LCS Day 6 storylines, lineups, updates: Who will rule two-game Friday in MLB playoffs?

For perchance the last clip successful 2025, determination are 2 MLB playoff games connected tap. And the stakes are precocious for each 4 teams.

In the aboriginal crippled Friday, the Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners volition conscionable successful Game 5 of the American League Championship Series, with the winning squad moving 1 triumph distant from the World Series. Later on, the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers could implicit a expanse of the top-seeded Milwaukee Brewers with a triumph successful Game 4 of the National League Championship Series.

We've got it each covered for you with pregame storylines and lineups, positive apical moments during the games and takeaways aft the last pitches.

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What we're watching successful Friday's games

ALCS Game 5: Blue Jays-Mariners

How tin the Blue Jays support their momentum going successful Game 5?

Buster Olney: Toronto ace Kevin Gausman is afloat rested and acceptable to go, and helium could gully upon the enactment of Max Scherzer, who was effectual against the Mariners successful Game 4 by slowing everything down. Seattle hitters seemed to beryllium geared up for fastballs against Scherzer, and instead, Scherzer kept dropping successful off-speed pitches. And Gausman has an exceptional off-speed limb successful his split-fingered fastball.

David Schoenfield: Keep hitting the shot hard! OK, seriously, fewer teams person travel into Seattle -- arguably the toughest spot to deed successful the majors -- and dismantled the Mariners' pitching unit similar the Blue Jays did successful the archetypal 2 games here. They deed 21 balls with an exit velocity of 100-plus mph -- with 16 of those going for hits and 11 of those 16 hits going for other bases. The Blue Jays had the lowest strikeout complaint successful the majors successful the regular play and they showed however lethal this discourtesy tin beryllium erstwhile it's putting the shot successful play. Oh, yeah, it helps erstwhile Andres Gimenez, your No. 9 hitter, has homered twice, and it particularly helps erstwhile Vladimir Guerrero Jr., aft going 0-for-7 successful the 2 games successful Toronto, is 6-for-9 successful the 2 games successful Seattle.

What indispensable Seattle bash otherwise to salvage its last location crippled of this ALCS?

Olney: Bryce Miller lifted the full Seattle traveling enactment by pitching truthful good connected abbreviated remainder little than 48 hours aft the unthinkable Game 5 triumph implicit Detroit successful the AL Division Series, and due to the fact that of however Games 3 and 4 played retired here, Miller is facing akin unit successful Game 5. Except present the Blue Jays hitters are rolling, aft piling up a upland of discourtesy the past 2 days. It's imaginable that Mariners manager Dan Wilson volition beryllium assertive with his bullpen again -- peculiarly with person Andres Munoz and regular-season ace Bryan Woo.

Schoenfield: The pitchers decidedly request to get much swing-and-miss against the Blue Jays, but the Seattle discourtesy needs to produce. It's 1 happening to look Tarik Skubal twice, similar the Mariners did against Detroit, but Skubal isn't pitching successful this series. In 9 playoff games, the Mariners are hitting conscionable .215 and respective cardinal guys a...