SEATTLE – The Seattle Mariners are rolling out a different lineup for Game 4 of the American League Championship Series on Thursday night against the Toronto Blue Jays.
Most notably, right fielder Victor Robles is out of the lineup and rookie utilityman Leo Rivas will make his first career postseason start. Rivas will bat ninth and play second base.
Robles crashed into the wall in foul territory while making a leaping catch in the third inning of Wednesday night’s Game 3, but Mariners manager Dan Wilson said during his pregame press conference Thursday that Robles is OK.
“Yeah, he’s fine,” Wilson said. “A great catch, a great effort, which is what we always see from Victor. As we talked about last night, sort of reminiscent of that play in San Francisco going in there hard, but that