TORONTO -- The path to the promised land was always going to include a heavy dose of sky-high anxiety.

This is the Mariners, after all, MLB’s only organization that’s never played in the World Series and whose fanbase specializes in stress.

And after a 6-2 loss on Sunday night to the Blue Jays in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series, Seattle faces elimination for just the second time in these playoffs -- with a winner-take-all Game 7 slated for Monday night, right back here at Rogers Centre.

Win, and they advance to play the Dodgers in the Fall Classic, beginning on Friday in Los Angeles. Lose, and this storybook season comes to a stunning end, compounded by what would be one of the franchise’s more stinging finishes, given that they had series leads of 2-0 and 3-2.

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