> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Three Errors, Three Double Plays, Third Jays Win: Mariners Drop Game 6 in Toronto - URL: https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/three-errors-three-double-plays-third-jays-win-mariners-drop-game-6/ - Published: 2025-10-20T04:34:03.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-08T06:17:44.000Z - Author: Callaghan Bluechel - Tags: News, Mariners, 2025 MLB Playoffs, ALCS, Logan Gilbert, Eduard Bazardo, Matt Brash, Josh Naylor, Randy Arozarena, Eugenio Suarez, Cal Raleigh [Embed from Getty Images](https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/2242103832?ref=emeraldcityspectrum.com)Embed TORONTO, Canada — The Mariners had a hole in the boat as soon as it left the dock on Sunday night, failing to take advantage of ample opportunities with the bat and dropping the ball—quite literally—with the glove. Their three errors were the most out of any game at all in 2025, and no team had committed three errors and grounded into three double plays in a postseason game since the Yankees did so in Game 2 of the 2009 ALCS. Unlike those lucky Bronx Bombers, the Mariners didn’t have the breathing room to overcome those mistakes. Toronto held a lid on Seattle’s bats for the whole game, and with each of the trio of errors resulting (directly or indirectly) in Blue Jays crossing the plate, the game got out of hand rather quickly. The final 6-2 score underplayed just how defeated the Mariners were in Game 6. ### Yesavage works into the sixth inning, and although John Scheider takes him out before the frame is over, better bullpen usage saves the Jays any potential headache. Toronto rookie Trey Yesavage, coming off an 11-strikeout masterpiece against the Yankees, had fared uneasily in his five-run ALCS Game 2 outing against Seattle. Were the Mariners able to get the job done with men on base Sunday, Yesavage’s performance would have resembled his shakiness from six days prior, but alas for Seattle, their season-long issues with men in scoring position continued in force in Game 6. Two consecutive innings with the bases loaded and one out—each a situation with a 1.61 run expectancy—ended due to the pitcher’s best friend. Situational adjustment seemed hard to come by as both Cal Raleigh and J.P. Crawford rolled over to the right side of the infield to begin inning-ending double plays. Seattle ended up grounding into inning-ending twin killers three frames in a row, but the third one stung a little less due to only one base being occupied. Yesavage brought a shutout into the sixth inning and, with two quick outs, it looked like he would go at least two thirds of the game. Josh Naylor was the first Mariner to punish a mistake from Yesavage, blasting a middle-middle splitter deep into the right field grandstands. Arozarena flicked a decently-placed slider into right field right after, sending Schneider to Louis Varland. Although Eugenio Suárez knocked him in on a bloop down the line, J.P. Crawford struck out to end Seattle’s last rally. Once the eighth came around, Toronto manager John Schneider put lockdown reliever Jeff Hoffman on the mound for the final six outs. Using the high-end guy worked out a lot better for the Jays than Brendon Little had in Game 5, and Seattle went down quietly in the last two frames. ### Logan Gilbert struggles once again out of the gate, letting through five of Toronto’s six runs. The Blue Jays had rattled Gilbert early the first time they faced him in the ALCS, forcing him out of the game after the third with three early runs on the board. Although the Jays hadn't capitalized against the Mariners’ bullpen in that game, they showed a good eye for Gilbert’s splitter, only whiffing twice on a pitch that had gotten more swings and misses than any other in 2025. Gilbert’s Game 2 shakiness continued in the second inning of Game 6, and it wasn’t helped by the defense behind him. Daulton Varsho led off with a single to left center that became two bases once the ball dropped out of Julio Rodríguez’ glove, Ernie Clement filled first base due to an error on the transfer from Suárez at third—if neither of those errors had happened, there would have been two outs on a double play—and two consecutive singles brought the Jays up two runs. Things had a chance to get much, much worse. George Springer walked the bases loaded with one out, and although Nathan Lukes struck out swinging, Gilbert had to face Vladimir Guerrero Jr. with the bags packed. Right on cue, Guerrero scorched the ball to the left side at 116 miles an hour off the bat, but Suárez got his glove on it in time to retire Guerrero. It didn’t get much easier from then on out. Gilbert didn’t seem to have much control over any of his pitches, leaving a lot of sliders out over the plate and spiking many of his splitters. Ernie Clement and Addison Barger both pounced on two-out third-inning mistakes out over the plate from Seattle’s hurler, the first bouncing off the top of the left field wall for a triple and the second flying high over the fence in right center to double Toronto’s lead. Gilbert worked through the fourth and started the beginning of the fifth, but yet another hanging breaking ball ended up crushed before an out could be recorded. This time it was Vladimir Guerrero Jr. doing the honors, pushing the Jays’ lead to 5-0 with a solo shot. ### Eduard Bazardo does his job from the bullpen, but with the rest of the team around him flailing, it ends up mattering little. Dan Wilson saw the writing on the wall after Gilbert gave up Guerrero’s moonshot, and so Eduard Bazardo trotted out from the bullpen to log some clean innings. Other than a bad off day in Detroit, Bazardo had been lights-out all postseason, and that continued for two innings on Sunday. The Jays didn’t get anything going against Bazardo, who got heaps of weak contact by jamming righties with his sinker. Matt Brash, on the other hand, was far less effective during his frame in the seventh. 11 of his 21 pitches were balls, but those he got over the plate were non-competitive in just how much zone they caught. Guerrero wore an errant heater with one out and Alejandro Kirk shot a single up the middle to bring him to second. Right after getting two runs back in the top of the sixth, the M’s were at risk of making any prospective comeback slip out of their grasp. ### Cal Raleigh makes up for his Game 5 heroics with some bad play in Game 6, dropping the ball at the plate and behind the dish. Although his game-tying blast on Friday afternoon was the stuff of legend, Cal Raleigh plummeted to earth in Game 6, going 0-4 with three strikeouts and an error. It’s rare that a player wishes they got a golden sombrero, yet for Raleigh, that would have been better than what happened. The worst moment of the night for Seattle’s catcher was his inning-ending double play with the bags full—where a single would have tied a game with the M’s then trailing by two—but a close second was when he gave a run back on the other side of the ball. Matt Brash got Daulton Varsho to wave and miss at a big slider with one gone and two on in the bottom of the seventh, but it bounced off Raleigh and the runners took off. Raleigh, panicking, failed to set his feet as he hurled the ball towards third, and it flew into left field. Guerrero raced home for Toronto’s sixth run. While the complete lack of offense—and the fact that Brash walked two guys later on, which would have pushed Guerrero through anyway—meant that Seattle’s third error of the game had little direct effect, the message it sent to both dugouts was clear: the Mariners were falling apart. ### Game 7 is set for Monday night. Monday night’s Game 7 looms ahead of both teams. George Kirby, taking the hill in the third elimination game of his career, will get the ball for the first Game 7 in Mariners history. On the other end, the Blue Jays look to Shane Bieber, who dealt handily with the M’s earlier in the series. One of the Mariners or Blue Jays will go home in sorrow; the other will set foot in Paradise.