On Sunday, at Toronto’s b aseball b asilica , in a city hunched over the kneeling bench : Answered prayers.

Perhaps beseeching S t. Rita of Cascia, the unofficial saint of baseball, though more divinely known as the saint of impossible causes.

Which is how one win away from the World Series for the Blue Jays surely must have looked like eight mo n ths ago at the start of spring training. Or even a week ago , after dropping the first two games of the American League championship series at home to t he Seattle Mariners . Or just 48 hours previously, when the roof caved in at T-Mobile Park and many wanted the manager’s head on a pike.

Prayers answered or a miracle for the players, who ne ver harboured a shred of doub

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