The Seattle Mariners needed a sensational effort from ALCS Game 1 starter Bryce Miller on Sunday after a 15-inning marathon in ALDS Game 5 on Friday.

They got exactly that. Miller allowed a leadoff home run to George Springer on his first pitch of the game. He didn’t allow another run across six sterling innings to lead Seattle to a 3-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 1 of the ALCS in Toronto.

The win silenced a Rogers Centre crowd that spent last week in a frenzy as Blue Jays bats pounded Yankees pitching in the ALDS. That energy carried into the first inning Sunday, when Springer hit his solo blast to give Toronto a 1-0 lead en route to a 27-pitch first frame for Miller.

But Miller didn’t wilt.

He settled in and needed just 49 pitches to get through the next five innings, extending a start that wasn’t expected to go that long and certainly didn’t seem likely to after the first frame. Miller got through the third, fourth and fifth innings without allowing a baserunner and stayed in the sixth after issuing a two-out walk to cleanup hitter Addison Barger.

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Miller got out of the frame with a lineout from Alejandro Kirk. With that, the once-frenetic Toronto crowd was reduced to a murmur.

Behind Miller’s outstanding effort, Seattle’s bats did just enough to take control.

In the sixth inning, MVP candidate Cal Raleigh picked up where he left off from a sensational ALDS in which he hit .381 with a home run and four RBI. With Toronto holding a 1-0 lead and starter Kevin Gausman one out away from six shutout innings, Raleigh launched a no-doubt homer over the right-field bullpen and deep into the bleachers to tie the game 1-1.

Gausman walked Julio Rodríguez on the next at-bat, and his night was done.

Reliever Brendon Miller was called upon to secure the final out of the frame. He threw a wild pitch that allowed Rodríguez to advance to second, and then Julio scored on a Jorge Polanco single, giving the Mariners a 2-1 lead.

That was all the runs they would need, though Seattle added one more in the eighth, again off the bat of Polanco.

Seattle’s bullpen, which was exhausted in Friday’s epic 3-2 win over Detroit in Game 5 of the ALDS, followed Miller with three scoreless innings. Gabe Speier, Matt Brash and closer Andrés Muñoz each threw a scoreless frame to close out the game and secure the victory.

In total, Miller and three Mariners relievers combined to limit a Blue Jays team that averaged 8.5 runs in the ALDS to that single run. They did so while throwing 100 total pitches. In the process, the Mariners stole home-field advantage in the best-of-seven series.

The Blue Jays will look to even the series at home on Monday in Game 2 (5:15 p.m. ET/Fox, FS1)