To get this close to the peak, so close that a city, a country and a packed and pumping downtown Toronto stadium was craving for a party, nothing has come easily for the hard-working Blue Jays.

So would you really have expected anything less than what happened on Friday and what awaits the following night?

What has turned out to be a magnificent World Series will go the distance between the last-to-first Jays and the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers.

After the National League champs rode a clutch three-run third inning, then hung on for dear life to survive the ninth for a 3-1 win, Game 7 and all its sporting splendour is now officially a date at the Rogers Centre for Saturday night.

Nervous and pressure-packed, sure, but fitting that what has been an at-times remarkable and almo

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