Alek Manoah

Alek Manoah seems to be ready for the pressure of the MLB playoffs as he starts for the Blue Jays in Game 1 against the Mariners.

If the Blue Jays want to stop the Mariners’ playoff story dead in its tracks, they’ll need Manoah to be at his peak form for Game 1. Manoah recalled an interesting quote from his coaches about the pressures of playing in the MLB playoffs. The Toronto Blue Jays might be a staple of the MLB playoffs, but a certain star of theirs is getting his first taste of postseason action.

With WVU baseball great Alek Manoah taking the mound for the Blue Jays in game 1 of their Wild Card Round tonight, it's important Mountaineer fans know ...

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TORONTO -- After regular-season campaigns with very few dull moments, two postseason-hungry clubs are ready for October. The Blue Jays and Mariners face off ...

Follow him on Twitter [@KeeganMatheson](https://twitter.com/KeeganMatheson). Follow him on Twitter at [@DKramer_](http://twitter.com/DKramer_). As for who’s not, Crawford’s inconsistencies have stretched all the way into a two-month period, with the shortstop slashing .200/.340/.259 (.599 OPS) over the final two months. Blue Jays: The Blue Jays are ready to be aggressive, a mindset they’ve been preaching since Schneider took the reins in July. Because of how green they are, they could be susceptible to a sink-or-swim effect, but they’ve also shown late-inning resiliency to punch back when the stakes are high. PT, ABC (Sportsnet in Canada) Both Gausman and manager John Schneider said this shouldn’t impact his expected Game 2 start, but it’s worth keeping an eye on over the next 24 hours. Game 3 (if necessary): Sunday, 2 p.m. September’s AL Pitcher of the Month is peaking at the right time, and he should benefit from some extra rest just like he did in his last outing. Though his postseason experience is limited to 2020, when there were no fans in the stands, Castillo has already established himself as a ET/1 p.m. Since the Blue Jays secured home-field advantage by finishing the regular season with the best record among AL Wild Card teams, at 92-70, all of the games in the best-of-three set will be played at Rogers Centre.

Alek Manoah opens up about why he defended Alejandro Kirk, his mother's influence and the jewellery he wears on the pitching mound.

We have a really exciting team, and we want to show the country how great we can be and bring playoff baseball back to Canada.” As long as you work hard and you love what you do and you have a really good passion, you have a really good chance of realizing your dreams. She’s given us the blueprint, she works really hard—everything that she sacrifices, everything that she works for, that she aspires to be. But hopefully I can get a trim on the last day we’re playing at home, and it will last me through the road trip.” All the guys are really excited to get into the post-season.” The Blue Jays are in the post-season! I also have a little leaf—it’s a leaf outlined in blue. That goes to show even more how many people and how many kids Kirk has inspired.” There are players of all shapes and sizes from all different demos—what matters is how hard you work and how much you love the game. What’s actually embarrassing for the sport is people that go by the name of Matthew and have never played a day in the big leagues thinking they can control the narrative and stereotypes. (Manoah donated the $100,000 proceeds to There are plenty of people who say a bunch of positive things, too, but the negativity is definitely there.