SEATTLE — For two games and seven innings in the American League Championship Series here, the Seattle Mariners could do almost nothing right against the Toronto Blue Jays. Then their hitters did what they do best — and now the Mariners are closer to the World Series than they’ve ever been.
Cal Raleigh tied the score in Game 5 with a leadoff homer off Brendon Little in the bottom of the eighth, and after two walks and a hit batter, Eugenio Suárez followed with a go-ahead, opposite-field grand slam off Seranthony Domínguez. It was Suárez’s second homer of the game and lifted the Mariners to a stirring 6-2 victory over the Blue Jays at rollicking T-Mobile Park.
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The Mariners — the only MLB team to never win a pennant — can erase that distinction in Game 6 on Sunday in Toronto.
Dumper delivers for Mariners in the eighth
Raleigh hit left-handed in his first three at-bats of Game 5. John Schneider, the Blue Jays’ manager, turned him around in the eighth inning by putting lefty Little into
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