You could watch these Blue Jays and be convinced they are about to go either way — stay a high-end contender or fluctuate again downward.

On a cool, rainy day in April of 2002, I was visiting with Don Mattingly on his farm in Evansville, Ind., for a book I was writing, “Pride of October,” on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and George Springer each drove in a run, and eight Toronto pitchers shut down the New York Yankees in a 5-2 victory that sent the Blue Jays to the American League Championship Series for the first time in nine years.

After Aaron Judge tied the game with a three-run home run, Jazz Chisholm Jr. gave the Yankees their first lead of the series, 7-6, when he ripped a knee-high fastball off the side of the second deck in right field for a solo home run in the fifth.

The Toronto Blue Jays have a chance to do something in the ALCS against the Seattle Mariners that hasn't been done since 1996.

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