The Mariners returned home with a 2-0 lead in the AFC Championship game and took the lead in the first inning on J-Rod's two-run shot. However, the Blue Jays hitters, who had been in a slump in the previous two games, came back to form and scored 13 runs on 18 hits and 5 bombs, with leadoff hitter VGJ going 4-for-4, and Springer and Gimenez also having 3-hit performances, leaving Mariners' starter Kirby with only four innings of work and eight runs, and each of the subsequent pitchers on the board dropped a few runs as well. Meanwhile, Blue Jays starter Bieber gave up two runs in six innings of 8K pitching, and the Mariners only recovered two runs in the bottom of the eighth inning when Arozarena and Raleigh, the home run king, played back-to-back games. In the end, the Blue Jays won 13-4 over the Mariners to even the series at one game apiece.