“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.”
Read MoreToronto 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.
Read MoreThe Western Canadian Baseball League’s Fort McMurray Giants have named Omar Rosado their new pitching coach.
Read MoreTom McKenzie spent more than two decades as a middle infielder and manager in the Intercounty Baseball League, earning 18 all-star selections - a league record unlikely to be matched. This past Saturday, the Kitchener Panthers legend was inducted into the Ontario Baseball Hall of Fame.
Read MoreThe Junior National Team opened their Monday doubleheader with a 3–1 win over the San Francisco Giants.
Read MoreCanadian Baseball Network writer Tyson Shushkewich takes look at who might pitch out of the bullpen for Canada at the 2026 World Baseball Classic.
Read MoreCanadian 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.
Read MoreLos 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.
Read MoreBob Elliott catches up with former Houston Astros GM Ed Wade and former Astros scouting director Bobby Heck who selected George Springer in the first round of the 2011 MLB draft.
Read MoreThe Junior National Team was back in action after four consecutive rainouts, continuing its Dominican Fall Instructional League schedule with a 12–5 loss to the San Francisco Giants.
Read More“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. “
Read MoreIan 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.
Read MoreThe Intercounty Baseball League’s Welland Jackfish have signed manager Brian Essery to a three-year contract extension.
Read MoreThis year’s World Series, which begins tonight at 8 p.m. E.T. at Rogers Centre, will feature the Toronto Blue Jays and ALCS MVP Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (Montreal, Que.) facing off against reigning World Series MVP Freddie Freeman and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Canadian Baseball Network editor Kevin Glew provides a rundown of the Canadian content on the Blue Jays and Dodgers.
Read MoreBaseball Canada is accepting bids for the 2026 Baseball Canada Women’s National Championships.
Read MoreToronto Blue Jays infielder Ernie Clement has won his first Fielding Bible Award.
Read MoreBaseball commissioner Rob Manfred said the next round of expansion could include a team from Canada.
Read MoreFor nearly a year, the “Players on the Bases Working Group”, composed of business leaders and baseball enthusiasts, has been analyzing the requirements and winning conditions for bringing Major League Baseball back to Quebec.
Read MoreThirty-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.
Read MoreThe 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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