The Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners gave baseball fans a series to remember in the first seven-game ALCS in five years.

One game away from reaching a first World Series in franchise history, Seattle fell heartbreakingly short in Monday’s 4-3 defeat against the Toronto Blue Jays. The gut-wrenching loss ensures that the Mariners’ unwanted record as the only team in Major League Baseball never to appear at the Fall Classic remains very much intact.

George Springer put Toronto ahead with a three-run homer in the seventh inning and the Blue Jays advanced to the World Series for the first time since 1993 by beating the Seattle Mariners 4-3 in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series.

Standing on the verge of making the first World Series appearance in Mariners history, Seattle fell just short. Their amazing run down the stretch and through t

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After coming home with a huge advantage in the American League Championship Series, the Seattle Mariners quickly squandered it on the mound.

This is it. The Seattle Mariners can clinch their first appearance in the World Series with a win in tonight’s ALCS Game 6 against the Toronto Blue Jays.

This article was originally published on www.si.com/fannation/mlb/fastball as Mariners' Cal Raleigh Makes Gut-Wrenching Admission About ALCS Loss. Why is winning such an incredible feeling, especially at the highest level of competition? It's because losing is so utterly painful.