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He played with the Buffalo Bisons until September 1, when he was called up by the Blue Jays. [25] Pompey played in eight games for the Blue Jays in 2016, mostly as a pinch runner. He scored three runs and stole two bases. [23] He was added to the Wild Card roster but did not play in the game. [26] Pompey was not on the Division Series roster ...
On September 1, Kawasaki was recalled by the Blue Jays. [43] He appeared in 23 games in 2015, and batted .214 with 2 RBI. [44] Though Kawasaki did not play in the Postseason, he was invited to travel with the team and was present for every Postseason game in the Blue Jays' dugout. He became a free agent at the end of the season. [45]
On September 30, with the Jays trailing 3–1 to the Orioles, Mookie Wilson singled in a run, and eventually came around to score the winning run in the Jays' division clinching game. [24] The Jays returned to the postseason for the first time since 1985, [25] but were handily defeated by the heavily favored AL champion Oakland Athletics in the ...
It remains the highest scoring game in World Series history. Game 6 in Toronto saw the Blue Jays lead 5–1, but give up 5 runs in the 7th inning to trail 6–5. In the bottom of the 9th inning Joe Carter hit a one-out, three-run walk-off home run to clinch the series, off Phillies closer Mitch Williams. This is the only time in the history of ...
The Blue Jays' former radio play-by-play announcer, Tom Cheek, called every Toronto Blue Jays game from the team's inaugural contest on April 7, 1977, until June 3, 2004, when he took two games off following the death of his father—a streak of 4,306 consecutive regular-season games and 41 postseason games. Cheek later died on October 9, 2005 ...
The name "Blue Jays" came about in 1976, when the team held a "name the team" contest, which involved more than 4,000 suggestions. [33] 154 people suggested the name "Blue Jays" and Dr. William Mills, a periodontist from Etobicoke, was selected from a draw as the grand winner. Mills stated that it was traditional for a Toronto-based sports team ...
The plan was for Reyes to then be called up on June 27 when the Blue Jays begin a 4-game series against the Boston Red Sox, [42] however it was later reported that Reyes would be called up one day earlier. [43] Reyes went to Tampa Bay on June 25, rather than going to New Hampshire and was present in the dugout, despite not being able to play.
Joe Carter's 1993 World Series home run was a baseball play that occurred in Game 6 of the 1993 World Series on October 23, 1993, at SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.In the bottom of the ninth inning Joe Carter hit a one-out, three-run walk-off home run off Philadelphia Phillies closer Mitch Williams to give the Toronto Blue Jays its second consecutive championship.