SEATTLE — In this American League Championship Series, the worst thing you can be is the home team. It’s better to play nine innings in hell than to host one of these strange affairs.

In Toronto, the Blue Jays forgot how to hit and dropped two games. Now in Seattle, the Mariners have taken some scissors to their cushion, and they appear committed to self-sabotage until every feather spills out of the thing.

During the regular season, these teams recorded the best two home records in the American League. They had a combined .648 winning percentage in their ballparks. Both teams also finished below .500 on the road. But you can bury that 162-game pile of evidence. This pennant pursuit has lured Seattle and Toronto into a parallel dimension, and everything is fickle around here. Their frien

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