TORONTO – Six months of grinding to qualify for the meaningful games of the seventh are over and this Toronto Blue Jays season spent walking through a dream continues, with the chance to push back the awakening deep into October.

An American League East title, the club’s first since 2015, secured Sunday by Alejandro Kirk’s two home runs in a 13-4 win over the Tampa Bay Rays, helps clear that path, advancing them directly to the division series after a 94-68 finish, a 20-game jump from a year ago, when all this seemed so far away.

The seeds of 2025’s success, however, were planted amid 2024’s ruin, surviving some early-season tumult before taking hold May 28, when Bo Bichette’s pinch-hit two-run homer in the ninth inning at Texas gave his team a 2-0 win, the start of a 68-40 run to the fi

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