The Toronto Blue Jays reached their first World Series since 1993 after beating the Seattle Mariners in the deciding game seven of the American League Championship Series.<\/p>\n
Trailing 3-1, outfielder George Springer hit a three-run home run in the seventh inning as the only Canadian franchise in Major League Baseball (MLB) won the best-of-seven series 4-3 and will now face the Los Angeles Dodgers, who are the defending champions, in the ‘Fall Classic’.<\/p>\n
“I’m just so happy for our team, our city, our country,” said Springer, a star of the Houston Astros team that won the 2017 World Series. “This is such an unbelievable moment.”<\/p>\n
Springer has now hit 23 post-season home runs, the third most in history behind Manny Ramirez (29) and Jose Altuve (27).<\/p>\n
“There’s probably not another person on planet Earth that I want up in that moment other than George Springer with his October magic,” said Blue Jays manager John Schneider.<\/p>\n
Seattle, who had led the series 2-0 and 3-2, remain the only MLB franchise never to appear in a World Series.<\/p>\n
Mariners manager Dan Wilson said “there’s no question that it’s going to sting” following his side’s defeat at Toronto’s Rogers Centre, but praised their efforts this season.<\/p>\n
“It’s a special team. It’s a shame that we had to come out on the wrong side of this one,” he added.<\/p>\n
Toronto won the World Series on both previous visits in 1992 and 1993, and will host the Dodgers in game one on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Blue Jays reached their first World Series since 1993 after beating the Seattle Mariners in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-240512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}