The feel-good story of this Toronto summer has become the tight and nerve-wracking reality of the final weekend of the Major League Baseball season. There is no middle ground now without an official conclusion. Article content

The Blue Jays are going to the playoffs but it won’t be known, maybe not until Sunday, if they’re going as winners of the American League East or going in as a wild-card entry and a World Series longshot. Article content Article content

This is the best and worst of the wondrous Blue Jays after months of surprises and suspense, victories and unlikely endings — a mirage of a baseball season — with the final month eroded with too many losses and challenges.

The win Thursday night against the Red Sox was enormous and so Blue Jays-like. It came from the nobodies a

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