Stroman starts Game 3 of ALCS with history of stepping up in big games
TORONTO — Marcus Stroman has always relished pitching in high pressure situations. The Blue Jays starter will get a chance to do exactly that in Game 3 of the American League Championship series.
The stakes will be high for Stroman on Monday. Toronto is trailing the Indians 2-0 in the best-of-seven series, and Stroman may find run support hard to come by. The Blue Jays’ mighty offence managed just one run over the first two games in Cleveland.
That’s fine with Stroman, the five-foot-eight right-hander who’s never short on confidence.
“I think that’s why you play the game,” said Stroman, clad in a camo-print cap and a black T-shirt from Toronto rapper Drake’s OVO clothing line. “I think that’s why you get up at 6 a.m. to work out, that’s why you do two a days, to be in this moment, to be in this time.