“It’s heartbreaking.”

“It just sucks. It hurts.”

Words uttered quietly in a stunned Seattle Mariners clubhouse by Bryan Woo and Cal Raleigh, no doubt echoed by countless fans wherever they found themselves Monday night.

Let it out. Monday night in Toronto was one of the toughest losses a team could take. A World Series that seemed so tantalizingly close in the 49 minutes and 46 seconds between Raleigh’s home run in the fifth inning – extending the Mariners’ lead to two runs over the Blue Jays – and the dagger delivered by George Springer in the seventh, dangled before them and quickly snatched away .

Raleigh could only watch as the Mariners’ hopes quickly faded away in the top of the ninth inning. First, from his familiar spot at the dugout opening, left foot on the top step, right

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