The Toronto Blue Jays superior to the World Sequence on Monday by defeating the Seattle Mariners and successful the American League pennant.
The Blue Jays survived the American League Championship Sequence on their dwelling discipline by taking a winner-take-all Recreation 7, 4-3, to make the franchise’s first World Sequence berth since 1993 and arrange a matchup in opposition to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The pivotal second got here within the backside of the seventh inning with Toronto trailing 3-1. With runners on second and third base with one out, George Springer crushed a sinker from Mariners pitcher Bryan Woo 381 toes to the left-center discipline stands for a lead that will not be relinquished.
As a result of Toronto completed with a greater regular-season report, it’ll have home-field benefit for the World Sequence, beginning with internet hosting Recreation 1 on Friday and Recreation 2 on Saturday.
The Dodgers gained two of the three video games the groups performed this season in early August.
“It takes a lot work and perseverance to get so far, and I like this complete group,” Blue Jays supervisor John Schneider mentioned postgame. “It is so becoming —backside of our order will get it achieved once more. There’s in all probability no different particular person on planet Earth that I would like up apart from George Springer and his October magic.”
Solely eight gamers on Toronto’s 40-man roster have been alive when the workforce final made the World Sequence in 1993, when it gained a second consecutive title. The championships have been adopted by 21 consecutive seasons with out a lot as a playoff berth.
Together with their postseason return in 2015, the membership has made the playoffs 5 of the final 10 years however by no means damaged by to win the pennant till this season, when it gained 94 video games — a 20-win enchancment over 2024 — underneath supervisor John Schneider.
They started the postseason by beating the New York Yankees within the divisional sequence, then opened the ALCS by instantly falling into an 0-2 gap. Wins in Seattle evened the sequence, as did one other in Recreation 6, by which Toronto staved off elimination because of Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s sixth dwelling run of the postseason, a franchise report.
The Blue Jays are the primary workforce for the reason that 1996 Yankees to lose the primary two video games at dwelling of a best-of-seven sequence, solely to in the end win the sequence.
