"It's all come down to this. After 161 games of regular season baseball, the 162nd game will be the deciding factor on whether or not the Toronto Blue Jays are champions of the American League East. It will also be the determining factor on whether or not the Blue Jays finish with the best record in the American League since 1993."
"Some will say, winning the league and being the best team after 162 games is almost a better measure of how good your team is, than actually winning a World Series. After all, baseball is a marathon, not a sprint and the MLB postseason, despite lasting over a month, is certainly a sprint. Anything can happen in a tournament. There is so much randomness to October baseball that sometimes the best teams don't actually prevail."
The Toronto Blue Jays enter the final regular-season game one win away from clinching the American League East and achieving the best AL record since 1993. Securing the division would grant a first-round playoff bye that the franchise has never experienced under the current format. The opportunity coincides with franchise anniversaries of past division titles and underscores the rarity of such moments. Regular-season supremacy offers a strong measure of season-long performance, while postseason play remains unpredictable and prone to randomness. The final game against the Tampa Bay Rays functions as a decisive litmus test, with a win guaranteeing the top American League seed and a tied outcome relying on tiebreaker rules.
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