Toronto tightened its grip on the AL’s Best Record race, moving two steps closer to home-field advantage for the playoffs for just the fourth time in franchise history. With a four-game cushion over Detroit and a favorable finish, the Jays own their destiny in the final stretch as the magic number drifts toward clinching scenarios.

The chase revolves around seven wins by Toronto or losses by rivals to clinch the league’s best record, six to seal the AL East, and three to lock a playoff berth. A potential Friday night clinch looms, though debates persist after a Jays-Royals clash lands on Apple TV while fans crave Sportsnet.

Cal Raleigh capped a late-season power surge, belting his 55th and 56th homers to pass Mickey Mantle’s 54 for the season’s top switch-hitter mark. A milestone that cements Raleigh as a rare lefty-power source and ties Seattle’s push to baseball lore.

64 years after Mantle’s blast, Carl Yastrzemski watched from left field while his grandson Mike—then with Kansas City—watched Raleigh’s feat from the same corner. The moment threads lineage and history, reminding fans how baseball history travels through generations.