For more than a century, statistics have been a staple of the game of baseball.

Many of those key numbers currently don’t favour the Toronto Blue Jays as they aim to dig themselves out of a 2-0 hole in the American League Championship Series, starting tonight at T-Mobile Park.

The Mariners, with 3-1 and 10-3 wins in Toronto, are firmly in the driver’s seat with Games 3, 4 and 5, if necessary, in Seattle. The only Major League Baseball team to never play in the World Series feels confident it can end that drought.

“I think it factors in when your backs are up against the wall and there’s only one way out, and that’s to start throwing punches,” Blue Jays closer Jeff Hoffman said on Tuesday. “I think that’s exactly the type of group that we have in the clubhouse. I’m looking forward to the

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