At a watch party at T-Mobile Park for Game 6 of the American League Championship Series, one fan’s sign captured the collective ache of an entire city: “Mariners please you have to do it.”

Even as the Mariners played 2,000 miles away in Toronto, thousands gathered at the Seattle stadium to watch the game on the massive video board, hoping to witness the moment their team punched its ticket to its first-ever World Series.

That moment didn’t come on Sunday. The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Mariners 6-2, forcing a winner-take-all Game 7 in Toronto on Monday.

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