By the time Blue Jays fan Suzanne Jangda and her two kids arrived at school Thursday morning the yard was empty and students were already inside. They were late.

The morning had been a scramble and “hard for all of us,” said Jangda, because they had stayed up later than usual to watch the Jays trounce the Seattle Mariners in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series.

“I am a big Blue Jays fan and turning my kids into them, too, is my mission,” said Jangda, who was anticipating another late school night for Thursday’s game, and a more manageable Friday night game as the series continued from Seattle’s T-Mobile Park.

Wednesday’s game ran nearly three hours long, but she had let the boys watch until the fifth inning, about an hour after their usual 8 p.m. bedtime and long enough to

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