TORONTO -- If the Mariners wind up winning the whole thing, Jorge Polanco is well on his way to approaching statue territory.

OK, that might be a stretch given that the only monuments outside T-Mobile Park currently are for their members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame -- currently Ken Griffey Jr. and Edgar Martinez, with a third coming next season for Ichiro Suzuki after his enshrinement in July.

But Polanco is nonetheless having that kind of October, and for the only franchise that’s never played in the World Series.

And his heroics in Monday's 10-3 ALCS Game 2 victory over the Blue Jays have them two wins away from that elusive Fall Classic.

Seattle’s slugging second baseman crushed a three-run, tiebreaking homer in the fifth inning that lifted the Mariners at Rogers Cen

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