ALCS Game 2 (Mariners lead 1-0)
Mariners at Blue Jays
2:03 p.m. | Rogers Centre | Toronto
TV: FOX/FS1 | Radio: KIRO 710 AM
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After defying the odds with a Game 1 win in Toronto, the Mariners will send Logan Gilbert to the mound for Game 2 against the Blue Jays on Monday afternoon. Here are the lineups and how to watch.
Going with Gilbert now gives the M’s the best chance at a knockout the Blue Jays might not be able to recover from.
Meanwhile, Bryan Woo threw a live bullpen session Monday in Toronto and was as up-beat as he has been in weeks.
And with two RBI hits in the series opener, Jorge Polanco continues to deliver for the Mariners in the postseason.
What to know before ALCS Game 2
Mariners release lineup vs. Blue Jays RHP Trey Yesavage
TORONTO — The Mariners will roll out the same lineup for Game 2 of the American League Championship Series facing a pitcher that nearly ended up in Seattle.
Seattle manager Dan Wilson has kept his lineup the same in every game this postseason when facing a right-handed starting pitcher. And they’ll be facing another in Game 2 in promising Toronto rookie Trey Yesavage.
Oddly enough, Yesavage nearly became a Mariner. Yesavage was selected with the 20th overall pick in the 2024 MLB draft out of East Carolina. He was heavily linked with the Mariners, but concerns around a drop in velocity after Yesavage missed time due to a punctured lung led to the Mariners selecting switch-pitcher Jurrangelo Cijntje at No. 16.
—Tim Booth
Pregame views from Rogers Centre before Game 2
They know the Blue Jays are in the danger zone.
— Bob Condotta (@bcondotta) October 13, 2025
Kraken lend anthem singer Tommie Burton to Mariners for Game 4
The Kraken are on this road this week, so they’re loaning their anthem singer to the Mariners.
Tommie Burton announced on Twitter he’ll be doing the Canadian national anthem before ALCS Game 4 at T-Mobile Park on Thursday.
Burton, for those who aren’t regulars at Climate Pledge Arena, sings the anthem before every Kraken home game.
Burton has an interesting story for a singer, overcoming a childhood stutter and is self-taught from karaoke. You can read more about that here.
—Nathan Joyce
Here’s the Mariners’ plan for Bryan Woo vs. Blue Jays
TORONTO — Waiting for their scheduled early batting practice, several Blue Jays hitters were taking practice swings in front of the home dugout just as Mariners ace Bryan Woo was wrapping up his live pitching session off the Rogers Centre mound early Monday afternoon.
Woo threw his final pitch to teammate Leo Rivas and then playfully motioned to Toronto’s Isiah Kiner-Falefa to step into the batter’s box next.
It was a light-hearted moment to wrap up an encouraging step-forward for Woo, who remains on track to make his postseason debut in this American League Championship Series.
—Adam Jude
How to watch ALCS Game 2 between Mariners and Blue Jays
Still riding the high of the Mariners’ surprise victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday night?
You won’t have to wait long to see if the Mariners can keep up the momentum in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series. The game will begin Monday at 2:03 p.m. Pacific time in Toronto’s Rogers Centre.
Fans have been riding the emotional roller coaster that is the Mariners’ first ALCS appearance since 2001. So you might know the drill already, but here’s how to tune in to Game 2.
—Kai Uyehara
Mariners trust Logan Gilbert to deliver knockout blow
TORONTO — When Logan Gilbert walked from the bullpen at T-Mobile Park last Friday night in the 10th inning of Game 5 against Detroit, he was unaware that fire was shooting into the sky on either side of the doorway to the bullpen.
He saw the video later. It looked cool. To the point that before Game 1 of the ALCS on Sunday night, Gilbert joked that from now on he was only going to pitch if fire was included.
He won’t be getting a fire-framed entrance Monday when he starts in Game 2 against Toronto. It’s unlikely the home team will be interested in providing such an elaborate display for the pitcher given the opportunity to take control of the championship series for the Mariners.
The decision to go with Gilbert is bold and a bit of a surprise.
—Tim Booth
Mariners’ Bryce Miller had Blue Jays beat before ALCS Game 1 began
TORONTO — How do you follow 15 innings?
How do you run a marathon through a minefield, throwing 209 total pitches, then do it all again? How do you lift a city, then reset less than two days later? How do you shake a Champagne shower that was two-plus decades overdue? How do you author an emotional epic and nail the encore?
Undermanned and overtaxed, how do you deliver?
The answer, in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series on Sunday night, was simple.
Who cares about the context?
You collectively overcome.
—Mike Vorel
Jorge Polanco becoming Mariners’ Mr. October as he comes up clutch again
TORONTO — Remember when Jorge Polanco signed this past winter and everyone seemed to hate the idea of bringing him back?
That was nearly nine months and a lot of big swings ago. And two more of those swings came on Sunday night as the Mariners swiped Game 1 of the American League Championship Series with a 3-1 win over the Blue Jays.
“He knows what he can do. He knows what he can do for us, for our team and that’s why he got a really good success in those situations,” third baseman Eugenio Suárez said of Polanco. “He is huge for us.”
Cal Raleigh sparking the M’s with yet another home run against Toronto and Bryce Miller throwing a gutty six innings deserve the headlines from this series-opening victory.
But to say Polanco’s had a significant hand in the last two Mariners playoff victories would be understating the importance of what he’s done just in the past 48 hours.
—Tim Booth
Bryce Miller weathered early storm to give Mariners a gem in Game 1
TORONTO — Bryce Miller could feel the game speeding up on him.
A raucous sellout crowd in the Rogers Centre, already amped up from George Springer’s homer on Miller’s first pitch of the game, was redlining toward full celebratory eruption.
He had already lost a 12-pitch battle, walking Nathaniel Lukes. His only out came on Vlad Guerrero Jr.’s 107-mph line drive to Julio Rodríguez in center field. When he walked Addison Barger on five pitches, manager Dan Wilson was starting to consider his options in the bullpen, while the Blue Jays were one swing away from delivering a roundhouse punch in the first inning.
Cal Raleigh went to the mound to talk to his starter. It was a relatively lengthy visit, forcing home plate umpire Ryan Additon to come break it up.
Was Raleigh trying to calm his starting pitcher down? Was he going over strategy? Was he trying to instill confidence in Miller?
—Ryan Divish
Impressions from Mariners’ ALCS Game 1 win
TORONTO — Three instant impressions after the Mariners beat the Blue Jays 3-1 in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series on Sunday night:
Take a bow, Bryce
In a perfect scenario, Luis Castillo never needs to get into Game 5 of the ALDS and would have been the starter for the opener against the Blue Jays.
Instead, Bryce Miller was asked to throw on three days’ rest for the first time in his career and try to keep the Mariners close. Save the overtaxed bullpen a little bit. Four innings would be great. Five innings? Well, that would be gravy in the land of poutine.
—Tim Booth
Mariners turn to Logan Gilbert to start Game 2 vs. Blue Jays
TORONTO — Logan Gilbert will take the ball for the Mariners on Monday in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series as Seattle looks to take the first two games of the series.
Mariners defy odds to beat Blue Jays in Game 1 of ALCS
TORONTO — Dan Wilson finished pouring a cold, light beer into a tall to-go cup, grabbed a plastic bag containing his carry-out dinner and headed up a ramp leading out of the visitors’ clubhouse.
Then the Mariners manager turned the wrong way.
He went right out of the clubhouse doors, down a Rogers Centre hallway leading to a restricted area. The team bus, he soon discovered, was the other way.
One U-turn later, he was back on course.
It was a rare misstep during an otherwise stress-free Sunday night for Wilson and the Mariners, who turned to Bryce Miller and then turned the American League Championship Series on its head with a stunning 3-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 1.
—Adam Jude
Seattle Times sports staff.