{"id":301271,"date":"2025-10-14T00:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T00:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/301271\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T00:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T00:36:11","slug":"mariners-vs-blue-jays-score-takeaways-seattle-takes-commanding-2-0-alcs-lead-behind-game-2-power-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/301271\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners vs. Blue Jays score, takeaways: Seattle takes commanding 2-0 ALCS lead behind Game 2 power surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Mariners are two wins away from the first World Series berth in franchise history. Monday night at Rogers Centre, the Mariners used three-run homers from Julio Rodr\u00edguez and Jorge Polanco to take Game 2 of the ALCS (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/gametracker\/boxscore\/MLB_20251013_SEA@TOR\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SEA 10, TOR 3<\/a>). Seattle is two wins away from the American League pennant. The Blue Jays, on the other hand, must win four of the next five games to advance.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, teams that take a 2-0 lead in a best-of-seven have gone on to win the series 87% of the time. Games 3-5 will be played at T-Mobile Park, where the Mariners went 51-30 this season (39-42 on the road). The Blue Jays, meanwhile, went 40-41 on the road during the regular season (54-27 at home). The Mariners are very much in the ALCS driver&#8217;s seat.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the series is not over. You only need to look back two years to see the last time a team overcame a 2-0 deficit in the Championship Series: the Arizona Diamondbacks did it against the Philadelphia Phillies in the 2023 NLCS. The Blue Jays are down (down bad), but there is a lot of baseball to play, and they are very, very good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Seattle Mariners are two wins away from the first World Series berth in franchise history. Monday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":301272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1266,1288,62,1290,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-301271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-seattle-mariners","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115369724680240132","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}