After 48 seasons of disappointment, the Seattle Mariners need only one victory to reach their first World Series, but the Toronto Blue Jays are determined to deny them.

Major League Baseball's best-of-seven American League Championship Series continues on Sunday in Toronto with the Mariners owning a 3-2 edge and the Blue Jays needing to win to force a winner-take-all Monday showdown.

The AL champion will face the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series starting Friday.

The Mariners have never reached the World Series since they and the Blue Jays joined MLB in 1977 as expansion teams. Toronto won the World Series in 1992 and 1993.

Seattle had reached the playoffs only once since 2001 until this season, when the Mariners ousted Detroit in the division series and won tw

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