Cano’s sacrifice fly lifts Seattle past Toronto 2-1 in 12

Follow our live coverage, analysis and commentary above as the Mariners (79-72) face the Blue Jays (83-68) on Wednesday at Safeco Field. Didn’t try to do too much.

Nick Vincent (4-4) pitched two scoreless innings for the win. All nine players in the Blue Jays’ starting lineup scored.Encarnacion hit his 42nd home run of the season – two behind American League leader Mark Trumbo – and drove in three runs.Robinson Cano went 2-for-4 and drove in the only two runs for the Mariners, who had seven hits in the loss and have now scored two runs or fewer in five of their past six games.The Blue Jays scored eight runs in the fourth inning – a frame that took almost 40 minutes to complete, highlighted by towering two-run home runs from Martin and Saunders as they rallied from a 2-0 deficit.Saunders, a former Mariner, broke a 2-2 tie with his 24th home run of the season, a 385-foot shot to right. I was behind in the count, I was simply trying to put the ball in play. They’re hardworking people and they love us – good, bad or ugly. His ball has some run. We talked early in the year that was something that I thought needed to get better.

Seattle shortstop Mike Freeman prevented the go-ahead run from scoring in the 10th with a diving grab of Kevin Pillar’s one-out liner with a runner on third.

“At the end of the day it’s what it’s going to take to get ready to pitch that game”, Sanchez said of his return to normalcy.

The Blue Jays plan to have starter Aaron Sanchez (13-2) back on the mound after a blister delayed his latest start.

“We’ll manage it start to start but the gloves have been off all year, so our gloves are still off when it comes to the opportunities in front of him and as long as he’s recovering well and he’s healthy then he should continue to pitch”, said general manager Ross Atkins. Sanchez, making his first start in 10 days, posted another quality start, allowing one run in six innings, on four hits with three walks and four strikeouts. “That was unbelievable”, Hernandez said. Lee has drawn a couple of starts over that span, but with little more to show for it, going 2-for-13 without a walk. Kluber (18-9) matched his career high in wins and is 10-1 in his last 14 starts. While his value to the Toronto Blue Jays can not be underscored, he, like most of the rest of the players on his team, has suffered from periods of inconsistency (most notably a recent 0 for 20-something) that have cost the Blue Jays gravely during September in both the American League East and AL Wild Card standings. Back in mid-August at Yankee Stadium, Encarnacion hit his 34th home run of the season, while driving in his 100th run, during that unusual rain delayed game in which the Jays’ offence came to life after it stopped raining.

After being on the wrong end of a four-game sweep at the hands of the first-place – and arch-nemesis, of course – Boston Red Sox, the New York Yankees enter the last two weeks of the major league season with their playoff hopes on life support.

Mariners: Seattle is running out of time. The Mariners followed an eight-game winning streak by losing four out of five.

TORONTO: The Blue Jays are 7-1 in Happ’s last eight road starts and have won 22 of his last 28 starts overall. Only one of their three remaining series is against a team ahead of them (Houston) in the wild card race.

“Twenty wins. It’s hard to do at the big league level, the best baseball in the world”, Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. “You are not going to have your A-game every night but you keep your team in there and he did that for us”.