Blue Jays offense awakens in Game 3 rout of M's

SEATTLE -- Somewhere on the 2,100-mile formation from Toronto to Seattle, the Blue Jays recovered their bats.

Somewhere on the travel west, Blue Jays hitting manager Dave Popkins besides sent manager John Schneider a video of the 1996 World Series -- a bid successful which the New York Yankees mislaid the archetypal 2 games astatine location lone to rally and triumph the adjacent four.

The message: This bid is not over.

The Blue Jays, aft losing the archetypal 2 games of the ALCS astatine home, tattooed baseballs each implicit T-Mobile Park connected Wednesday evening, smashing 5 location runs and 4 doubles successful a 13-4 rout of the Seattle Mariners to get backmost successful the bid and debar facing an elimination crippled Thursday.

After mustering conscionable 8 hits successful the archetypal 2 losses, the Blue Jays knew their crippled plan: Get the shot successful the aerial much often -- and deed it hard erstwhile you do, similar they did against the Yankees successful the ALDS, erstwhile they deed .338 and scored 34 runs successful 4 games. They did conscionable that, with implicit authority.

Across those archetypal 2 games against Seattle, the Jays deed conscionable 10 full balls successful play astatine 100 mph oregon higher. In their five-run detonation against George Kirby successful the 3rd inning, determination was thing cheap. They had 4 hits unsocial successful the inning of 103-plus mph, with No. 9 hitter Andres Gimenez starting the onslaught with a two-run location tally to close tract and Daulton Varsho finishing it disconnected with a two-run laser beam of a treble disconnected the partition successful right.

The exclamation points came connected George Springer's 431-foot blast to halfway tract successful the 4th ... and past Vladimir Guerrero Jr.'s location tally to halfway successful the 5th ... and past Alejandro Kirk's three-run opposite-field location tally to close successful the sixth.

The Blue Jays had Mariners fans successful the outfield bleachers scattering similar the seagulls looking for scraps astatine Ivar's Acres of Clams connected Alaskan Way.

All told, the Blue Jays had 13 balls successful play of 100-plus mph -- and 11 of them went for hits. Springer's location tally was the loudest, his 22nd vocation postseason location tally and 40th vocation extra-base hit, conscionable the sixth subordinate successful postseason past to scope 40.

The Blue Jays jumped each implicit Kirby aboriginal successful the count, particularly connected his fastball, knowing helium would lb the onslaught portion with some his four-seamer and sinker. Gimenez's location tally came connected an 0-1 four-seamer, Varsho's treble came connected a 1-1 four-seamer, Springer's location tally was disconnected a first-pitch sinker and Guerrero's location tally was against a first-pitch slider. Ernie Clement's treble successful the 3rd that started the inning was besides connected a first-pitch sinker. All 8 hits disconnected Kirby came erstwhile the number was 1-1 oregon earlier.

Swing early, plaything hard.

Everyone seemed to get successful the enactment for the Blue Jays. As portion of an 18-hit attack, they had six antithetic players with aggregate hits and astatine slightest 1 RBI, the archetypal squad to bash that successful a playoff crippled since the Texas Rangers successful the 2011 ALCS. The 5 location runs matched the astir ever for an American League squad successful a playoff crippled -- thing the Blue Jays besides did successful Gam...