Just yesterday, or so it seems, I looked up to see the Seattle Mariners were up two-games-to-none on the Toronto Blue Jays in the ALCS, and I thought, "Well, what do you know, the Mariners look like they're finally going to get to a World Series," because when you win the first two games of a series in the other guy's house, that's how you're inclined to think.
Well, this morning I blinked, and suddenly the series is knotted up at two games apiece. This is because the Jays raked the Mariners 8-2 last night out in Seattle, one night after raking them 13-4, also in Seattle.
You can take this to mean the Friendly Confines are no longer located on the north side of Chicago. In this series, at least, they're wherever the other team's ballpark is.
In Toronto, after all, the Mariners won the first two games by an aggregate score of 13-4, winning 3-1 in Game 1 and blowing out the Jays 10-3 in Game 2. Then the series headed west, and now the Jays have returned the favor, abusing the Mariners 21-6 in Games 3 and 4.
You can imagine the reaction in Toronto and Seattle.
In Toronto: "Oh, sure, NOW you decide to play."
In Seattle: "Oh, sure, NOW you decide not to play."
At any rate, so much for home-field advantage, which seems to become more mythical by the hour these days. The home crowd can bring all the noise and hostility it wants, it seems, but it can't throw a baseball past (in Toronto) Cal Raleigh and Jorge Polanco, or (in Seattle) Vlad Guerrero Jr. and George Springer.
So it's a 2-2 series now, with Game 5 set for tonight in Seattle. Which means you can again imagine the reaction in Toronto and Seattle.
In Toronto: "Yay! One more game in the beautiful Pacific Northwest!"
In Seattle: "Crap! You mean we're home AGAIN?"
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