In the uneasy quiet of the Toronto Blue Jays clubhouse after the Seattle Mariners had opened a 2-0 lead in the American League Championship Series, Max Scherzer stood in front of his corner locker and dropped some knowledge.

Over nearly two decades in the majors, he’d seen enough to know that fortunes can turn quickly in the post-season. “All of a sudden, this is a three-game series out in Seattle and that can be a completely different set of circumstances, games unfolding in different ways than they unfolded here,” he said then. “As disappointing as these first two games were, this is baseball, things can change on a dime.”

Lo and behold, as if spoken into existence by the future Hall of Famer, they very much have, both for the Blue Jays, suddenly tied 2-2 in the best-of-seven series af

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