TORONTO - George Springer is back in the Toronto Blue Jays' lineup.

Springer will bat leadoff as Toronto hosts the Seattle Mariners in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series on Sunday night. Seattle leads the best-of-seven series 3-2.

Blue Jays manager John Schneider said that Springer was in good spirits on Saturday after his X-rays and CT scan came back negative.

"It was going to take a whole lot more, I think, to keep him out of the lineup," said Schneider in a pre-game news conference. "I was checking in with him via text this morning. He basically told me to shut up. Did the same thing when he got in today."

Springer went down after a 95.6 m.p.h. two-seam fastball from Seattle reliever Bryan Woo clipped his right knee in the seventh inning of Game 5 on Friday.

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