TORONTO (AP) — The Seattle Mariners have never been this close to reaching the World Series.

It still feels distant to pitcher Logan Gilbert.

“We’re still a long ways away,” Gilbert said Saturday, the day after a 6-2 comeback victory in Game 5 that put Seattle one win away from its first American League pennant. “We’re nine long innings away from where we want to be, and I think everybody gets that.”

Whether it takes nine innings or 15, as it did in the AL Division Series clincher, Gilbert and the Mariners will get their shot at the pennant on Sunday, taking a 3-2 lead into AL Championship Series Game 6. The winner of the best-of-seven series faces the Los Angeles Dodgers starting Friday.

“It’s huge,” Gilbert said. “It’s been such a long year. Just to get to this point is amazing. But

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