SEATTLE – There was a reason Blue Jays manager Charlie Montoyo had a warm embrace for starter Ross Stripling when he came to the dugout after five innings on a…
Once again, the struggling Toronto offence couldn’t come through, however, as the Mariners walked it off for 5-2 extra-innings win on a monster three-run homer by Eugenio Suarez in the 12th.
It was a massive victory for the Mariners, winners of six in a row and a team no longer on the fringes of the AL wild-card race, now just two games behind the Jays. This one was on the offence, however, a group of Jays hitters that had managed a combined 12 runs in their previous five games, a dormant attack that had cost them.Article content
There was certainly some progress in that approach as the Jays repeatedly got runners on base, slapping out 12 hits in total. Cashing them in was the issue, illustrated by an exclamation point bases-loaded strikeout by Bo Bichette in the fourth.
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