Blue Jays fans gear up for playoff opener

Let’s begin with the American League, since at this writing (Wednesday afternoon, October 7), that league’s division-series field is set, while we still await the result of the National League wild-card matchup between the Cubs and Pirates. He is (a baseball fan).

Members of the Blue Jays gather before a team workout at the Rogers Centre in on Tuesday. “It’s just been a long time coming”.

The AL appears to be on a crash course for a Royals versus Blue Jays championship series. The Jays return to the postseason for the first time since they won the World Series in 1993. Which doesn’t seem like very good news for the Pirates at all.

CATCHERS (2): Russell Martin, Dioner Navarro. “He was the guy taking me from Puerto Rico to the Dominican, Florida, Arizona, flying here and there, getting me this trainer, so I wouldn’t be here without him”, said the Jays pitcher. The sluggish first half was expected, but Daniels must have seen something in his team, which led to his decision to deal for Hamels.

That’s the fun of divisional-series baseball.

“I think we’ve come up with a good game plan, just being aggressive”, Gallardo said. By the end of the night, the crowd had turned ugly, booing the home team. The West Division champions will counter with Yovani Gallardo. The Blue Jays also have the best lineup in the major leagues.

The city so resonated with Stewart that he donated money and spent time volunteering to feed a turkey dinner to the homeless at a Toronto chapter of the Salvation Army – the day before his 1993 ALCS Game 6 start. The Blue Jays hit 232. 500 when a strike ended the 1994 season. “I remember being on the visiting side this year in Seattle, looking around and going, ‘If only this place could fill up”.

The Expos faded badly after that and moved to Washington following the 2004 season. Ever since ripping off 14 wins in 15 games in the middle of the summer, the Blue Jays haven’t looked back.

But unlike in Montreal, where attendance dropped precipitously, the Blue Jays had enough decent seasons to keep fans interested.

Details about subsequent games will be shared closer to the date of the games.

That ballpark, originally called SkyDome, was quite a spectacle when it opened in 1989 with its hotel and retractable roof.

It’s been a while since there was a postseason game in Toronto.

From several dynamics at Rogers Centre in Toronto to how exactly Texas should attack Price in Game 1, Grant zooms on five key areas of this series that are certain to play a few kind of role in this ALDS, including why the Rangers might be better equipped to beat the Blue Jays now than they were before in 2015.

As the Leafs go through a rebuild, players can appreciate the fervour around the Blue Jays and hope they can one day do the same thing, even beyond the excitement they created by making the playoffs in 2013. “You see the support we’ve gotten on the road”.

It was Anthopoulos who helped engineer the team’s drive to a division title this year.

David Price will take the mound for the Blue Jays, since he joined the team in a trade with the Detroit Tigers at the trade deadline; Price has gone 9-1 with a 2.30 ERA in 11 starts. The Blue Jays have the best offense in baseball, and a starting rotation that has been unbelievable down the stretch. But the team finished 78-84, six games below. They just missed becoming the first team since 2009 to score 900 runs, and their total of 891 was 127 more than anyone else.

“For a guy who throws so hard, he still locates”, said Gibbons.