Mariners boast a talented starting up rotation that consists of trade deadline acquisition Luis Castillo and Logan Gilbert.
The 21-yr-aged sensation and very likely AL Rookie of the Calendar year Julio Rodriguez is yet another player to glance out for as he heads to Toronto in the midst of concluding a huge very first time in the significant leagues with 27 house runs, 74 RBIs and 25 stolen bases.
