An 11-year-old Blue Jays fan was more than willing to skip trick-or-treating to attend Game 6 of the World Series on Halloween Night. (Credit: Mike Rudichuk)
Ronan Rudichuk thought he would be watching Game 6 of the World Series between the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers on TV like everyone else who wasn’t able to score a ticket.
But what the 11-year-old Jays fan didn’t know was that while he was making plans to go trick-or-treating before tuning in Friday night, his family had secretly planned to take him to the Rogers Centre in person.
The moment Rudichuk received the news was captured on video as he spoke with his grandfather, Dave Rudichuk, who lives in Edmonton.
“I’m not spending $3,000 to go see a baseball game,” Rudichuk told his grandfather vehemently, referring to the tickets that have been re-selling for thousand of dollars after they went on sale last week.
“What if I spent $3,000 and took you to the baseball game?” asked his grandfather.
“I would go,” Rudichuk answered.
“Well…you’re going,” his grandfather responded to Rudichuk’s disbelief.
“What!?” the 11-year-old says.
After learning Game 6 fell on Halloween night, the young Jays fan does express some regret knowing that his trick-or-treating plans have been foiled, but he makes a quick recovery.
“It’s OK. I’ll skip Halloween,” he says to his family’s laughter. “Let’s go!”
Rudichuk’s grandfather flew into Toronto for the game and the two even made it on the jumbotron with a selfie they took from the 500 level.
It was a full circle moment of sorts for Rudichuk’s father, Mike, who attended a World Series game with his dad the last time the Jays were in the Fall Classic in 1993, when the Jays won it all in Game 6.
“It was an interesting family moment,” he said. “Everything kind of lined up. I mean, if we won it in Game 6, it would have been pretty poetic.”
The Jays lost the game Friday night despite a wild bottom of the ninth inning, when a ball hit by Addison Barger became lodged between the warning track and the padded wall for a ground-rule double.
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“When he got home this morning, he said, ‘Dad, I gotta throw my clothes in the wash.’ Because I guess he said he was jumping up and down when Barger made that hit, he spilled all his ice cream and pop all over himself, and his clothes were all filthy now. So, he had a blast,” Mike said.
The Jays have one more chance to end their 2025 MLB season with a World Series win tonight. Toronto has never played in a Fall Classic that’s gone the distance.
As for missing out on trick-or-treating, Mike says his son was “OK” with sacrificing Halloween.
“Halloween will come around next year. Jays in the World Series may not.”