(Seattle) Slitter Santiago Espinal gave the team the lead with a single in the seventh inning, shortstop Jordan Romano broke the deadlock in the ninth, and the Toronto Blue Jays avoided a wide-ranging outrage on Sunday with a 4-3 victory over the Seattle Mariners.
The Mariners had runners on second and third base with one out in the second half of the ninth inning. However, Romano cleared out Julio Rodriguez with a slick ball before forcing Eugenio Suarez to hit a ball wide left.
Suddenly, Romano deserved his 27It is season rescue.
“It takes a certain mentality to do that in the middle of your slugging role,” Blue Jays manager John Schneider said of Romano.
“He really does seem to step up his game and never lose focus. he is one of the best [stoppeurs] in the league for a reason. »
On the offensive end, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Brandon Belt scored the second consecutive game.
In doing so, they helped their side bounce back after squandering the lead on Friday and Saturday en route to dropping a point.
Also, once again, the two clubs engaged in a heated battle. Of the last 11 games the Blue Jays and Mariners have met, 10 have been decided by a run or extra innings, including all six meetings between the two clubs this season.
“It’s been a fantastic series,” said Mariners manager Scott Servais.
“All games were decided on the last shot. Our guys really gave it their all. We would have liked a little more magic towards the end of the game. It just didn’t happen today. »
The Blue Jays’ decisive push began when Whit Merrifield started the seventh inning with a walk. He got to second base on a sacrifice hit by Daulton Varsho before scoring the Blue Jays’ fourth run off Espinal off Tayler Saucedo.
Guerrero Jr. made the Blue Jays tie the score at 2–2 in the fourth inning with a two-run slap that flew over the right field fence.
This was your 17It is home run of the season and his fourth in nine games since winning the home run contest in the Major League Baseball All-Star Game about two weeks ago in Seattle.
Belt gave the Blue Jays a 55-45 lead with his solo slap in the sixth inning. The ball first hit the glove of right-back Teoscar Hernandez, who had jumped in hoping to catch it.
It was Belt’s eighth home run of 2023.
The Mariners tied the score in their at-bat in the sixth on a single by pinch hitter Dylan Moore after two outs.
Mike Ford scored the first two runs of the game for the Mariners with a home run, his 11thIt is of the campaign, at the end of the second round.
Reliever Tir Mayza (2-1) was credited with the win. The loss went to rookie top scorer Bryan Woo (1-3).
Also, in his third start since returning to the Blue Jays after being demoted to the minor leagues, Alek Manoah was down three for five and a third inning.
The Blue Jays’ victory was the first at the Mariners’ home since August 15, 2021. The Toronto team had lost their last six games at T-Mobile Park.
Starting Monday, the Blue Jays kick off a three-game series in Los Angeles against the Dodgers.
