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The Toronto Blue Jays could clinch a playoff spot for the second straight season. But they will need a little help from the Seattle Mariners if they don't want their playoff fate hanging in the air heading into the final day of the MLB season. The Blue Jays (89-71) currently hold the second wild card spot but are only two games up on the Seattle…

The Toronto Blue Jays could clinch a playoff spot for the second straight season as soon as today. But they will need a little help from the Seattle Mariners if they don't want their playoff fate hanging in the air heading into the final day of the MLB season. The Blue Jays (89-71) currently hold the second wild card spot but are only two games up…

NEW YORK - One week ago, the Toronto Blue Jays hit rock bottom after a demoralizing sweep at home against the Texas Rangers, who outscored the Blue Jays 35-9 over four games and knocked them out of the playoff picture. Toronto's deficit in the American League wild-card standings at that point - 2½ games behind Texas for the second spot and 1½…

The Toronto Blue Jays enter September sitting 2.5 games out of the final playoff spot in the American League. The latest: Toronto has a month of baseball left to reach the wild-card round for the second consecutive season. It will begin its push against a trio of inferior opponents but will do so without the left side of its starting infield, as…

The Seattle Mariners take on the Los Angeles Angels. Our MLB odds series has our Mariners Angels prediction and pick. Find out how to watch Mariners Angels. The Seattle Mariners and Los Angeles Angels arrive at a very important moment in their respective seasons. The two teams are separated by half a game. They are both under four games out of the…

The Toronto Blue Jays take on the Los Angeles Dodgers. Our MLB odds series has our Blue Jays Dodgers prediction and pick. Find out how to watch Blue Jays Dodgers. The Toronto Blue Jays are fighting two different battles right now. On one hand, they are trying to chase down the Tampa Bay Rays and Baltimore Orioles for the American League East…

The Toronto Blue Jays take on the Seattle Mariners. Our MLB odds series has our Blue Jays Mariners prediction and pick. Find out how to watch Blue Jays Mariners. The Toronto Blue Jays are chasing the Tampa Bay Rays and Baltimore Orioles for the American League East Division championship, but that's a secondary point of concern right now. The main…

The Toronto Blue Jays and the Seattle Mariners meet in game one of their MLB weekend series from T-Mobile Park on Friday night. The Jays fans usually travel out in droves for this matchup on the West Coast, can the Jays pick up where they left off after winning 2 of 3 in the first series against the Mariners this season? Or will the Mariners exact…

Chris Bassitt is heading to the Toronto Blue Jays after one season with the New York Mets. He joins a rotation that already includes Alek Manoah, Kevin Gausman, Yusei Kikuchi, Hyun Jin Ryu and José Berríos. The Blue Jays are bolstering their already-deep rotation. Toronto has an agreement with right-hander Chris Bassitt, according to ESPN's Jeff…

The Toronto Blue Jays will take on the Seattle Mariners in a very crucial Game 2 of their Wild Card playoffs at the Rogers Center on October 8. The Mariners lead the playoff series 1-0. The Mariners managed to startle and romp the Blue Jays at home in Game 1 of their three-game Wild Card series in the American League. They won the game 4-0 on the…

The visiting Seattle Mariners will try to close out the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 2 of their American League wild card series at 4:07 p.m. ET Saturday at Rogers Centre. The Mariners (91-72/45-37 road) won 4-0 in Game 1 on Friday for their fifth straight victory and eighth in their last 10 games. The Blue Jays (92-71/47-35 home) have lost two of…

The Seattle Mariners will visit the Toronto Blue Jays Friday afternoon in Game 1 of their best-of-three American League Wild Card series with a 4:07 p.m. ET first pitch from the Rogers Centre in Toronto. Luis Castillo (8-6, 2.99 ERA) will toe the rubber for the visiting Mariners in a matchup with Alek Manoah (16-7, 2.24) of the Blue Jays. The…

Mariners: Mariners over Blue Jays in WC round, lose to Astros in ALDS. Larry Stone AL pennant: Blue Jays NL pennant: Braves World Series: In a rematch of the 1992 World Series, the Blue Jays win again, this time in seven games instead of six. Mariners: Not locking up the No. 1 wild-card seed (or the No. 3, for that matter) will come back to haunt…

This is an excerpt from The Buzzer, CBC Sports' daily email newsletter. Keep up to date with what's happening in esports by subscribing here. The transition from baseball's regular season to the postseason is fast enough to give you whiplash. The 162-game slog is over, and suddenly most of the remaining teams are one loss away from being one loss…

The third game of today's Wild Card MLB Playoffs slate pits the Seattle Mariners against the Toronto Blue Jays. The Mariners finally ended their 21-year postseason drought this year but will now have to travel to Toronto to face the Blue Jays who won 92 games in a loaded AL East. This MLB betting preview for the AL Wild Card MLB Playoffs Mariners…

Seattle Mariners (90-72) vs. Toronto Blue Jays (92-70) October 7, 2022 4:07 pm EDT The Line: Toronto Blue Jays -152 / Seattle Mariners+123; Over/Under: +7 (Click here for latest betting odds) The Seattle Mariners and the Toronto Blue Jays meet Friday in game 1 of the AL Wild Card MLB playoffs action from Rogers Centre. This will be the opener in a…

The new-look MLB playoffs are here. Gone is the old single-game wild-card round between the 4-seed and 5-seed. Instead, this year, for the first time, MLB features four three-game wild-card series after expanding each playoff field to six teams and three wild cards. The top two seeds in each league receive a bye to the ALDS and NLDS,…

This is the first time since 2016 that the Blue Jays will host a postseason game at Rogers Centre. They welcome to the north the Seattle Mariners in an intriguing AL Wild Card Series. The winner gets to face the Astros in the next round. Here we'll discuss our Toronto Blue Jays AL Wild Card Series predictions as they take on the Mariners. The old…

O, Canada! Baseball's new post-season format will debut in the North, where the Toronto Blue Jays and a guaranteed insane Canadian crowd welcome the Seattle Mariners for the American League Wild Card playoff series. The Mariners snapped a twenty-year playoff drought to claim a wild card spot, while the Blue Jays were one of three American League…

The postseason in the MLB starts with wild card games on Friday, October 7, with four games on the schedule, including this American League clash, so make sure you check out the best Mariners vs. Jays betting pick and odds. Seattle and Toronto will play the first of a best-of-three ALWC series at Rogers Centre, and the Blue Jays are -145 moneyline…

There's symmetry in the Toronto Blue Jays (92-70) and Seattle Mariners (90-72) meeting in the AL Wild Card playoffs. Both teams entered as MLB expansion franchises in 1977. As the only Canadian MLB franchise, the Blue Jays literally are Canada's team. However, Seattle's proximity to Canada has created pockets of Mariners fans in British…

The MLB postseason begins Friday, Oct. 7 with 12 teams competing in the playoffs instead of 10. With the AL Wild Card round beginning Friday, one team was added to the wild-card spot in both leagues. In the American League, four teams will be competing in the best-of-three series to see who will play the New York Yankees and Houston Astros in the…

The American League Wild Card Series between the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays will showcase some of baseball's top young talent. The first at-bat of the series Friday will likely feature Blue Jays starter Alek Manoah going up against Julio Rodríguez, the heavy favorite to win the AL Rookie of the Year Award. Manoah went 16-7 with a 2.24…

How big is home-field advantage in this weekend's wild card round for the Blue Jays? It could very well help carry them to greater heights, believes ESPN baseball insider Buster Olney. "If you were to list in baseball the places you don't want to be the visiting team, because of the atmosphere, because of the intensity of the crowd, the noise,…

The Blue Jays are in pretty good shape when it comes to October baseball. Per Fangraphs' postseason odds, the Jays have a 99.9% chance of making it to the MLB playoffs. It's not locked up yet, and won't be until they mathematically clinch, but all signs point to more than 162 Blue Jays games this year. That doesn't mean the Jays don't have anything…