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Brent Stecker

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Editor, SeattleSports.com. Veteran millennial journalist (just means I can Google). Ephrata kid. 1/2 🇨🇦. Zag fan. Player of guitars. I have opinions about outfield defense.

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Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · Jan 10

"Well, it's no Honky Cat." -- Me reacting to every song that isn't Honky Cat

Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 13h

This ALCS really is baseball bedlam, just not in the way I expected going into the series. Rogers Centre played more like T-Mobile Park, and vice versa.

Unexpected expected from here on out.

Seattle Sports @seattlesports710.bsky.social · 14h

Welcome to the bizarro ALCS, as the first three games between the #Mariners and Blue Jays have shown that you may as well stop trying to expect anything other than the unexpected, writes Seattle Sports' @brentstecker.bsky.social.

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It's the bizarro ALCS between Seattle Mariners and Blue Jays

The first three games of the ALCS between the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays have made it clear that we should expect the unexpected.

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Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 15h

Recent history -- I could have said since 2022, but that's what I was going off of because the park has different dimensions now than it did 24 years ago.

Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 15h

We sure Ernie Clement isn't a fourth-generation Boone?

Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 16h

I think he's been good generally in the playoffs because he's been managing like they can't afford to lose. Does not appear he brought that mentality to tonight with the 2-0 lead. Do-or-die Wilson > normal Wilson

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Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 16h

This is definitely a bizarro ALCS. No one expected the Mariners to win Game 1, let alone come home with a 2-0 lead. And you couldn't really expect the Blue Jays' bats to wait until getting to T-Mobile with temps in the 50s to get hot.

The unexpected will be expected the rest of the series.

Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 16h

I know jinxes. And statement WAS a fact.

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Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 16h

Blue Jays gonna have to go to their bullpen eventually, but Bieber's pitch count is 63 through four. Mariners gotta drive it up as much as possible in the fifth, because he's rolling.

Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 16h

The Mariners just have to score at least one more run over the rest of this game than they've scored in any home playoff game period since 2001 in order to win tonight.

Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 16h

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Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 16h

Kirby gave Vlad two straight sliders in the middle of the plate. He watched the first, absolutely hammered the second. Mariners' gameplan on the mound against the Blue Jays unraveling a bit this inning.

Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 17h

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Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 17h

Blue Jays going full powder blue in Game 3 of the first ALCS between baseball's two 1977 babies.

Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 17h

Every FOX analyst picked at least one team to score six runs tonight, at T-Mobile Park, which hasn't had a team score more than three runs in a postseason game in recent history.

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Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 2d

My ingrained Mariners optimism from being 9 in 1995 and 15 in 2001 is finally being vindicated.

Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 2d

Octubre Polanco

Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 2d

I was expecting baseball bedlam. Game 2 might be gearing up to deliver.

Seattle Sports @seattlesports710.bsky.social · 4d

The #Mariners and Blue Jays enter the ALCS with history, a truly fascinating on-field matchup and even bad blood.

Seattle Sports' @brentstecker.bsky.social breaks down 5 reasons you can expect baseball bedlam with a spot in the World Series on the line.

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Seattle Mariners-Blue Jays ALCS has ingredients for bedlam

The Seattle Mariners' ALCS against the Toronto Blue Jays has the potential to be as full of excitement and drama as any series you could imagine.

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Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 2d

One of the rare times it would have been better to have a right-handed first baseman.

Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 2d

First hit allowed in the postseason by Trey Yesavage: three-run Julio bomb.

Unreal.

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Dan @danjoncon.bsky.social · 3d

Shannon pointing out on the post game how incredible it is to have 2 great switch hitters on the team, in Jorge Polanco and Cal Raleigh, and how they both talk and share strategies.

She emphasizes M's fans should not take it for granted.

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Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 3d

The Mariners won Game 1 of the ALCS for the first time since 2000.

Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 3d

B-RYCE MILLER

Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 3d

Also surprised Toronto went to a lefty to face Polanco. He's really been swinging it as a righty.

Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 3d

Cal's homer and Julio's walk chases Gausman and gets the Mariners into the Jays' bullpen, and look what happens.

Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 3d

Bryce Miller really settling in now.

Kevin Gausman can have ace stuff on any given night and it's looking like he has it tonight. Mariners gotta go to work on his pitch count and try to get into Toronto's bullpen where they can do damage.

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Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 3d

I don't know what this GIF is from but I want to watch it as soon as humanly possible. A mountie western? All aboot it

Brent Stecker @brentstecker.bsky.social · 3d

Cal Raleigh strides across the border

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