In the top of the sixth inning of Game 2 of the ALCS, FS1 ran a surreal segment of play-by-play broadcaster Joe Davis demonstrating how to carve up a turkey live on air, in honor of Canadian Thanksgiving, which took place that day. Bird carving had already established itself as the theme of the broadcast, as the Seattle Mariners were, at that point, already up 7-3 on the Toronto Blue Jays.
The Mariners went into their series against the Blue Jays on Sunday hoping they could steal one game out of the two from the hottest offense in baseball. Even that hope felt faintly contingent on being able to deploy Bryan Woo, who was left off the ALDS roster due to pectoral inflammation, to patch up their starting pitching woes; just two days prior, the Mariners were forced to exhaust many of their high-leverage bullpen arms and use two extra starters in a 15-inning grindfest against the Detroit Tigers. Woo was not available to pitch in either of the two ALCS games, and yet the Mariners will, somehow, be leaving Toronto with a convincing 2-0 series lead. Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!
