{"id":229006,"date":"2025-10-21T03:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/229006\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T03:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:24:07","slug":"george-springers-3-run-hr-sends-blue-jays-to-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/229006\/","title":{"rendered":"George Springer&#8217;s 3-run HR sends Blue Jays to World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO &#8212; <a data-player-guid=\"f2825eb9-ced6-3523-e6c7-7c3d7a97c892\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32078\/george-springer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">George Springer<\/a> put Toronto ahead with a three-run homer in the seventh inning and the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"0151aed9-9f11-ceae-195d-180ca603b64a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tor\/toronto-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> advanced to the World Series for the first time since 1993 by beating the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"56d60582-088f-6848-5180-1fb04440cf87\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/sea\/seattle-mariners\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Mariners<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/game\/_\/gameId\/401809289\/mariners-blue-jays\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">4-3<\/a> in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first go-ahead homer in Game 7 history when a team trailed by multiple runs in the seventh inning or later.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jays will host <a data-player-guid=\"04a76996-4a5c-456d-8022-a9d45e3ff933\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/39832\/shohei-ohtani\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shohei Ohtani<\/a> and the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"fb7cf413-5156-9fc2-abe0-2273b89f70db\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/lad\/los-angeles-dodgers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> in Game 1 on Friday night when the World Series comes to Canada for the third time. The defending champion Dodgers swept Milwaukee in the NLCS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO &#8212; George Springer put Toronto ahead with a three-run homer in the seventh inning and the Toronto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-229006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}