TORONTO -- Eight outs from their first World Series, the Seattle Mariners let it slip away. Their 49th season may have been the most heartbreaking. Eduard Bazardo gave up George Springer 's three-run homer in the seventh inning, and the Mariners lost to the Toronto Blue Jays 4-3 on Monday night in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series.

There were two emotions possible for M's fans when Game 7 of the ALCS concluded: euphoria or despair. Unfortunately, they got smacked with the latter.

Three days after Mariners fans in Seattle booed George Springer after a pitch hit him on the knee, the Blue Jays star got a measure of revenge.

Seattle Mariners manager Dan Wilson reflects on Seattle’s heartbreaking ALCS loss and calls the defeat “a tough one to swallow.”

The Mariners couldn’t muster a run the rest of the way after Springer’s blast, leaving Seattle dealing with the heartbreak of a series collapse that ended in a 4-3 Game 7 defeat. Seattle’s loss also understandably left Raleigh emotional.

The American League Championship Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners will be decided once and for all in a Game 7 on Monday at Rogers Centre, and the winner will go on to play the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series.

Seattle Mariners right-hander Bryce Miller will start Game 5 of the AL Championship Series against the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday while All-Star Bryan Woo will be available out of the bullpen.

The Seattle Mariners are one of the four teams in baseball to make it to the Championship Series this year. Seattle built its team in a few different ways, addi