Toronto Blue Jays have clinched the top wild-card seed in the American League and will play their first-round series at Rogers Centre starting Friday.The Blue Jays locked up the spot Monday night when the Seattle Mariners dropped a 4-3 decision to the Detroit Tigers.Toronto defeated the Baltimore Orioles 5-1 earlier in the evening in a rain-shortened game.Major League Baseball changed the wild-card format for this post-season.
Three wild-card teams will make the cut in each league this year along with the three division winners.The Blue Jays, seeded fourth in the American League, will host the fifth-seeded team — either the Mariners or the Tampa Bay Rays — in a best-of-three series.
All games will be played in Toronto.The winner will advance to play the top-seeded Houston Astros in the best-of-five AL Division Series starting Oct.
11.The sixth-seeded club will open against the No. 3 Cleveland Guardians on Friday in the other AL wild-card series. The winner will take on the No.