Deep Left Field with Mike Wilner

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Deep Left Field with Mike Wilner episodes

October 20, 2025 Bonus video: Game 7 pre-game
We are on the field during BP prior to the start of Game 7. We all know the stakes. Keep your eyes and ears out for more episodes coming tonight and tomorrow morning.
3 min
October 20, 2025 One more win. Blue Jays vs. Mariners. Game 7
Guests: Blue Jays infielders Andres Gimenez and Isiah Kiner-Falefa The Blue Jays are the closest they've been to the World Series since 1993 thanks to their 6-2 win over the Seattle Mariners that evened up the American League championship series at three wins apiece. In this playoff bonus episode of Deep Left Field, we take you through Sunday's big win with two of the key cogs – Andres Gimenez, who was involved in all three consecutive inning-ending double plays (two with the bases loaded) that the Jays turned in the third, fourth and fifth innings, and Isiah Kiner-Falefa, who had a hand in two of them and also drove in a run with an infield single. As well, we open the mailbag at [email protected] to hear your thoughts on all things Blue Jays as they move toward their first post-season Game 7 in 40 years. A trip to the World Series for the first time in over three decades is on the line Monday night, and Deep Left Field is here with you every step of the way.
1 hr 2 min
October 20, 2025 Overnight bonus: Blue Jays force Game 7
We are bringing you a quick post-Game 6 reaction from the Rogers Centre in the wee hours of Monday, October 20. A full reaction episode will be available before you start your day.
4 min
October 19, 2025 Bonus video: Pre-game set up during batting practice
Before Game 6 of the ALCS in Toronto, where the Blue Jays look to stave off elimination and force Game 7 Monday night, Mike Wilner was on the field during Blue Jays batting practice to break down the stakes of this game (spoiler: the Jays need to win).
3 min
October 19, 2025 Jays must win or the season will come to a close
Guest: Blue Jays closer Jeff Hoffman For the first time this year, the Blue Jays will take the field knowing that if they lose, their season is over. The Jays dug themselves a huge hole by losing the first two games of the American League championship series at home against the Seattle Mariners, but they went up to the Pacific Northwest and evened up the series before their gut-wrenching loss in Game 5. In today's playoff bonus episode of Deep Left Field, Jays' closer Jeff Hoffman joins us to describe watching Friday's eighth-inning meltdown from the bullpen, and what he had to say to Brendon Little and Seranthony Dominguez after the fact. We also open the mailbag at deepleftfield@the star.ca to answer your Jays' questions and read your comments. Make sure you keep sending them in after Game 6!
51 min
October 18, 2025 Jays get a little too cute in the 8th inning of Game 5, lose 6-2 to Mariners
Guest: Ernie Clement

That was a tough loss. The Jays did what they needed to do in Seattle by winning two out of three to ensure they come back to Toronto with a chance to advance to the World Series (where the winner of the ALCS will face the Dodgers, who beat the Brewers Friday night). But the Jays will have to win both Game 6 on Sunday and Game 7 on Monday. It felt like the Blue Jays were on the cusp of winning this one but in the bottom of the 8th inning, up 2-1, John Schneider went to Brendon Little, who gave up a home run to Cal Raleigh to tie it 2-2, before the wheels came completely off.

We hear from Ernie Clement in the clubhouse after the game.

As always, we'll open up the mailbag at [email protected].
51 min
October 17, 2025 10 years ago, the Jays lost the first two games at home. Then the bat - and script - flipped
28 min
October 17, 2025 Mad Max's furious road win helps Blue Jays tie ALCS at 2-2
Guest: Blue Jays outfielder Myles Straw Game Four of the American League championship series is going to go down in Blue Jays history because of one singular moment – John Schneider's mound visit in the fifth inning in which Max Scherzer basically barked his manager off the mound. In this playoff bonus episode of Deep Left Field, we'll break down that "conversation" for you, and hear from both Scherzer and Schneider, as well as a couple of innocent bystanders. Outside of that moment, the win for the Jays was massive. Scherzer's unexpected performance on the mound, another huge hit from Andres Gimenez, Addison Barger's incredible performance in right field in a game he expected to start at third base, and the Jays are back on even footing in a series that looked lost when they hopped on the plane to Seattle. Myles Straw joins us to talk about that mound moment as well as the resilience of this team that we've seen all season long and, as always, we'll open up the mailbag at [email protected].
55 min
October 16, 2025 Road Warriors: Blue Jays fight back in ALCS, beating Mariners 13-4 in Seattle
Guest: Blue Jays Offensive Player George Springer SEATTLE - The Blue Jays pulled themselves back from the brink and Deep Left Field is here at T-Mobile Park in Seattle to tell you all about it. After looking sluggish, to put it mildly, in the first two games of this American League Championship Series, the Jays flew north and west and found their offence somewhere along the way. They managed just one hit from the third inning on over Games 1 and 2 and had 17 after the second inning in Game 3. George Springer had three of those - including a fourth-inning solo home run that moved him into a tie for fourth place overall on the all-time post-season home run list - and he joins us to talk about other things, such as Shane Bieber's performance, and the moment the right-hander sent chills through the dugout, the Jays' return to form and their five gold glove finalists that were announced Wednesday. Also, as always throughout the playoffs, we open up the mailbag at [email protected]. This time, it's a much happier mailbag than it was after Game 2.
47 min
October 15, 2025 Before Game 3 in Seattle, we talk to Blue Jays Addison Barger, Davis Schneider and DeMarlo Hale
Guests: Blue Jays third baseman Addison Barger, left fielder Davis Schneider, associate manager DeMarlo Hale Deep Left Field is on the road in Seattle with your Toronto Blue Jays as they try to get back in their best-of-seven American League Championship Series with the Seattle Mariners, having lost the first two games. We assess the mood around the clubhouse with Addison Barger and Davis Schneider, the latter of whom may have thrown a little shade on Jose Bautista's famous Bat Flip home run as we spoke on the 10th anniversary of the big swing. DeMarlo Hale was the Jays' bench coach when Bautista hit the homer that shook the baseball world but, more importantly, he was on the staff when that Jays team overcame a two-games-to-none playoff deficit, having lost both games at home. We talk to him about that accomplishment, now that the Jays are trying to do it again. And, as always, we take your comments and questions in the mailbag at [email protected].
40 min

About Deep Left Field with Mike Wilner

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Longtime Toronto Blue Jays radio voice Mike Wilner hosts Deep Left Field, a baseball podcast from the Toronto Star. With great baseball coverage, opinion and analysis, Deep Left Field has everything…