Blue Jays fans in B.C. stay optimistic as team heads into Game 3 of ALCS after back-to-back losses

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Despite back-to-back losses to the Seattle Mariners successful the archetypal 2 games of the ALCS, B.C.-based Blue Jays fans are optimistic the squad volition rally for Game 3 of the best-of-seven bid astatine T-Mobile Park successful Seattle connected Wednesday night.

Jays fans successful B.C. anticipation the squad tin crook things astir connected the roadworthy successful Seattle

Courtney Dickson · CBC News

· Posted: Oct 15, 2025 10:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: October 15

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Thanksgiving Monday wasn't a large time to beryllium a Toronto Blue Jays fan.

As turkeys roasted successful ovens crossed the country, supporters watched arsenic Canada’s lone Major League Baseball franchise was baked, boiled, stuffed and mashed, losing to the Seattle Mariners 10-3 successful Game 2 of the American League Championship Series (ALCS).

“It was truly pugnacious to watch,” said Mike McDowall of Prince Rupert, B.C. “Our pitching truly wasn't overly effectual and our hitting was truly sleepy.”

Despite back-to-back losses to the Mariners — a squad galore connected Canada’s West Coast person adopted arsenic their ain — B.C.-based Blue Jays fans are optimistic the squad volition rally for Game 3 of the best-of-seven bid astatine T-Mobile Park successful Seattle connected Wednesday night.

“I inactive person religion successful this team,” McDowall told CBC’s Daybreak North. “They've amazed maine each season, truthful I don't spot wherefore it would extremity now.”

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This Toronto Blue Jays instrumentality near Game 2 of the ALCS against the Seattle Mariners aboriginal saying, 'We don't person a prayer.'

Losing the archetypal 2 games of the ALCS was a spot of a disappointment pursuing the Jays' triumph implicit the New York Yankees successful the American League Division Series.

“As a Jays instrumentality you ever similar watching your squad win, particularly if it's against the soiled Yankees, part rival,” McDowall said.

Jays instrumentality Lisa Mckinnon of Smithers said the precocious of defeating the Yankees was “just excessively much, excessively fast” for the Blue Jays.

“We conscionable request to get backmost to basics and focus.”

Memories of back-to-back titles

The Jays’ 2025 post-season tally reminds McDowall of the team’s World Series titles successful 1992 and 1993 — backmost erstwhile he, similar many, became a dedicated fan.

“My grandma was a Blue Jays instrumentality arsenic good and I had the privilege successful ‘92 to spell with her down to Seattle for a four-game acceptable to ticker the Jays, truthful that solidified watching those guys.”

Mckinnon remembers watching Game 6 of the 1993 World Series erstwhile Joe Carter deed a three-run walk-off location tally successful the bottommost of the ninth inning, clinching back-to-back titles for the Jays.

“Our TV, you person 2 channels. It's benignant of fuzzy. You perceive the cheering, but you can't truly fig retired what's going connected until aft they've announced it. It was beauteous exciting.”

Tyler Carpentier of Kamloops started watching the Jays astir the aforesaid clip arsenic McDowall and Mckinnon — a bully clip to commencement pursuing the team, helium said — but his wife, Emily Carpentier, became a instrumentality much recently, astir 15 years agone during the days of Jose Bautista.

“Every twelvemonth I'm conscionable a bigger fan,” she told CBC’s Daybreak Kamloops.

Two radical wearing Blue Jays jerseys watching a shot game

Fans hoping tides crook successful Seattle

At 5:08 p.m. PT Wednesday, the Jays volition instrumentality connected the Mariners successful Seattle. But their existent bluish fans don’t deliberation playing connected the roadworthy volition beryllium a problem.

“The past travel they went to Seattle, they swept them,” Mckinnon said.

During a three-game acceptable astatine T-Mobile Park successful May, the Jays bushed the Mariners 6-3 doubly successful a row, and 9-1 successful the 3rd game.

“Never number them out,” Mckinnon said. “They've got the offence, they've got the pitching.”

Tyler Carpentier said he’s optimistic, offering proposal Ted Lasso fans volition appreciate: beryllium a goldfish.

“They request to person a abbreviated memory,” Carpentier said. “It's a very, precise humbling athletics and it'll enactment you successful your spot really, truly quick. So if they're capable to crook the page, past they tin get a mates wins successful Seattle.”

Emily Carpentier said the squad conscionable needs to enactment those 2 losses down them.

“It's a full caller shot game.”

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