It may have gone down to the final day of the regular season, but the Toronto Blue Jays managed to secure the AL East crown at last with a 13-4 romp over the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 162 on Sunday night. The Blue Jays own the tiebreaker over the Yankees so they controlled their own fate, and they managed to hold their end of the bargain — receiving a bye to the ALDS in the process.

Had the Blue Jays stumbled and lost in Game 162, they would have had to play the Boston Red Sox in a three-game series, which is a dangerous proposition considering how Boston can just ride out Garrett Crochet and need just another herculean pitching performance from the rest of their pitching staff to end Toronto's World Series hopes. But now, they can at least rest up and wait for the Red Sox and Yankees to

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