Toronto Blue Jays dominated in Game 5, forcing the series back to Kansas City, where the Kansas City Royals won 4-3 to return to the World Series for the second year in the row. Royals will face the National League champion, New York Mets in Game 1 on Tuesday in Kansas City.
Check out the scorecard (you can view the detailed version on the MLB site):
Timeline according to US News (local time):
11:25 p.m.
The Royals are headed back to the World Series for the second straight year.
After a 45-minute rain delay, Lorenzo Cain hustled to score from first base on Eric Hosmer's single in the eighth inning and the Royals held on for a 4-3 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 6 of the AL Championship Series.
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Toronto threatened in the ninth. With closer Wade Davis pitching, Russell Martin led off with a single to center, and pinch-runner Dalton Pompey stole second base on the next pitch and later took third on a ball in the dirt. Kevin Pillar walked with no outs, but Davis got two strikeouts and then a groundout from MVP candidate Josh Donaldson to punch Kansas City's World Series ticket.
The Royals will host the Mets in Game 1 on Tuesday night.
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10:50 p.m.
The Blue Jays and Royals resumed Game 6 of their tense AL Championship Series after a 45-minute rain delay with the score 3-all in the bottom of the eighth inning.
It's the second rain delay Kansas City has endured this postseason, and the first didn't turn out well. Houston went on to win the opener of their divisional series.
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10:05 p.m.
Just minutes after Jose Bautista's two-run homer in the eighth inning knotted Game 6 of the AL Championship Series 3-all, a heavy rain began falling at Kauffman Stadium.
The game was delayed with Kansas City coming to bat in the bottom half.
The Royals were five outs away from a champagne shower and a return to the World Series when Bautista hit his second homer of the game to left field off Ryan Madson.
It's the first multihomer game for the Blue Jays in their postseason history.
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9:50 p.m.
Jose Bautista keeps hitting big home runs for the resilient Blue Jays.
Bautista lined a two-run homer to left field off Royals reliever Ryan Madson with one out in the eighth inning to tie Game 6 of this AL Championship Series 3-3.
It was Bautista's second homer of the game. He clobbered a solo shot off starter Yordano Ventura in the fourth.
Madson allowed the homer with closer Wade Davis warming in the bullpen.
Bautista's homer in the seventh inning of Game 5 in the division series helped Toronto hold off elimination and beat Texas.
The home run came after the Royals added an insurance run in the bottom of the seventh on Alex Rios' RBI single off Aaron Sanchez. The damage might have been worse for Toronto if not for left fielder Ben Revere's leaping grab at the wall on Salvador Perez's flyball and a diving stop at second base by Ryan Goins.
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9:10 p.m.
The Royals are three innings away from their second straight American League pennant.
Yordano Ventura lasted into the sixth and Kelvin Herrera stranded an inherited runner on second base to leave Kansas City with a 2-1 lead over the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 6 of their AL Championship Series.
The big question now is whether the Blue Jays can rally against Kansas City's bullpen.
Herrera has been dynamic most of the postseason, and manager Ned Yost indicated he could use star closer Wade Davis for two innings if the game - and the series - was on the line.
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8:10 p.m.
The Royals' Yordano Ventura had retired 10 straight Blue Jays before Jose Bautista launched a solo shot over the bullpen in left field to get Toronto within 2-1 in the fourth inning.
Ventura was working from the stretch to keep in rhythm, and his approach appeared to be working. He threw 17 of his first 20 pitches for strikes, and had four strikeouts - all with a nasty curveball - over the first four innings.
The Royals had jumped to a 2-0 lead on homers by Ben Zobrist and Mike Moustakas
The game started at 8:07 p.m. ET. The stadium is, as usual, packed with thousands of people.
Before the tie, the Royals were leading with a 3-1 score against the Jays. Everything changed when David Price stepped into the plate. Read an updated LIVE coverage of the scores here at CBC News.
Coincidentally, it is the same day when Joe Carter, a retired Major League Baseball player, scored an amazing game-winning home run. He is both excited and ecstatic that his former team is playing in the ALCS. Joe Carter did an amazing job in bringing his team to victory in a do-or-die game against the Philadelphia Phillies.
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