SEATTLE – Through the first two games of the American League Championship Series, the Seattle Mariners shut down the Toronto Blue Jays’ high-powered lineup.
Toronto bounced back in a major way in Game 3.
Toronto Blue Jays 13, Seattle Mariners 4: Box score
The Blue Jays exploded for a five-run third inning off Mariners starter George Kirby and rolled to a 13-4 rout that quieted a raucous T-Mobile Park crowd and cut Seattle’s lead to 2-1 in this best-of-seven series.
The night began on a good note for the Mariners, as Julio Rodríguez blasted a two-run homer in the first inning that gave Seattle an early 2-0 lead and sent an already-electric crowd into a frenzy. It was the seventh time in eight games that the Mariners have scored first this postseason.
But it all unraveled after that,