Bieber aims to get Toronto’s Comeback Kids a road win tonight in ALCS

By: The Canadian Press Posted: 4:00 AM CDT Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025 Last Modified: 4:52 PM CDT Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025

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SEATTLE – For more than a century, statistics have been a staple of the game of baseball.

Many of those key numbers currently don’t favour the Toronto Blue Jays as they aim to dig themselves out of a 2-0 hole in the American League Championship Series, starting tonight at T-Mobile Park.

The Mariners, with 3-1 and 10-3 wins in Toronto, are firmly in the driver’s seat with Games 3, 4 and 5, if necessary, in Seattle. The only Major League Baseball team to never play in the World Series feels confident it can end that drought.

Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Shane Bieber (57) delivers against the New York Yankees during the first inning of Game 3 of baseball's American League Division Series, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Teams that take a two-game lead in a best-of-seven post-season series have advanced 78 of 93 times. And of the 27 teams that lost the first two games at home in the playoffs with a 2-3-2 format, only three have rallied to win.

The Jays have been outscored 13-4, outhit 17-8 and have not scored past the second inning in the first two games. The Mariners have more homers (4-1), and Blue Jay sluggers Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Addison Barger, Daulton Varsho and Andres Gimenez haven’t registered a hit in the ALCS.

But the Blue Jays, who were the Comeback Kids this season with 49 come-from-behind victories in earning the American League’s top seed, insist the ALCS is far from over.

Right-hander Shane Bieber, whom the Jays acquired in a July trade with the Cleveland Guardians to enhance their playoff fortunes, will be on the mound for Toronto tonight. The Mariners will counter with right-hander George Kirby. First pitch is scheduled for 8:08 p.m. ET.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 15, 2025.