After six thrilling matchups, the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays are headed to a winner-takes-all showdown Monday night at Rogers Centre -- with a World Series trip on the line.

On Monday night, almost exactly a decade later, Springer hit a go-ahead, three-run shot that ended up being an ALCS-clinching blast.

It was the only the third go-ahead homer in the seventh inning or later in a Game 7 in postseason history, joining Pittsburgh Pirates ’ Hal Smith in the 1960 World Series and Washington Nationals’ Ho...