Six months of grinding to qualify for the meaningful games of the seventh are over and this Toronto Blue Jays season spent walking through a dream continues, with the chance to push back the awakening deep into October.

Finally, even Alejandro Kirk had to scream, shout and celebrate. With the biggest swing of his career and the biggest moment of the Blue Jays' season, Kirk was the star of the show as Toronto clinched the American League East for the first time since 2015.

The only only other remaining race of note is in the American League East. The Yankees and Blue Jays are tied atop the division going into the final day, with major implications at play. Both teams have locked up postseason spots, but the division winner gets a bye and home-field advantage through the ALCS.

For 103 days the Blue Jays have had at least a share of first place in the American League East, their bid for a last-to-first season surviving all manner of stops, starts and tests.