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After a slow start (6-for-40 in his first 10 games), Mookie Wilson came alive when he returned to Boston for the first time since the 1986 World Series. Mookie went 9-for-14 with four runs scored and an RBI in the Jays' three-game sweep at Fenway Park. From there, they travelled to Baltimore to face the first place Orioles.
He made his professional debut for the Gulf Coast League Blue Jays that season, hitting .191 with two home runs and five runs batted in (RBI) in 11 games. [4] Pompey spent 2011 with the Gulf Coast League Blue Jays and Bluefield Blue Jays. Overall, he played in 60 games and hit .239 with five home runs, 17 RBI, and 23 stolen bases. [4]
Ace's jersey number is double zero. A second blue jay mascot, named Junior, is present on "Junior Jays days", usually Saturdays home games, when children are invited to run the bases after the games. Junior's number is 1/2 (half). Affiliate team the Dunedin Blue Jays are represented by DJay the Blue Jay; [26] he was named BJ in 1998. [27]
The Toronto Blue Jays came into existence in 1976, [7] as one of two teams slated to join the American League for the following season, via the 1977 Major League Baseball expansion. Toronto had been mentioned as a potential major league city as early as the 1880s and been home to the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball team of the International League ...
The mascot's name is baseball slang for a team's top starting pitcher (the "ace" of the staff, such as former Blue Jays pitcher Roy Halladay). In 2004, Ace became the sole mascot of the team after Diamond was removed by the Blue Jays prior to the start of the season. In 2011, Blue Jays fans were introduced to his younger brother Junior (see below).
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.
He gave up a walk-off home run to Joe Carter of the Toronto Blue Jays in the sixth game of the 1993 World Series, which gave Toronto a World Series championship win over the Phillies. Williams' career went into decline afterward, although he played in parts of three more major league seasons.
The Blue Jays would win the game 7–6 to extend their winning streak to 9 games. [20] Kawasaki, at 32 years of age, became the oldest player in Blue Jays' history to hit his first career home run, one year older than Ken Huckaby. [21] Kawasaki was optioned back to Triple-A Buffalo on June 26 when Jose Reyes was activated from the disabled list ...