The Toronto Blue Jays and Kansas City Royals look ahead to Friday's Game 6 of the American League Championship Series (ACLS) in Kansas City

Script: SOUNDBITE (English) Ned Yost, Royals manager:

(talks about the big bats of the Toronto lineup- Josh Donaldson, Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion)

"That's a good question. You've got three guys - well, you've got more than three guys, but you've got three guys in the top of that lineup with Donaldson and Bautista and Encarnacion that can do a lot of damage with one swing. So you're kind of playing with fire a little bit pitching around any of those guys with those guys behind them. But what you try to do, you continue to try to make good pitches and nullify their power. You can't give in in situations and just 3-1, 2-1, say, Okay, here it is, hit it. That doesn't work with those guys because they do hit it a long way. So you have to have that mindset that I'm not giving in. I'm going to make my pitch. And if I don't make my pitch, I'm going to try to eliminate as much damage as you can, and end up giving a walk instead of a homer. But if you continue to execute pitches you're going to be in good shape."

SOUNDBITE (English) John Gibbons, Blue Jays manager:

(talks about facing Yordano Ventura in Game 6)

"We haven't seen a lot of him. We did see him the other night. I thought we battled him pretty good. That was the day of all the shadows, so it was tough seeing on both sides. He's got an overpowering arm. If he's on, I sound like a broken record, he's on, when you've got that kind of arm it's going to be a tough go. He really let's them fly, hopefully if he's a little bit wild we take advantage of that. But he's one of those guys, he's there attacking, there's no finesse to him. But I liked our bats against him the other day, hopefully we can do that again."