The Seattle Mariners’ postseason heartbreak featured a deflating, late-game home run with a pitching decision that will be questioned throughout the offseason for the second straight time after a playoff run.

Only this time it came in the game that ended their season.

Heartbreak: Seattle Mariners sunk by Blue Jays in ALCS Game 7

The Mariners were eight outs away from their first trip to the World Series. The Blue Jays were threatening to erase their 3-1 lead with runners on second and third and one out in the seventh inning. With slugger George Springer coming up to the plate, Dan Wilson replaced Bryan Woo with Eduard Bazardo.

Springer clobbered a go-ahead, three-run home run two pitches later, and the Blue Jays held on for a 4-3 win to end the Mariners’ season in Game 7 of the America

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