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SEATTLE — As Blue Jays manager John Schneider took two steps onto the field on Thursday night, every conversation he’d ever had with Max Scherzer cycled in his brain like a stop-motion film. That recall, general manager Ross Atkins said recently, is Schneider’s foundation. The fourth-year manager possesses a heightened ability to recite specific plays from specific games even months …

Don’t look now, but the Blue Jays are back in the driver’s seat. All it took was giving the ball to a three-time Cy Young award winner, and letting the offense do the rest of the work. Max Scherzer, pitching for the first time in three weeks, made a legendary start in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series. …

SEATTLE — Max Scherzer wouldn’t come out. In the fifth inning of his Toronto Blue Jays postseason debut, Scherzer fought to stay in. And he won his first postseason game in six years, with the Blue Jays taking down the Mariners on Thursday in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series, 8-2. As manager John Schneider pushed up the …

Blue Jays drop slugger from roster for rest of ALCS vs Mariners  Seattle Sports Jays’ Santander (back) out for rest of playoffs  ESPN Santander out for rest of postseason; Loperfido replaces him on roster  MLB.com Blue Jays remove Anthony Santander from ALCS roster with injury, will be ineligible for World Series  CBS Sports Blue Jays pull Anthony Santander from playoff roster, bringing early end …

The Toronto Blue Jays removed outfielder Anthony Santander from their postseason roster Thursday with Major League Baseball’s approval. Santander is now ineligible to play in the World Series. He was replaced by Joey Loperfido, who’s eligible to play Game 4 and the remainder of the ALCS. The 30-year-old Santander has been dealing with lumbar spine inflammation throughout the postseason and …

Major League Baseball has officially approved the substitution of Joey Loperfido for Anthony Santander on the Blue Jays’ playoff roster. Manager John Schneider told reporters (including Ben Nicholson-Smith of Sportsnet) this evening that Santander was dealing with back stiffness. His season is over. Teams set their postseason rosters at the beginning of each series. They can only make changes mid-series in the …

SEATTLE — The Toronto Blue Jays will be without Anthony Santander for the rest of the postseason. The switch-hitting slugger, Toronto’s biggest offseason acquisition, was removed from the Jays’ postseason roster. Outfielder Joey Loperfido took his place. Santander, who played just 54 regular-season games this year due to a shoulder injury, dealt with back issues in October. With Santander coming …

SEATTLE — The Toronto Blue Jays kept making boxing analogies Wednesday, which was only fitting for a team that needed to get off the mat in the American League Championship Series. “Let’s try to have a few less jabs and a few more uppercuts,” Jays manager John Schneider told the team’s beat reporters before Game 3, explaining his decision to …

George Kirby was in the strike zone – perhaps too much. The Toronto Blue Jays had 18 hits, including five home runs, all within the first three pitches of an at-bat in a 13-4 rout of the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday night that pulled them to 2-1 in the AL Championship Series. Eight of those hits came off Kirby, who …

The American League Championship Series will continue on Wednesday with Game 3 between the Toronto Blue Jays and the Seattle Mariners. The Mariners took each of the first two contests in Toronto, affording them a clear pathway to winning the franchise’s first pennant during the three games played in front of a home crowd. The Blue Jays, meanwhile, now face …