For the first couple of innings, it looked like it might be one of
those ALDSes as the Jays jumped all over Rays ace Josh Carsello to take a 4-0 lead. And after Bo Angeac homered to get one back in the bottom of the 2nd, Carsello loaded the bases again in the 3rd with one out and his day was over. And Damani Cotton came in, escaped the inning without further damage and went 3 2/3 of scoreless relief to buy time for the Rays bats to get going and come back for an 8-4 win in the series opener. It was a team effort, although Jon Jimenez had a big 2-run double and Angeac and Daniel Vasquez went deep back-to-back in the 7th to put it away. Kikuo Kawase got the last out of the game for the save after Mike Wherry put two men on in the 9th. It wasn't all good news, though - Tim Siqueiros' Rays career is over as he suffered a torn labrum. The longest-tenured current Ray (with the team since 2029) was due to be a free agent this winter.
In the other DS games:
The Brewers are one game away from the NLCS, the Astros blew a 5-2 lead in the 9th only to pull it out with back-to-back doubles off former Ray Jordan Diaz, and speaking of former Rays the Cardinals got 5 homers from them with Jasson Dominguez, Nate Clark and D'Andre Hodges combining to get St. Louis even in their series.