“They say you need the bounces to win the World Series.
They weren’t talking about this.
Toronto’s Addison Barger drove a baseball so hard that it lost consciousness in the ninth inning of Game 6 Friday night. Instead of bouncing off the left-centre wall, or bouncing against it, it found a nice little crevasse and took a nap. “
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The phrase Game 7 at the Rogers Centre seems all too common this postseason for the Toronto Blue Jays.
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“When Game 5 arrived Wednesday, and the local fans settled in to watch the Dodgers impose familiarity, the Blue Jays took the lead before they could text their agents.
Davis Schneider, the 28th-round draft choice who was signed by John Schneider, the unrelated scout who is now his manager, led off because George Springer is hurt. He wasn’t going to let Blake Snell impose his patterns and build his sequence. He let it rip when he saw the fastball coming, and the ball landed in the leftfield stands, a fan catching Snell’s pitch before catcher Will Smith could. Two pitches later, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (Montreal, Que.) did the same thing. The Blue Jays handed a 2-0 lead to a 22-year-old who, 16 months ago, was pitching East Carolina to an NCAA regional upset of Wake Forest. Trey Yesavage had already faced the Dodgers once, without trauma. This time he struck out 12 of them in seven innings and got 23 swings and misses. “
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Canadian Baseball Network writer Tyson Shushkewich writes that a strong trade deadline performance by Toronto Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins has helped spark the team’s postseason success.
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The Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-2 in Game 4 of the World Series on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium to even the series at two games apiece. Canadian Baseball Network columnist Mark Whicker offers his take on the game.
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“Game 3 was like an orphan, or maybe an old CD player left in the yard, for scavengers. Six baserunners were nabbed at second, third or home. The Blue Jays lost a run because home plate Mark Wegner, faced with calling either a ball or a strike on Daulton Varsho, decided to call a ballike or a strall or something in between, and Bo Bichette got picked off because he couldn’t tell.”
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Toronto Blue Jays’ World Series Game 1 starter Trey Yesavage and closer Jeff Hoffman are East Carolina University graduates. They share their East Carolina pride with national team alum and current Fieldhouse Pirates coach Lee Delfino. Bob Elliott has the story, as well as the details about the Blue Jays’ 11-4 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 of the Fall Classic.
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Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew’s latest “But What Do I Know?” column discusses Addison Barger, the 1992 World Series parade, Ernie Clement, Josh Naylor and Eric Lindros.
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Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto got stronger as the game went on in his complete-game, 5-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 2 of the World Series on Saturday.
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“Questions we never thought we’d ask kept popping up through the artificial garden of Rogers Centre after Game One.
If Alejandro Kirk is going to keep smacking home runs, can the Blue Jays get him a Home Run Jacket that fits?
Can Freddie Freeman, last year’s World Series MVP and perhaps the steadiest hitter in baseball, remember how?
Should we scout the Dunedin Blue Jays and other Florida State League teams to find the featured pitcher in next year’s World Series?
There were others, but only 24 hours ago the only question was if the Dodgers’ parade route would be kept secret, the better to frustrate ICE agents. Now that Toronto has thrashed the Dodgers, 11-4, nobody is sure of anything. It’s worth noting that Yoshihuru Yamamoto pitched a complete game last time out, and is working Game Two for the Dodgers, and a team with a lifetime of postseason experiences should have little trouble clearing its head. But it’s more about the Blue Jays, and their unwillingness to serve as the scenery. “
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Ian Wilson, of Alberta Dugout Stories, takes a look at some of the players that honed their skills with Dodgers’ and Blue Jays’ farm teams in Alberta before earning World Series rings.
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Toronto Blue Jays infielder Ernie Clement has won his first Fielding Bible Award.
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Thirty-two years ago today, Toronto Blue Jays slugger Joe Carter belted the second walk-off, World Series-winning home run in major league history. It’s an unforgettable moment in Canadian baseball history - one that wouldn’t have happened, as Canadian Baseball Network editor-in-chief Bob Elliott recounts in this 2015 article, if Carter had signed with the Kansas City Royals, as the outfielder almost did at the 1992 winter meetings.
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The Toronto Blue Jays’ 4-3 win over the Seattle Mariners in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series on Monday was the most watched baseball game ever broadcast on Sportsnet.
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Bob Elliott spoke with several of the Toronto Blue Jays players from the 1992 and 1993 World Series-winning teams during the game last night in which the current Blue Jays beat the Seattle Mariners 4-3 to advance to this year’s Fall Classic.
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Where does George Springer’s dramatic, three-run Game 7 home run last night rank among the greatest all-time Toronto Blue Jays postseason home runs? Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew attempts to answer this question.
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Five Toronto Blue Jays players have been named American League Gold Glove Award finalists.
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On the 10th anniversary of Jose Bautista’s “bat flip” home run in Game 5 of the Toronto Blue Jays’ American League Division Series against the Texas Rangers, we thought we would re-run this story originally published on April 4, 2016.
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“Seven years ago the Los Angeles Dodgers and Milwaukee Brewers were in this same place.
The National League Championship Series would start in Milwaukee. Those Brewers had Brandon Woodruff, Corbin Burnes and Josh Hader on the mound. Christian Yelich was the Most Valuable Player. Ryan Braun was a former MVP. Lorenzo Cain was a state-of-the-art centre fielder.
In no way were they underdogs.”
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