Polanco keeps rolling as M's take two in Toronto

TORONTO -- Julio Rodriguez and Jorge Polanco deed three-run homers, Josh Naylor added a two-run thrust and the Seattle Mariners took a 2-0 AL Championship Series pb by routing the Toronto Blue Jays 10-3 connected Monday.

Seattle, the lone large league squad ne'er marque a World Series, headed location for Wednesday's Game 3 needing 2 much wins successful the best-of-seven bid to extremity that drought.

Toronto had conscionable six hits, lone 1 aft the 2nd inning, and had 8 hits successful the archetypal 2 games. Blue Jays prima Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was 0 for 3 with a locomotion and is hitless successful the series.

Rodriguez homered for a 3-0 pb 3 batters successful against rookie Trey Yesavage, a 22-year-old making conscionable his 5th large league start.

Nathan Lukes and Alejandro Kirk had RBI singles successful the bottommost fractional disconnected Logan Gilbert, and Lukes' run-scoring azygous tied the people successful the second.

Polanco's three-run homer disconnected Louis Varland enactment Seattle backmost up 6-3 successful the fifth. J.P Crawford added an RBI azygous successful the sixth and Naylor had a two-run homer successful the seventh against Braydon Fisher.

Six of Polanco's archetypal 7 hits this postseason drove successful runs. He had the game-ending azygous successful the 15th inning of Friday's Division Series clincher against Detroit and went 2 for 4 with 2 RBIs successful Seattle's 3-1 opening ALCS win. Polanco's 2 erstwhile location runs this October some came disconnected Detroit's Tarik Skubal, the reigning AL Cy Young Award winner.

The extortion was unfastened connected a breezy 62-degree time connected the Canadian Thanksgiving holiday, but the sellout assemblage of 44,814 had small to celebrate.

Seattle's bullpen has combined for 9 scoreless innings successful the series, allowing conscionable 1 hit. Winner Eduard Bazardo, Carlos Vargas and Emerson Hancock each pitched 2 innings.

Naylor, calved successful Mississauga, Ontario, fouled a shot his close ft successful the archetypal inning and looked uncomfortable successful the batter's container successful the fifth, prompting manager Dan Wilson to travel retired and cheque connected him. With Miles Mastrobuoni getting acceptable to travel into the crippled if needed, Naylor convinced Wilson to permission him successful and homered successful the seventh.

Yesavage, who took the loss, gave up 3 runs and 4 hits successful four-plus innings. He acceptable a Blue Jays postseason grounds by striking retired 11 Yankees successful 5 ⅓ hitless innings successful ALDS Game 2 but had conscionable 2 swings and misses connected his splitter, down from 11 against New York.

Blue Jays outfielder Anthony Santander was scratched from the lineup due to the fact that of a sore little back. Davis Schneider replaced him and went 0 for 3 with a walk.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.