
Julio Rodriguez’s outburst interrupts interview after loss to the Blue Jays
It was a scream that was heard around the club.
As Mariners outfielder Bryan Woo was giving an interview following the brutal Game 7 ALCS loss to the Blue Jays on Monday night, a guttural scream could be heard from nearby.
Reporters at the scene confirmed that it was Julio Rodriguez, the Mariners’ star outfielder, who expressed his frustration. After losing at the end of the season 4-3.
Rodriguez reached the final out when he swung against Blue Jays closer Jeff Hoffman — on a pitch that would have been ball four — with slugger Cal Raleigh on the on-deck circle.
However, the Mariners would not have been in a position to win had it not been for Rodriguez’s impressive performance.
The Dominican Republic native led off the game with a double and a run scored, then scored in the third period to give Seattle a 2-1 lead.
“When I was a kid in Loma de Cabrera, I never thought I would be able to come this far in this sport,” Rodriguez, 24, said after the match. According to Seattle Fox 13.
“And to be able to hit a home run in Game 7 in the sport that I love and that I grew up playing, it was pretty special.”
Raleigh’s home run in the fifth inning pushed the lead to 3-1 before Toronto put together a franchise-changing run in the seventh.
The Blue Jays got the first two basemen off Woo before a sac hit moved runners to second and third. Woo was then replaced by Eduard Bazardo, who gave up a three-run homer to George Springer that gave Toronto the lead for good.


“I hate to use the word failure, but it is failure,” Raleigh said. “That’s what we expected was to get to a World Series, to win a World Series, that’s the standard and that’s the standard. That’s what we want to hold ourselves accountable to.”
The Mariners won the first two games of the series, took another 3-2 lead and then were within seven points in Game 7 before seeing their season end in heartbreaking fashion.
The Blue Jays will face the heavily favored Dodgers in the World Series starting Friday night in Toronto.
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