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Toronto Blue Jays fans answer the call to cheer on team in Seattle

Adam Laskaris
Adam Laskaris
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Oct 16 2025, 2:50 pm
Toronto Blue Jays fans answer the call to cheer on team in Seattle
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Earlier this week, Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider issued a simple message to Western Canadian fans of the team.

“Get some tickets, and meet us out there [in Seattle],” Schneider said before the team’s first matchup this week against the Seattle Mariners.

And after Toronto’s first road game of the American League Championship Series, it’s safe to say they listened, showing up in droves to support the Jays across the border.

While the Blue Jays entered the game down 2-0 in the series, you’d hardly know it by watching Wednesday. Despite falling 2-0 in the game, Toronto stormed back for 18 hits that ended up in a 13-4 rout.

The crowd was still quite heavily in support of the home side, but pockets of visiting fans were visible throughout the night, many of them standing out in Toronto’s baby blue alternate jerseys.

For those in attendance who travelled to support the Blue Jays, they seemed to make the most of a special moment.

It’s no secret that Blue Jays and Mariners fans coexist in Vancouver and across British Columbia, but the two teams have never met on this big a stage before.

They did face off in 2022 in a two-game Wild Card series, but the stakes to advance to the World Series simply weren’t there.

When do the Blue Jays and Mariners play next?

The Mariners and Blue Jays are right back at it on Thursday night, with the two teams taking to T-Mobile Park once again.

Max Scherzer is scheduled to pitch for Toronto in his first appearance of the playoffs, while Luis Castillo will be getting the ball for Seattle.

“Early in your career, you get in these situations, you ride the roller coaster a little bit more. Now I still ride the roller coaster, I just realize things can change on a dime,” the 41-year-old Scherzer told the media on Wednesday. “You can be as low as possible and all of a sudden things can be as high as possible.”

First pitch is set for 5:33 p.m. PT/8:33 p.m. ET, with the game broadcast nationally on Sportsnet.

“I mean, we’ve got to come out here and not just give 100 per cent, but give 110 per cent,” Castillo said. “We’re at that stage where we have to come in, work and give a little bit more of ourselves than we have to do.”

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