The American League Championship Series of 2025 was perfectly balanced until that game. The Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners both tied 2-2, with the Blue Jays winning the road game. Game 5 in Seattle’s T-Mobile Park was pivotal because it could tip the scales, giving one team a 3-2 series lead. And after winning their last two straight games, the Blue Jays were doing precisely what they did against the Yankees. Building the momentum..

To defend their home turf, Eugenio Suarez scored the first run for the Mariners in the second inning. The Jays answered back. George Springer tied the game with a fifth-inning double. And then Alejandro Kirk’s double and Ernie Clement’s single gave Toronto a 2-1 lead in the sixth.

And that they hold until the top of the eighth. They were almost sure a

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