TORONTO -- The magic ran out for the Mariners in this 2025 season, one that will go down as one of the most memorable in franchise history, but with an ending whose sting will stand the test of time.

Seattle was in the driver’s seat all night Monday in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series, but it blew a two-run lead when Eduard Bazardo surrendered a back-breaking, go-ahead, three-run homer to Toronto's George Springer in the seventh inning that wound up being the decisive moment .

With it, the Mariners were stunned in a 4-3 loss -- and now, they face an abrupt entry into the offseason, one that they believed would’ve instead begun with a parade.

“It just sucks,” said Cal Raleigh, who was in tears at one point outside the visiting clubhouse at Rogers Centre. “It hurts.”

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