Mariners shut down Jays' bats to steal Game 1

TORONTO -- Cal Raleigh homered, Jorge Polanco drove successful the go-ahead tally with a sixth-inning azygous and the Seattle Mariners bushed the Toronto Blue Jays 3-1 Sunday nighttime arsenic they returned to the American League Championship Series for the archetypal clip successful 24 years.

Toronto's George Springer homered connected Game 1's archetypal transportation from Bryce Miller, who past escaped a two-on jam successful a 27-pitch archetypal inning. Anthony Santander singled successful the 2nd for Toronto's lone different hit, and Seattle pitchers retired 23 of the Blue Jays' last 24 batters arsenic Miller, Gabe Speier, Matt Brash and Andrés Muñoz combined to propulsion conscionable 100 pitches.

Raleigh, who led the large leagues with 60 homers, tied the people successful the sixth with his ninth homer successful 14 games astatine Rogers Centre. Kevin Gausman had held batters to 0-for-16 connected splitters successful the postseason earlier the homer by Raleigh.

Polanco deed a go-ahead azygous aboriginal successful the inning and added an RBI azygous successful the eighth.

"We're a pugnacious team, you know, 1 done nine," Raleigh said. "Pitchers came retired today, really, truly impressed us. They did awesome. Especially abbreviated remainder and however galore pitches they threw the different day."

AL West champion Seattle traveled to AL East victor Toronto connected Saturday aft a 3-2 location triumph implicit the Tigers to triumph the Division Series successful the longest winner-take-all crippled successful Major League Baseball history.

Seattle, the lone MLB squad to ne'er big a World Series game, held Toronto to 2 hits aft the Blue Jays had 50 hits and 34 runs successful their four-game Division Series against the New York Yankees.

Miller, the winner, struck retired 3 and walked 3 successful six innings, throwing 72 pitches. The 3 relievers each had 1-2-3 innings, with Muñoz getting the save.

Toronto's Vladimir Guerrero Jr. went 9 for 17 with 3 homers and 9 RBIs against the Yankees but finished 0 for 4 Sunday with 3 groundouts.

"This is going to beryllium a hard-fought series, man," Toronto manager John Schneider said. "These guys volition beryllium acceptable for it."

Springer's 21st postseason location tally broke a necktie with the Yankees' Derek Jeter, moving him into sole possession of 5th spot connected the vocation list.

Raleigh's homer was his 4th successful 15 at-bats against Gausman, who took the loss.

Polanco, who had the game-ending azygous Friday, singled against Brendon Little to thrust successful Julio Rodríguez, who was walked by Gausman.

Polanco added different RBI azygous against Seranthony Domínguez.

Eugenio Suárez doubled of the apical of the right-field partition successful the seventh against Louis Varland. The 395-foot thrust would person been a homer successful 15 of 30 large league ballparks, including Seattle.

Toronto outfielder Nathan Lukes near successful the 4th inning. Lukes bruised his close genu erstwhile helium fouled a transportation disconnected it successful the archetypal inning.