The last time the Toronto Blue Jays lost a Game 1 of the American League Championship Series, Jeff Russell was the winning pitcher for the Oakland Athletics and Dennis Eckersley earned the save. The Blue Jays went on to take that 1992 ALCS in six games and go on to beat the Atlanta Braves to win Canada's first World Series.
This, then, is the task for the Blue Jays: Come back from trailing 0-1 to the Kansas City Royals, who last year swept the Baltimore Orioles in the ALCS to win the American League pennant.