SEATTLE -- Three days after losing Game 7 , a freshly shaven Dan Wilson was still looking for the right words to describe the heartbreak of the Seattle Mariners being on the precipice of their first World Series berth.

"It does sting," Wilson, who shed his playoff mustache after the Game 7 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays in the AL Championship Series, said Thursday. "I'm not sure how long the sting's going to last. For a lot of us, it's a tough way to go out, and it's a tough way to end a pretty outstanding season, and in some ways overshadows a lot of the positives that have happened."

Much went right for the Mariners on the way to their first AL West title since 2001, including catcher Cal Raleigh becoming the seventh player in major league history to hit 60 homers in a season,

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