Vancouver Canucks coach throws support behind 'Canada's team' as Blue Jays face Mariners

The Minnesota Twins have a daunting task ahead of them beginning Tuesday. They must end the longest playoff losing streak in North American sports. However, there are many unknowns for the Twins going into the series. They won't know who they'll play until 48 hours before the first pitch. Their only certainties for the series are who will pitch…

There's a scenario, as bad as this sounds, where the Rangers are on the outside looking in, while the Mariners, Blue Jays and Astros are in the playoffs. DALLAS - It all comes down to this. The Texas Rangers (89-69) have four games left in the regular season, and they'll enter Thursday night's game against Seattle (85-73) with a 2.5-game lead over…

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 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…

Backing Yusei Kikuchi? We know, it sounds weird, but our MLB picks have sound reasoning to have faith in the Blue Jays starter in this "road" matchup with his old Mariners club. The Seattle Mariners players and fans may not like it, but the Blue Wave will descend upon the Emerald City as the Toronto Blue Jays and their legions of West Coast fans…

It's been a quiet series thus far, with Toronto taking the first two games of this series by 3-2 and 1-0 scorelines. With two more solid pitchers taking the mound on Sunday, our MLB betting picks expect that lack of scoring to continue. The Toronto Blue Jays (18-9) look for a sweep as they host the Seattle Mariners (11-16) on Sunday…

It's not just baseball fans that are excited to see the Toronto Blue Jays return to Rogers Centre - local businesses are happy too. After a 10-game road trip to start the season, Toronto hosts the Detroit Tigers in their home opener on Tuesday. Significant off-season renovations to Rogers Centre forced the Blue Jays to start the year south of the…

Oddsmakers giving Leafs fourth-best chance to win 2023 Stanley Cup Adam Laskaris Posteda day ago There's only one question Toronto Maple Leafs fans really care about: can the team ever win the Stanley Cup again? Well, the oddsmakers seem to think they've got one of the best shots in the league this season. Oddsmakers at Sports Interaction are…

Social media is a powerful, powerful tool that Canadian pro teams utilize to grow their brands and to reach out to new fans. Professionally, the Great White North is home to seven NHL teams, three MLS teams, and a team in the NBA, MLB, and professional rugby league. Canadian pro teams can reach millions upon millions of fans for all kinds of…

You always have to expect the unexpected in the MLB Playoffs. With that being said, not many would've expected the Seattle Mariners to jump on the Toronto Blue Jays as they did in Mariners vs Blue Jays Game 1, where they scored three runs in the very first inning. With their backs against the wall and their ace on the mound, the Blue Jays will not…

After two decades of futility, frustration, and plenty of hope deferred, the Seattle Mariners have broken their long standing playoff drought. They've come close before, as recently as last year, but this season was different. After their July hot streak and an equally good August, making the postseason seemed like an inevitability, even if there…

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…

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 Toronto Blue Jays will host a playoff game Friday for the first time since 2016. That drought seems insignificant in the face of the 21-year postseason absence that Seattle Mariners fans have endured since their team won 116 games in 2001. Seattle will bring a hungry, talented club to town, while the Blue Jays hope they can convert their…

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,…

Once upon a time, mid-September brought my annual check-in on the potential for end-of-season chaos in the playoff races via my Team Entropy series. With the new Collective Bargaining Agreement and the restructured postseason, however, Major League Baseball has done away with tiebreaker games and the scheduling mayhem that they could cause in favor…

At 72-65, the Orioles are currently 4.5 games behind the Toronto Blue Jays for the final AL Wild Card spot. Sitting half a game ahead of the Blue Jays are the Seattle Mariners, who have been one of the hottest teams in baseball over the past couple months, and sitting a game ahead of Seattle are the Tampa Bay Rays. For the Orioles to find their way…

There are multiple games tonight on the American League schedule, and there's value to be found. Below, you can find our AL best bets from FanDuel Sportsbook. The Cleveland Guardians and Seattle Mariners will play Game 1 of their four-game series tonight from T-Mobile Park. Both of these clubs enter this matchup with playoff aspirations, the…

When it comes to the Toronto Blue Jays, it's not only their faithful followers who root, root, root for the home team. Since online sports wagering was legalized in Ontario at the beginning of April, bettors have quickly put their digital wallets behind the Blue Jays. And, as the Jays limped into Tampa on Friday for the start of a weekend series in…

TORONTO - The best way for the Toronto Blue Jays to get over their sweep by the Texas Rangers? Go out and sweep a team. That's exactly what the Blue Jays did against the Boston Red Sox this weekend, taking three in a row, including a 3-2 win Sunday at the Rogers Centre, their second consecutive walk-off victory. "To get swept and then to sweep a…