ALCS Game #5 - Toronto at Seattle (Friday, 6:08)

[JaysRule15]

Kirby, Castillo, Woo are all ace level SP and better than any pitcher we have. And their bullpen is also elite, unlike our collection of dumpster findings.

In other words

All my words are true and still correct.

I'm happy to be the jinx to get a winning outcome but now that you are involved, you have reverse-jinxed it.

It doesn't look like Woo is healthy enough for a full start. Most likely he's in a similar position as Bassitt who might pitch a few innings, but isn't built up after his injury.

Castillo has actually significantly declined this season. His numbers were down across the board and his velo has significantly dropped as well. Kirby is great but he's a big fastball guy and as a team, we love going against those type of pitchers.

We crushed their main lefty out of the pen yesterday and made him throw 32 pitches, which is huge for today.

It's looking promising today with our best pitcher out on the mound. Let's just hope they can solve Miller this time.

[Madvillainy2004]

All my words are true and still correct.

I'm happy to be the jinx to get a winning outcome but now that you are involved, you have reverse-jinxed it.

It doesn't look like Woo is healthy enough for a full start. Most likely he's in a similar position as Bassitt who might pitch a few innings, but isn't built up after his injury.

Castillo has actually significantly declined this season. His numbers were down across the board and his velo has significantly dropped as well. Kirby is great but he's a big fastball guy and as a team, we love going against those type of pitchers.

We crushed their main lefty out of the pen yesterday and made him throw 32 pitches, which is huge for today.

It's looking promising today with our best pitcher out on the mound. Let's just hope they can solve Miller this time.

Gausman has been "good" his first 2 starts this playoffs but I think he needs an elite 7-8 inning ace start tonight.

[Madvillainy2004]

I wonder how healthy Woo is, last pitched Sept 15th? Definitely cant start better than every non Buzardo/Munoz/Brash arm even hurt tho. If Miller gets into trouble I bet they bring him in but how long can he go? 3 innings? 4?

[Madvillainy2004]

Underrated play from last night was Naylor egregiously challenging Bargers arm in RF. Making the last out ar 3rd is a cardinal sin but doing so with your slowest baserunner against the best OF arm in baseball is just crazy.

Also Cals blocking behind the plate this series (and on the year) has been very bad. The jays are a team that feast on heavy traffic on the bases and Cal has to make blocks or we'll get more free runs like we did the past 2 nights.

[M3tro]

10-4 Jays

[JN]

Pre-game question of the day:

Say Max Scherzer was thankful that the Jays gave him the opportunity to pitch a playoff game, and is willing to come back at a contract of 1/6m this offseason. Do you give it to him? Does Shatkins?

[Parataxis]

Pre-game question of the day:

Say Max Scherzer was thankful that the Jays gave him the opportunity to pitch a playoff game, and is willing to come back at a contract of 1/6m this offseason. Do you give it to him? Does Shatkins?

Of course you do.

Best case scenario, he is a reliable middle-of-the-rotation option.
Worst case scenario, he's terrible and you either cut him, or he retires, and then you hire him back as a pitching coach.

[Randle McMurphy]

Davis better be starting this game tonight.

If I see IKF or Loperfido in that lineup, you need to fire them pre-game.

[JCP11]

Davis better be starting this game tonight.

If I see IKF or Loperfido in that lineup, you need to fire them pre-game.

I wouldn't mind Loperfido actually but yes Davis should be playing ahead of IKF.

[LLJ]

Really hard to predict where this series will go. If the road team wins all the games, we lose the series. And as someone mentioned yesterday, this team has an irritating tendency to make 5th starters look like HOFers while hitting well against aces.

It's been a great postseason for us, arguably even better than 2015 and 2016, so let's hope they keep playing for another two weeks or so.

[LoveMyRaps]

Davis better be starting this game tonight.

If I see IKF or Loperfido in that lineup, you need to fire them pre-game.

I wouldn't mind Loperfido actually but yes Davis should be playing ahead of IKF.

Who has better numbers against Miller?

[LoveMyRaps]

Really hard to predict where this series will go. If the road team wins all the games, we lose the series. And as someone mentioned yesterday, this team has an irritating tendency to make 5th starters look like HOFers while hitting well against aces.

If we win tonight, I highly doubt we lose back to back games at home.

[bluerap23]

Davis better be starting this game tonight.

If I see IKF or Loperfido in that lineup, you need to fire them pre-game.

I wouldn't mind Loperfido actually but yes Davis should be playing ahead of IKF.

Hard to argue with results. Manager has been pulling the right strings. I hated that they started IKF last night but it paid off.

[Boogie!]

Pre-game question of the day:

Say Max Scherzer was thankful that the Jays gave him the opportunity to pitch a playoff game, and is willing to come back at a contract of 1/6m this offseason. Do you give it to him? Does Shatkins?

I don’t mean this in a disrespectful way, but I don’t understand why people are already talking about next season in the middle of a potential World Series run. Can we just live in the moment? What’s the point of cheering for a championship if we’re already looking past it and on to next year.

[SFour]

game 5 is must win....can't take any comfort in the last 2 games being at home, I feel like they'd lose 1 of the 2.

[Boogie!]

All my words are true and still correct.

I'm happy to be the jinx to get a winning outcome but now that you are involved, you have reverse-jinxed it.

It doesn't look like Woo is healthy enough for a full start. Most likely he's in a similar position as Bassitt who might pitch a few innings, but isn't built up after his injury.

Castillo has actually significantly declined this season. His numbers were down across the board and his velo has significantly dropped as well. Kirby is great but he's a big fastball guy and as a team, we love going against those type of pitchers.

We crushed their main lefty out of the pen yesterday and made him throw 32 pitches, which is huge for today.

It's looking promising today with our best pitcher out on the mound. Let's just hope they can solve Miller this time.

I was actually surprised at how meh Castillo looked. He was a pretty decent slider still but if he’s only throwing 94 again he pretty much as the repertoire of berrios. And we ran him out of the game pretty quickly. Let’s hope we can finally get to miller tonight.

[Duffman100]

Tough. I have game 7 tickets.

I both want us to win in 6 but I also want to go to a game 7 ALCS.

[RaoulDuke79]

Random comment from an outside fan: the "rally shoe" the Mariner fans are doing is not only incredibly stupid but a little bit disgusting too...anyways please send them home where they belong, thanks.

Also, tits.

[NinjaBro]

I can go to Seattle to watch the game as it's really close to me but I'm told the cheapest ticket is $700USD. #$@$#&

[Asianiac_24]

I can go to Seattle to watch the game as it's really close to me but I'm told the cheapest ticket is $700USD. #$@$#&

I’m seeing $100 tickets on section 3xx