The ALCS between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Seattle Mariners is now officially a series.
Toronto took Game 3 over Seattle on Wednesday by an emphatic 13-4 final score. The Blue Jays clubbed five home runs at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, Wash. to earn the victory, trimming the Mariners’ lead in the series to 2-1.
After Seattle’s Julio Rodriguez opened the scoring in the first inning with a two-run homer, Toronto took over the wheel and scored the next 12 consecutive runs from there. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. led the charge with a near-cycle (including a fifth-inning home run off Mariners pitcher George Kirby), and George Springer, Alejandro Kirk, Andres Gimenez, and Addison Barger also each produced dingers for Toronto.
Addison Barger joins the @BlueJays home run party! #ALCS pic.twitter.com/mN0bDk8Pw8
— MLB (@MLB) October 16, 2025
Fans reacted online to the lopsided score with memes. It was equal parts hyping up the Jays over the phenomenal offensive showing and clowning on the Mariners for the complete dud after impressively taking a 2-0 series lead.
THE BLUE JAYS. pic.twitter.com/l5SIbu3CD5
— theScore (@theScore) October 16, 2025
Blue Jays bats waking up in Game 3: pic.twitter.com/010fmtsSKe
— Cabbie Richards (@Cabbie) October 16, 2025
G2 jays fans and G3 mariners fans who paid money to see their team in the ALCS: pic.twitter.com/XBGqwd8Kww
— alex (@steven_lebron) October 16, 2025
the seattle mariners getting borderline mercy ruled at their first ALCS game at home in 24 years is so mariners baseball (derogatory)
— c (@marxiners) October 16, 2025
It looked like the ALCS might be a short series after the Blue Jays dropped the first two games at home and scored just four combined runs in the process (with their pitching losing the plot at the same time as well). But Toronto came back to life in Game 3, more than tripling their run output over the first two games. Starting pitcher Shane Bieber was brilliant too on Wednesday, striking out eight over six innings pitched and not allowing a single run after the first-inning shot by Rodriguez.
Heading into Game 4 of the series on Thursday, the home team still has yet to win a game. But this might be where the rest advantage that the Blue Jays banked from the previous series can really begin to come into play.
