Game 7 in the MLB postseason means all hands on deck, and that's certainly the case for the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays when they play for the American League pennant on Monday.
Blue Jays pitchers Kevin Gausman and Max Scherzer are both available out of the bullpen to back up starter Shane Bieber, and if both get into the game, it will be an odd repeat of history . As the fine folks at Just Baseball pointed out, the last relief appearance for each actually came in the same game — when Gausman pitched for the San Francisco Giants and Scherzer for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
It was Game 5 of the 2021 NLDS. Gausman got the last two outs of the top of the 9th inning that night after Cody Bellinger broke a 1-1 tie with an RBI single off Camilo Doval. That turned out to be th