Despite losing the first two games of the ALCS and trailing the Seattle Mariners 3-1 late into the do-or-die Game 7 on Monday night, George Springer, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and the Toronto Blue Jays completed the multi-layered comeback to punch their first ticket to the World Series in more than three decades.

Their much-heralded rebuild in the post-José Bautista/Edwin Encarnación era, with their construction around a whole new generation of young players, had resulted in exactly six postseason games. Every single one of them was a loss, across three fruitless trips to the AL Wild Card Series.

George Springer hit a three-run home run to put the Blue Jays ahead of the Mariners 4–3 in Game 7 of the ALCS.

The Seattle Mariners are on the brink of their first American League pennant, just one win away after a 6-2 victory against Toronto.

A Kensington Market homeowner says she's tired of the "stampede" of rats that take over Ellen Avenue behind her property almost nightly, and she wants the city to start cleaning up the roadway.

The Raptors enter the 2025-26 campaign aiming to improve upon their 30-52 record from a season ago under third-year head coach Darko Rajaković.

The American League Championship Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners will be decided once and for all in a Game 7 on Monday at Rogers Centre, and the winner will go on to play the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series.

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