Unlike the Dodgers' sweep, the Blue Jays return home today to even the score, sending the American League Championship game against the Mariners into a best-of-seven series. For the fifth time in franchise history, the team that swept a four-game series in the League Championship Game will face the team that won the seventh game to advance to the World Series. However, the latter team won the World Series the previous four times, with 16 of those wins coming in 18 games, a huge difference.

The Mariners became the eighth team in franchise history to play five division series and seven league championship games. The Blue Jays became the sixth team to tie a home game after losing the previous two, and only two of the previous five teams won in the G7.