TORONTO – It is happening every game now, left-handed and right-handed, at home and on the road. When the Seattle Mariners take the lead for good this October, Jorge Polanco makes it happen.

“He’s been carrying this lineup this postseason,” catcher Cal Raleigh said after Game 2 of the American League Championship Series, with the Mariners halfway to a pennant. “Huge, huge bat in the middle of the order.”

A guy who smashes 60 home runs, as Raleigh did this season – that’s a huge, huge bat. A 12-year veteran who hit .213 last year and returned to Seattle for a steep discount? That’s not your typical huge, huge bat.

These days, though, it sounds about right. Polanco’s three-run homer broke a tie in the fifth inning Monday, propelling Seattle to a 10-3 thrashing of the Toronto Blue Jays at

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