It’s not like Kevin Gausman had never filled a relief role, but in an anything-can-happen Game 7, a pair of Jays starters including the staff ace found themselves in some rather unfamiliar positions. Article content

Of course we were warned it might happen, but hearing that Gausman was warming in the Blue Jays bullpen midway through the sixth inning of Toronto’s eventual 4-3 win over Seattle in Game 7 of the ALCS was still a tad bewildering. Article content Article content

Gausman, the Jays series-opening starters in both the ALDS and ALCS, was now a middle reliever?

And then to hear Chris Bassitt, a guy who was left off the ALDS roster because of injury and was on the ALCS roster supposedly for long relief, was warming up for the high-leverage eighth inning in a one-run game was

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