TORONTO — Cal Raleigh homered with the final swing of his dream season. At that moment, halfway through the seventh game of the American League Championship Series, the distant star wasn’t so blurry anymore. The Seattle Mariners had never seen it so clearly.

And then it disappeared. A home run by George Springer of the Toronto Blue Jays shattered the telescope and upended the ship. The franchise that has known only choppy seas for nearly 50 years capsized again.

The season is over. The World Series, as ever, is something for other fans in other cities.

“I love every guy in this room,” Raleigh said at his locker late Monday night, as the Blue Jays celebrated their 4-3 victory, in the game and the series, on the Rogers Centre turf.

“But, ultimately, it’s not what we wanted. I hate to use

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